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The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life, Harold Bloom

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Summary
  • Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years
  • For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result is "a critical self-portrait", a sustained meditation on a life lived with and through the great works of the Western canon: Why has influence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers found me and not others? What is the end of a literary life? Featuring extended analyses of Bloom's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, "The Anatomy of Influence" adapts Bloom's classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters. -- Back cover
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
x, 357 pages
Contents
  • The point of view for my work as a critic -- Literary love -- Sublime strangeness -- The influence of a mind on itself --
  • Shakespeare, the founder -- Shakespeare's people -- The rival poet: King Lear -- Shakespeare's ellipsis: The Tempest -- Possession in many modes: the sonnets -- Hamlet and the art of knowing -- Milton's Hamlet -- Joyce...Dante...Shakespeare...Milton -- Dr. Johnson and critical influence --
  • The skeptical sublime -- Anxieties of Epicurean influence: Dryden, Pater, Milton, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Swinburne, Stevens -- Leopardi's Lucretian swerve -- Shelley's heirs: Browning and Yeats -- Whose condition of fire? Merrill and Yeats --
  • Whitman and the death of Europe in the evening land -- Emerson and a poetry yet to be written -- Whitman's tally -- Death and the poet: Whitmanian ebbings -- Notes toward a supreme fiction of the romantic self -- Near the quick: Lawrence and Whitman -- Hand of fire: Hart Crane's magnificence -- Whitman's prodigals: Ashbery, Ammons, Merwin, Strand, Charles Wright
Isbn
9780300167603
Instance
Label
The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life
Title
The anatomy of influence
Title remainder
literature as a way of life
Statement of responsibility
Harold Bloom
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years
  • For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result is "a critical self-portrait", a sustained meditation on a life lived with and through the great works of the Western canon: Why has influence been my lifelong obsessive concern? Why have certain writers found me and not others? What is the end of a literary life? Featuring extended analyses of Bloom's most cherished poets - Shakespeare, Whitman, and Crane - as well as inspired appreciations of Emerson, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Ashbery, and others, "The Anatomy of Influence" adapts Bloom's classic work "The Anxiety of Influence" to show us what great literature is, how it comes to be, and why it matters. -- Back cover
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Bloom, Harold
Dewey number
801/.3
Index
index present
LC call number
PN81
LC item number
.B5449 2011
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Bloom, Harold
  • Literature
  • Literature
  • Authors and readers
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Literatuurkritiek
  • Beïnvloeding
  • Bellettrie
  • Literature
  • Authors
  • Reading
  • Literature
  • Litteraturanalys
  • Litteraturestetik
Label
The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life, Harold Bloom
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The point of view for my work as a critic -- Literary love -- Sublime strangeness -- The influence of a mind on itself --
  • Shakespeare, the founder -- Shakespeare's people -- The rival poet: King Lear -- Shakespeare's ellipsis: The Tempest -- Possession in many modes: the sonnets -- Hamlet and the art of knowing -- Milton's Hamlet -- Joyce...Dante...Shakespeare...Milton -- Dr. Johnson and critical influence --
  • The skeptical sublime -- Anxieties of Epicurean influence: Dryden, Pater, Milton, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Swinburne, Stevens -- Leopardi's Lucretian swerve -- Shelley's heirs: Browning and Yeats -- Whose condition of fire? Merrill and Yeats --
  • Whitman and the death of Europe in the evening land -- Emerson and a poetry yet to be written -- Whitman's tally -- Death and the poet: Whitmanian ebbings -- Notes toward a supreme fiction of the romantic self -- Near the quick: Lawrence and Whitman -- Hand of fire: Hart Crane's magnificence -- Whitman's prodigals: Ashbery, Ammons, Merwin, Strand, Charles Wright
Control code
670324843
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 357 pages
Isbn
9780300167603
Isbn Type
(hc. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2010042456
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)670324843
Label
The anatomy of influence : literature as a way of life, Harold Bloom
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The point of view for my work as a critic -- Literary love -- Sublime strangeness -- The influence of a mind on itself --
  • Shakespeare, the founder -- Shakespeare's people -- The rival poet: King Lear -- Shakespeare's ellipsis: The Tempest -- Possession in many modes: the sonnets -- Hamlet and the art of knowing -- Milton's Hamlet -- Joyce...Dante...Shakespeare...Milton -- Dr. Johnson and critical influence --
  • The skeptical sublime -- Anxieties of Epicurean influence: Dryden, Pater, Milton, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitman, Swinburne, Stevens -- Leopardi's Lucretian swerve -- Shelley's heirs: Browning and Yeats -- Whose condition of fire? Merrill and Yeats --
  • Whitman and the death of Europe in the evening land -- Emerson and a poetry yet to be written -- Whitman's tally -- Death and the poet: Whitmanian ebbings -- Notes toward a supreme fiction of the romantic self -- Near the quick: Lawrence and Whitman -- Hand of fire: Hart Crane's magnificence -- Whitman's prodigals: Ashbery, Ammons, Merwin, Strand, Charles Wright
Control code
670324843
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 357 pages
Isbn
9780300167603
Isbn Type
(hc. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2010042456
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)670324843

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