Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism"In the culmination of a series that began with "The Anxiety of Influence" and "A Map of Misreading," Harold Bloom expands upon his controversial theory of revisionism, which he views as a contest of opposing artistic and moral drives. From this theoretical perspective, Bloom re-examines Freud, religious sources of literature, literary modes such as fantasy, and the sequence of American writers that includes Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and John Ashbery. A 1982 National Book Critics Circle nominee."--Back cover |
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... sense that Christianity , Judaism and Islam are religions . Gnosticism polemically is de- cidedly not a faith , whether in the Christian sense , pistis , a believ- ing that something was , is , and will be so ; or in the Hebraic sense ...
... sense that Christianity , Judaism and Islam are religions . Gnosticism polemically is de- cidedly not a faith , whether in the Christian sense , pistis , a believ- ing that something was , is , and will be so ; or in the Hebraic sense ...
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... sense , and found within their world another world , or nest of worlds ; for , the metamorphosis once seen , we divine that it does not stop . I will not now con- sider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics ...
... sense , and found within their world another world , or nest of worlds ; for , the metamorphosis once seen , we divine that it does not stop . I will not now con- sider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics ...
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... sense of the acceptable time but in the imaginative sense of “ the opportune , " of the possible image . Kairos is the weather of the mind , or the poem as fiction of duration ; within a poem it is tone or stance , or the location of ...
... sense of the acceptable time but in the imaginative sense of “ the opportune , " of the possible image . Kairos is the weather of the mind , or the poem as fiction of duration ; within a poem it is tone or stance , or the location of ...
Contents
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Revisionism and Critical Personality | 16 |
Gnosis Poetry Criticism | 52 |
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