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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... truth on this subject remains . unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intuition . That thought by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you , when ...
... truth on this subject remains . unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all that we say is the far - off remembering of the intuition . That thought by what I can now nearest approach to say it , is this . When good is near you , when ...
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... truth any more than philosophy is going to uncover any truth ; if there were poetic truth then there might be the Stevens , the Shelley , the Wordsworth . Emerson and Nietzsche and James and Pater and Wilde all teach us that the Emerson ...
... truth any more than philosophy is going to uncover any truth ; if there were poetic truth then there might be the Stevens , the Shelley , the Wordsworth . Emerson and Nietzsche and James and Pater and Wilde all teach us that the Emerson ...
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... truth to a universal . The war- rant for the truth remains personal , indeed is the true personal , the pneuma of the Gnostic , his self as opposed to his mere psyche or soul . Shall we say , against the philosophers , that Gnosis is ...
... truth to a universal . The war- rant for the truth remains personal , indeed is the true personal , the pneuma of the Gnostic , his self as opposed to his mere psyche or soul . Shall we say , against the philosophers , that Gnosis is ...
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Revisionism and Critical Personality | 16 |
Gnosis Poetry Criticism | 52 |
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