Harold Bloom (Routledge Revivals) - Towards Historical Rhetorics

Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States. This large body of work has, since the publication of The Anxiety of Influence in 1973, increasingly distanced itself from all critical vogues, be they psychoanalytic, post-structuralist or new formalist, in favour of a highly idiosyncratic poetic theory. First published in 1988, this title was the first to engage with this unique approach in order to extend and amplify its most crucial insights about the nature of rhetoric, as it functions both in poetry and in poetic theory. The underlying argument is for a historical conception of rhetoric, for an extension of Bloom's 'diachronic rhetoric' towards historical rhetoric.

List of contents

Editor’s Foreword; Part I 1. Introduction 2. Influence 3. Misreading 4. Tropes 5. Diachronic Rhetoric; Part II 6. History of Rhetoric 7. Rhetoric of History; Index

About the author

Peter de Bolla

Product details

• Authors: Peter de Bolla
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2014
• EAN: 9781138778962
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77896-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Discourse Analysis, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language: history and general works