The anatomy of Bloom : Harold Bloom and the study of influence and anxiety / Alistair Heys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heys, Alistair, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bloom, Harold--Criticism and interpretation.

Bloom, Harold.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Bloom's Gnosis

The Scene of Instruction

Bloom and Derrida

Bloom and De Man

Bloom and New Historicism

Bloom and Judaism

Bloom and Protestantism.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-255) and index.

ISBN:

9781441177636

1441177639

9781441183460

1441183469

9781628926828

1628926821

9781441167163

1441167161

OCLC:

883568868