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The Saving Lie
Agata Bielik-Robson
其他書名
Harold Bloom and Deconstruction
出版
Northwestern University Press
, 2011-03-30
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction
Social Science / Jewish Studies
ISBN
0810127288
9780810127289
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qzKag6WPD2EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 constant quarrel with itself. Yet, this is precisely the image of "life-in-antithesis," which constitutes Bloom’s highest speculative achievement, she observes.
The Saving Lie
brings all these "Blooms" together and, despite their own tendencies toward dissociation, lets them speak
unisono:
in one almost harmonious voice that will clearly utter the principles of a new speculative position—Bloom’s antithetical vitalism. This study of Bloom and his contributions will not soon be surpassed.