anxiety of influence
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Anxiety of influence is Harold Bloom’s influential literary theory concept describing how poets and writers struggle creatively under the burden of their powerful precursors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| anxiety of influence canonical | 1 |
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
aesthetic theory concept
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critical theory concept ⓘ literary theory concept ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
Romantic poets such as Keats
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Romantic poets such as Shelley ⓘ Romantic poets such as Wordsworth ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
poets
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writers ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Harold Bloom
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Psychoanalytic criticism ⓘ Romanticism ⓘ
surface form:
Romantic poetry
revisionary criticism ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | notions of purely autonomous originality ⓘ |
| coreIdea |
literary creation is shaped by a struggle with earlier influential authors
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originality emerges through conflict with tradition ⓘ strong poets experience creative anxiety in relation to powerful precursors ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
Romanticism studies
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intertextuality studies ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ poetics ⓘ |
| firstDescribedIn |
The Anxiety of Influence
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surface form:
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
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| focusesOn |
creative response to literary tradition
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relations between later poets and earlier poets ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Harold Bloom ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
agonistic struggle
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belatedness ⓘ influence-as-conflict ⓘ misreading ⓘ precursor ⓘ revisionary ratio ⓘ strong poet ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Harold Bloom ⓘ |
| hasReception |
controversial for its emphasis on agonistic influence
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highly influential in Anglo-American literary criticism ⓘ |
| influenced |
canon formation debates
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late 20th-century literary theory ⓘ poetic theory ⓘ studies of intertextuality ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ Romantic poets ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainWork |
The Anxiety of Influence
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surface form:
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
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| publicationYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
A Map of Misreading
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Poetry and Repression ⓘ The Western Canon ⓘ |
| theoreticalBasis |
agonistic model of literary history
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psychoanalytic model of Oedipal struggle ⓘ |
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