Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism

Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

Oxford University Press, 1982 - Science - 336 pages

"In the culmination of a series that began with "The Anxiety of Influence" and "A Map of Misreading," Harold Bloom expands upon his controversial theory of revisionism, which he views as a contest of opposing artistic and moral drives. From this theoretical perspective, Bloom re-examines Freud, religious sources of literature, literary modes such as fantasy, and the sequence of American writers that includes Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and John Ashbery. A 1982 National Book Critics Circle nominee."--Back cover

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Less a contribution to Bloom's esoteric theoretical system (The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, etc.) than an essay in nervous self-classification—fascinating as such, but excruciating ...

Contents

• A Prelude to Gnosis: 3
• Revisionism and Critical Personality: 16
• Gnosis Poetry Criticism: 52

About the author

Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism; Volume 740 of Galaxy Books; Oxford paperbacks
• Authors: Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1982
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Feb 25, 2008
• ISBN: 0195029453, 9780195029451
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Science / General