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Title: A Map of Misreading by Harold Bloom ISBN: 0-19-516221-8 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
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Summary: To the Dark Tower
Comment: After shaking up the academic world with his "theoretical" "Anxiety of Influence", Bloom begins to settle into what would prove his proper mode--the discursive literary essay. "A Map of Misreading" centers upon Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (one of Bloom's touchstones for his theories) as the perfect example of the latecomer Romantic poet struggling against his precursors. It is Bloom's wonder and love of this poem that is on display here as much as "proof" of his theory.
What is most evident in all of Bloom's books, and what is most important, is an obvious passion for reading (reading anything and everything). Bloom ranges across British and American Poets to discover how poems struggle against other poems. But, frankly, what I've always come away from a Bloom book with is a map of Bloom's misreadings that are worth a college education in and of themselves. We discover Emerson afresh and hear of Dutch Psychologist J. H. Van Den Berg, discover we must encounter Hans Jonas on Gnosticism and The Kabbalah of Isaac Luria(if we're to know anything of the roots of literary struggling against the precursor) and wish we'd memorized Paradise Lost. In short, for me, he encourages continued and life-long (mis)reading.
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Title: The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom ISBN: 0195112210 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Best Poems of the English Language : From Chaucer Through Frost by Harold Bloom ISBN: 0060540419 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 16 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Harold Bloom ISBN: 157322233X Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 10 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism by Harold Bloom ISBN: 019503354X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom ISBN: 1573225142 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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