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The Virtuous Feedback Loop of Influence: Barth Reading Wallace Reading Barth
So, I just realized I probably should have posted this earlier, but here is an abstract of a paper I delivered a couple weeks ago at the 2011 Duquesne Graduate Conference, “Echoes: Across Discip… more →
The Hyperarchival Parallax
poetry is anxiety
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wrote 1 month ago: A. R. Ammons, The Art of Poetry No. 73, Interviewed by David Lehman, © 2013 THE PARIS REVIEW IN … more →
In Bloom
wrote 3 months ago: Last semester, I took an art history class on Contemporary art, in which we discussed the work of Sh … more →
Keepin' Up with the E-Flux, 3; or, Why I'm Moving to Rotterdam
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wrote 8 months ago: I wrote one of my graduate school qualifying papers on the theory of literary critic Harold Bloom, c … more →
Franck Christoph Yeznikian
wrote 9 months ago: That portion of contemporary classical music that is mainly about other music or other artworks whic … more →
Franck Christoph Yeznikian
wrote 9 months ago: (Click here for a PDF version of the text about Franck Christoph Yeznikian.) That portion of contemp … more →
Great Wizard Battles in History: Alan Moore vs Grant Morrison on the battleground of my adolescence
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wrote 9 months ago: In High School I read comics, I wouldn’t say a lot but I started picking up all this stuff by … more →
The Influence of Anxiety: Days One Hundred Sixty Five - One Hundred Seventy One
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wrote 9 months ago: Harold Bloom, an eminent literary critic, has written many books of note, but one of his his most we … more →
Lev Grossman -- they asked him anything
wrote 11 months ago: Friend of the blog Lev Grossman did an AMA on reddit tonight about his novels The Magicians and The … more →
Into the Labyrinth
wrote 1 year ago: The epigraph of Harold Bloom’s new book, The Anatomy of Influence (a continuing as well as a l … more →
Simon Jarvis, Strong Poets and Hell
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wrote 1 year ago: I was going to write something about the talking road but my eye has been caught by a passage three- … more →
The Anxiety of Authorship
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wrote 1 year ago: (Note: I’m not hating on men.) I hope I’m not the only writer experiencing anxiety. I ca … more →
Patriarchs among the poets: Harold Bloom's case for the Bible as high literature
wrote 1 year ago: Associated PressProfessor Harold Bloom speaks to an audience gathered along with Denmark's Roya … more →
Prose on trend
wrote 1 year ago: Daphne Guinness with a newspaper and The Anxiety of Influence (Photographer: Tommy Ton) This slidesh … more →
The Virtuous Feedback Loop of Influence: Barth Reading Wallace Reading Barth
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wrote 2 years ago: So, I just realized I probably should have posted this earlier, but here is an abstract of a paper I … more →
The Anxiety of the Poet-as-Male
wrote 2 years ago: At the moment I’m reading Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence (1973) with a mind tow … more →
*Joel Stein’s Edison and the Rage of Indian Americans
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wrote 2 years ago: Indian Americans, the so-called model minority, have recently been up in arms. The object of their r … more →
Harold Bloom's hero-poets
wrote 3 years ago: For reasons not obvious to me I’ve been reading and re-reading a lot of Harold Bloom’s w … more →
from harold bloom's anxiety of influence: clinamen, or poetic misprision & milton's paradise lost
wrote 3 years ago: Clinamen, which is poetic misreading or misprision proper; I take the word from Lucretius, where it … more →
