A Map of Misreading

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A Map of Misreading is a critical work by literary theorist Harold Bloom that explores how poets creatively reinterpret and transform the influence of their predecessors.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
literary criticism
non-fiction book
argues poets creatively misread their precursors to clear imaginative space
author Harold Bloom
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
focusesOn relationships between strong poets and precursors
follows The Anxiety of Influence
genre literary theory
poetry criticism
hasConcept apophrades
askesis
clinamen
daemonization
kenosis
misprision
revisionary ratios
tessera
hasForm monograph
hasTheme creative transformation of influence
interpretation as misreading
originality in poetry
struggle between poets and tradition
influenced late 20th-century literary theory
studies of poetic influence
intendedAudience advanced students of literary theory
scholars of literature
language English
mainSubject Romantic poetry
creative misreading
intertextuality
modern poetry
poetic influence
notableFor extension of ideas from The Anxiety of Influence
systematic elaboration of Bloom’s revisionary ratios
partOf Harold Bloom’s theory of influence
periodDiscussed Romantic period
modern period
publicationDate 1975
publisher Oxford University Press
theoreticalFramework Romantic theory
intertextual theory of poetry
psychoanalytic criticism

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Harold Bloom notableWork A Map of Misreading
anxiety of influence relatedWork A Map of Misreading
subject surface form: Anxiety of influence
The Anxiety of Influence followedBy A Map of Misreading
The Western Canon relatedWorkByAuthor A Map of Misreading
Poetry and Repression relatedWork A Map of Misreading