false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172339630m/165081.jpg 165081 3 Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between tradition and the individual artist. Although Bloom was never the leader of any critical "camp," his argument that all literary texts are a response to those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of deconstruction and poststructuralist literary theory in this country. The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature and has sold over 17,000 copies in paperback since 1984. Written in a moving personal style, anchored by concrete examples, and memorably quotable, Bloom's book maintains that the anxiety of influence cannot be evaded--neither by poets nor by responsible readers and critics. This second edition contains a new Introduction, which explains the genesis of Bloom's thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years.criticism of the past twenty years. Here, Bloom asserts that the anxiety of influence comes out of a complex act of strong misreading, a creative interpretation he calls "poetic misprision." The influence-anxiety does not so much concern the forerunner but rather is an anxiety achieved in and by the story, novel, play, poem, or essay. In other words, without Keats's reading of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, we could not have Keats's odes and sonnets and his two Hyperions. Given the enormous attention generated by Bloom's controversial The Western Cannon, this new edition is certain to find a readymade audience among the new generation of scholars, students, and layreaders interested in the Bloom cannon. 159391 1973 The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry total:212|5:54|4:67|3:74|2:15|1:2| 212 792 348 24 1 2 false false Mon May 21 18:25:10 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 15:12:32 -0700 2007 Harold Bloom is an idiot. ]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 10 14:36:50 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 09:23:19 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 14:36:50 -0700 2008
There has always been a well of debt that can't be paid. An influence so undeniable—it ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu May 17 07:23:13 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 07:23:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 22:27:32 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 19:27:29 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 08:31:42 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 08:37:05 -0800 2008 William Shakespeare. (If only the young Bloom could have attended the anime convention I saw last weekend, wearing his favorite Falstaff costume.) What I appreciate in Bloom's idea is...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 24 08:14:29 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 07:23:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 06:20:37 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 06:22:15 -0700 2008
I love that there was a time in American criticism when you could call this practical criticism-- in chapter 5, near the end of the book, there's almost a reading of a poem by Keats. That's the first practical t...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 19 10:37:52 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 18:11:16 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 10:37:52 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Oct 13 10:30:47 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 10:56:31 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 10:59:46 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 25 16:25:55 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 16:30:28 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Fri Sep 07 22:28:57 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 22:36:29 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Dec 15 18:56:43 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 18:57:19 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1990 Thu May 03 03:09:18 -0700 2007 Thu May 03 03:09:18 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Sat Sep 15 17:37:31 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 17:39:23 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 21:24:38 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 06:35:04 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jan 01 19:36:20 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 19:36:20 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Tue Feb 26 14:43:51 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 14:44:16 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Feb 07 12:33:09 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 09 09:45:11 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Mar 29 17:13:08 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 17:20:25 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Oct 30 16:19:30 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 03 17:18:18 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=165081