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A Map of Misreading
Contributor(s): Bloom, Harold Ed (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195162218     ISBN-13: 9780195162219
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $31.34  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2003
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Poetry
Dewey: 821.009
LCCN: 2002193068
Lexile Measure: 1390
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.55" W x 8.61" L (0.68 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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