Map of Misreading - Couverture rigide

Bloom, Prof. Harold

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195018745 ISBN 13 : 9780195018745

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1975

Synopsis

Bloom, Harold. A Map of Misreading. New York, Oxford University Press, 1975. 8°. 206 pages. Original Hardcover (original cloth with original dustjacket). Signed by Bloom on the titlepage. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of wear to the dustjacket. In which Bloom applies to specific poems the techniques first adumbrated in The Anxiety of Influence. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Includes the following chapters: Introduction - A meditation upon misreading / Part I - Charting the Territory - 1. Poetic origins and final phases / 2. The dialectics of poetic tradition / 3. The primal scene of instruction / 4. The belatedness of strong poetry / Part II - 5. The Map - The Map of misprision / 6. Testing the Map - Browning's Childe Roland / Part III - Using the Map - 7. Milton and his precursors / 8. In the shadow of Milton / 9. Emerson and influence / 10. In the shadow of Emerson / 11. In the shadow of the shadows: for now //

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceives it, means that there are no texts, but only relationships between texts. Bloom discusses British and American poets including Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Warren, Ammons and Ashbery. A full-scale reading of one poem, Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," represents this struggle between one poet and his precursors, the poem serving as a map for readers through the many versions of influence from Milton to modern poets. For the first time, in a new preface, Bloom will consider the map of misreading drawn by contemporary poets such as Ann Carson and Henri Cole. Bloom's new exploration of contemporary poetry over the last twenty years will illuminate how modern texts relate to previous texts, and contribute to the literary legacy of their predecessors.

Revue de presse

"The sincerity of this book...the sheer care for poetry which governs both this work and its predecessor, is unmistakable and most impressive."--The New York Review of Books

"Bloom is the most rare of critics. He has what seems to be a totally detailed command of English poetry and its scholarship.... Because of his entirely gripping theoretical passion his readings are almost unparalleled in skill and thematic nuance."--The New York Times Book Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0195018745
• ISBN 13: 9780195018745
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible