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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Harold Bloom"”.
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Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom
… (1975), and Kaballah and Criticism (1975), Harold Bloom's theory of the "anxiety of influence" has engendered more ambivalence than serious investigation into his theory and its influences. In part, the ambivalence is due to Bloom's persona, which irritates the academic "left" and "right" …
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<i>Metaphasia</i>: Shelley and the Language of Remoter Worlds
… entity within the mythological hierarchy of what Harold Bloom has characterized as a "mythopoeic trilogy" (36). Concurrently, I examined the ongoing debate concerning Shelley's influences, as well as the early formation of his personality, as it pertains to the poems in question, and his …
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Metaphasia: Shelley and the Language of Remoter Worlds
… entity within the mythological hierarchy of what Harold Bloom has characterized as a "mythopoeic trilogy" (36). Concurrently, I examined the ongoing debate concerning Shelley's influences, as well as the early formation of his personality, as it pertains to the poems in question, and his …
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Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Relationship
… I will rely on in many ways follow the stages Harold Bloom outlines in Anxiety of Influence. Gellhorn's work exposes a stage of influence that Bloom does not describe-which I term collaborative. By looking at Hemingway's influence in Gellhorn's writing the difference between traditional …
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The question of value: Reading Stephen King in a literary context
… of scholarly elitists, including renowned critic Harold Bloom, vehemently condemned the National Book Foundation's decision to offer such a prestigious award to a popular fiction writer like King. I contest, however, that popular writing is not always unintelligent or inartistic and that King's …
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Die vloedbos sal weer vlieg
… van 'n tematiese indeling van die teks. Harold Bloom se benadering in A map of misreading word gevolg ter bevestiging van digterlike identiteit. My motivering tot die skryf va poësie word voorts geanaliseer aan die hand van Paul Ricoeur se teorie vir narratiewe hoop, Passion for the …
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John Barth's later fiction : intertextual readings, with emphasis on Letters (1979)
… notions of authorship as developed by Harold Bloom, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Culler,to end with Jacques Derrida's signature theory. Bibliography: p. 340-356.
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All done by mirrors: reflectivity in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75)
… theory, drawing on and adapting the work of Harold Bloom, Roman Ingarden, Michael Riffaterre, Linda Hutcheon and Patricia Waugh, among others, to describe and account for the bare style and the high degree of referentiality. Seven kinds of "reflectivity" are proposed, with special attention …
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Footnotes to Coleridge: A Genealogy of Theology and Literature
… to Coleridge: T.S. Eliot, Owen Barfield, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hill. I identify in this lineage of poet-theologians a tacit dispute that turns on competing interpretations of Coleridge’s theory of the imagination: particularly what it means to say the imagination is ‘incarnational’, …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… scholarship (e.g. Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Paul de Man) as well as French theory (e.g. Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida) and other traditions (e.g. Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur, and Lionel Trilling) to challenge new instrumentalizing …
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Out of Order
… The theory draws heavily on the work of Harold Bloom (ch. 2). The heart of the dissertation is chapter 3, which can be considered a microcosm of the dissertation as a whole. The chapter deals with an expressive structure in the work of Rameau, a kind of distance from the present which …
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Open Silence: An Application of the Perennial Philosophy to Literary Creation
… The section then delineates the factors Harold Bloom considers necessary for the creation of strong work and considers how the intended creative project may fulfil these requirements. Finally, 'Intentions' presents those creative, mythic and symbolic 2 Word count includes title page and …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
… rhetoric of the New Critics and its antagonists—Harold Bloom, Walter Jackson Bate, Northrop Frye, and Roy Harvey Pearce to mention only a few—reveals that the recent alternatives to the New Criticism are really not substantially different from it at all. A destructive reading of Bate, Bloom, …
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Wordsworth's Decline: Self-editing and Editing the Self
… on the work of Susan Wolfson, Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom, I argue that Wordsworth’s revisionary practices are motivated by an agonistic process best described as “autobiographical anxiety” or the “‘anxiety of influence’ turned inward.” Ultimately, I conclude that Wordsworth’s decline was the …
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Snow and window: archetypes of imagination
… and more recent theoretical works by Harold Bloom, Michael Riffaterre, Owen Miller, Roland Barthes, Jonathan Culler, Jacques Derrida, and other scholars serve as the conceptual framework for this approach. Five main intertextual relations are explored. The recurring metaphorical image …