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Harold Bloom is our greatest living literary critic. His wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism (__The Visionary Company__), explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another (__Agon, The Anxiety of Influence__), wrestled with the idea of a literary canon (__The Western Canon__), introduced Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to America (__Deconstruction and Criticism__), and explored the relationship between religion, especially Judaism, and literature (__Kabbalah and Criticism, The Book of J__). Bloom is indeed a party of one, a truly strong poet of his own mode of religious-literary criticism, who, in a typically Emersonian manner, makes his own circumstances and sheds influences by incorporating them into his idiosyncratic theory.In this unprecedented full-length study on Harold Bloom, Agata Bielik-Robson explores the many facets of Bloom’s critical writings and career. In his work, she argues, Bloom draws on a variety of disparate traditions—Judaism, gnosis, Romanticism, American pragmatism, and Freudianism, but also, especially recently, Victorian aestheticism—that comprise a dialectical, difficult whole in a cons

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Author

Agata Bielik-Robson

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810127869

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction