The Anatomy of Bloom - Harold Bloom and the Study of Influence and Anxiety

Here at last is a comprehensive introduction to the career of America''s leading intellectual. The Anatomy of Bloom surveys Harold Bloom''s life as a literary critic, exploring all of his books in chronological order, to reveal that his work, and especially his classic The Anxiety of Influence , is best understood as an expression of reprobate American Protestantism and yet haunted by a Jewish fascination with the Holocaust. Heys traces Bloom''s intellectual development from his formative years spent as a poor second-generation immigrant in the Bronx to his later eminence as an international literary phenomenon. He argues that, as the quintessential living embodiment of the American dream, Bloom''s career-path deconstructs the very foundations of American Protestantism.>

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• Authors: Alistair Heys, Dr. Alistair Heys, Heys Alistair
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2014
• EAN: 9781441183460
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-8346-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General