Alan Rawes, Jonathon Shears

Reading, writing and the influence of Harold Bloom (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading, writing and the influence of Harold Bloom takes the work of the world's best-known living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read 'with', 'against' and 'beyond' his ideas.

The editors, Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears, introduce the collection by assessing the impact of Bloom's brand of agonistic criticism on literary critics and its ongoing relevance to a discipline attempting to redefine and settle on its collective goals. Firmly grounded in, though not confined to, Bloom's first specialism of Romantic Studies, the volume contains essays that examine Bloom's debts to high Romanticism, his quarrels with feminism, his resistance to historicism, the tensions with the 'Yale School' and his recent work on Shakespeare and genius. Crucially, chapters are also devoted to putting Bloom's anxiety-themed ratios into practice on the poetry of Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and D. H. Lawrence, amongst others.

The Harold Bloom that emerges from this collection is by turns divisive and unifying, marginalised and central, radical and conservative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LSU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526186027
• Artikelnr.: 72294039

Autorenporträt

Alan Rawes is Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. Jonathon Shears is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Jonathon Shears and Alan
Rawes Reading With Bloom 1. Keats and his 'Composite Precursor[s]' in The
Fall of Hyperion Alan Rawes 2. The Decline of America: Bloom's Monumental
Theory of History . Alistair Heys 3. 'Continuity in the self': Wordsworth,
Byron, Bloom Jonathon Shears 4. The Blooming of Hamlet James Soderholm
Reading Against Bloom 5. The Limits of 'perfect solipsism': Bloom's Map and
the Origins of Shelley's Dejection Sally West 6. Apophrades, Adonais and
the Return of the Shelleys Graham Allen 7. Towards a Feminist Revisionism
of an Aesthetics of Mastery: Harold Bloom, neo-Romanticism and the Critical
Sublime Mary Orr 8. Childe Roland's Literate Despair Andrew M. Stauffer
Reading Beyond Bloom 9. Superscriptions of Bliss: Influence and Form in the
Poetry of Lawrence David Duff 10. How to Live with the Infinite Regress of
Strong Misreading Paul H. Fry 11. 'The strong dead return': The
Transgressive Shades of Bloom's Daemon Julian Wolfreys 12. The
Impossibility of Reading: Bloom and the Yale School of Criticism Arthur
Bradley Index