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A Map of Misreading

A Map of Misreading

A Map of Misreading
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A Map of Misreading Paperback - 2003 - 2nd Edition

by Bloom, Harold

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The second volume in Bloom's series of works which reveal his theory of revisionism, "A Map of Misreading" demonstrates his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems.

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Oxford University Press, 5/15/2003 12:00:01 A. paperback. Very Good. 0.7087 8.4646 5.4331.
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  • Title A Map of Misreading
  • Author Bloom, Harold
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York
  • Publication date 5/15/2003 12:00:01 A
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0004006616
  • ISBN 9780195162219 / 0195162218
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.61 x 5.55 x 0.57 in (21.87 x 14.10 x 1.45 cm)
  • Size 0.7087 8.4646 5.4331
  • Reading level 1390
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, English poetry - Explication
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002193068
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.009
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Book

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In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of imagery in poems represent both a response to and a defense against the influence of precursor poems. Influence, as Bloom conceives it, means that there are no texts, but only relationships between texts. Bloom discusses British and American poets including Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Warren, Ammons and Ashbery. A full-scale reading of one poem, Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," represents this struggle between one poet and his precursors, the poem serving as a map for readers through the many versions of influence from Milton to modern poets.

For the first time, in a new preface, Bloom will consider the map of misreading drawn by contemporary poets such as Ann Carson and Henri Cole. Bloom's new exploration of contemporary poetry over the last twenty years will illuminate how modern texts relate to previous texts, and contribute to the literary legacy of their predecessors.

About the author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, author of more than twenty books including The Anxiety of Influence, The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Book of J, and the forthcoming Genius.
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