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28 Feb 2012, 7:23 am
Here, with a hilarious Harold Bloom quote. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 6:08 pm
”From “Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89/Called the most notorious literary critic in America, Professor Bloom argued for the superiority of giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka” (NYT).ADDED: From Bloom’s “The Western Canon”:What Johnson and Woolf after him called the Common Reader still exists and possibly goes on welcoming suggestions of what might be read. [read post]
8 May 2010, 5:11 pm
Harold Bloom: Shylock is such a powerful character that he makes the antisemitism of the Merchant of Venice worse. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 11:47 am
But the beauty of “The Weight” isn’t solely in the lyrics, which are almost surrealistic, or in the music. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 5:59 am
The Atlantic has collected all its author interviews on one handy page, featuring discussions with authors, poets and critics like Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Jonathan Franzen, Richard Wilbur and Harold Bloom. [read post]
15 May 2015, 1:37 pm
I couldn’t care less," said Harold Bloom, asked by Time Magazine whether he "anticipate[s] flak" because his "new book, The Daemon Knows, features 12 American writers touched by genius – only one of whom is a woman. [read post]
24 Sep 2017, 11:28 am
Harold Bloom, in the The Anxiety of Influence, argued that the key to understanding any great artist is the struggle (or “agon”) that is going on between the new woman and her precursor, that shadowy presence/absence that you love and hate, Oedipally, and must ultimately overcome. [read post]
3 Jul 2010, 7:31 am
Harold Bloom, the curmudgeonly Shakespeare critic, once said that every pathology Sigmund Freud is said to have discovered can be found first in Shakespeare. [read post]
5 May 2009, 1:16 pm
Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence is a theory of ambivalence that "strong poets" feel toward influential predecessors and techniques successors use to fight resulting anxiety of influence. [read post]
9 Sep 2009, 7:25 am
(Harold Bloom: Read books. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 9:02 am
As Harold Bloom opined in a recent podcast, there are more great books out there than you can possibly read in a lifetime, so you have to make choices. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 8:30 am
As a younger writer and graduate student, my views on influence were shaped by Harold Bloom's "The Anxiety of Influence" and "A Map of Misreading. [read post]
19 May 2011, 1:45 pm
Their moment in the sun is quite over nowsadly and I think Harold Bloom is embarrassed that it ever happened. [read post]
20 May 2015, 8:17 am
Holmes’s Emersonian writings, in particular his dissents, fall within the theoretical framework of agonism, which Harold Bloom refers to as a revisionary and Emersonian “program. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:36 am
But this is close to what those original artists were doing too — the artist’s great struggle, the critic Harold Bloom argues, is confronting and overcoming the influence of predecessors. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 12:17 am
” By contrast, Harold Bloom characterized Fenichel as the “grim encyclopaedist of... [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 9:14 am
Or, failing that, Harold C. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 11:48 am
"From Harold Bloom, "The Western Canon" (which I'm reading on the occasion of Bloom's death).Looking up the Amazon link for that, I came across "The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon" (publication date November 5, 2019). [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 10:59 am
I don't suppose many people would count Love's Labor's Lost as their favorite Shakespeare play (though Harold Bloom seems more or less besotted with it, and Harley Granville-Barker thought he saw possibilities in it). [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 7:07 am
This process of precedent-making in a common-law system resembles the construction of the literary canon as it is conceived by Harold Bloom and Richard Posner. [read post]
