1st Edition

Harold Bloom (Routledge Revivals) Towards Historical Rhetorics

By Peter De Bolla Copyright 1988
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Peter de Bolla