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The Unsettling Legacy of Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence

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Asha Varadharajan
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 461–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2008-012
Published: 01 December 2008
...Asha Varadharajan Harold Bloom's idiosyncratic poetic history is a perdurable cultural force with implications for our present, not just for Bloom's. His story of influence, his attention to the cultural and historical imaginary of “Europe,” can thus lend itself to postcolonial contexts equally...
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A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

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Morton W. Bloomfield
Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 105–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11-1-105
Published: 01 March 1950
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“The Scale of Perfection” and the English Mystical Tradition

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Morton W. Bloomfield
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 489–490.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-28-4-489
Published: 01 December 1967
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Piers Plowman: The C-Text and Its Poet

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Morton W. Bloomfield
Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 230–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-12-2-230
Published: 01 June 1951
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Symbolic Names in Johnson's Periodical Essays

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Edward A. Bloom
Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 333–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-13-4-333
Published: 01 December 1952
...Edward A. Bloom Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 SYMBOLIC NAMES IN JOHNSON’S PERIODICAL ESSAYS By EDWARDA. BLOOM One of the most deceptively simple of all literary practices is the metaphorical application of proper names for the delineation...
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Keats and Romanticism

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Harold Bloom
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 479–485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-25-4-479
Published: 01 December 1964
...Harold Bloom Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 KEATS AND ROMANTICISM By HAROLDBLOOM Both volumes under discussion here are monumental works,l but Bate’s is assuredly a definitive achievement, and Jack’s only a very...
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Was William Langland a Benedictine Monk?

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Morton W. Bloomfield
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 57–61.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-4-1-57
Published: 01 March 1943
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Benevolent Authoritarianism in Klaeber's Beowulf : An Editorial Translation of Kingship

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Josephine Bloomfield
Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 129–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-60-2-129
Published: 01 June 1999
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How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading

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Paul H. Fry
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 437–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2008-011
Published: 01 December 2008
...Paul H. Fry Harold Bloom in his “anxiety of influence” phase is often thought to insist on an intertextual dynamic that is ahistorical. This view might seem to be confirmed by comparison with the text of Bloom's “strong precursor,” T. S. Eliot's “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” The reason...
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On the Discrimination of Influences

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Andrew Elfenbein
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 481–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2008-013
Published: 01 December 2008
...Andrew Elfenbein Although influence remains a pervasive term in literary criticism, little has changed in its theoretical framework since the work of Harold Bloom in the early 1970s. This essay argues that adaptations of findings in cognitive and social science open up more finely nuanced means...
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Memory and Material Significance: Composing Modernist Influence

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Katherine Elkins
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 509–531.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2008-014
Published: 01 December 2008
... present, they inspire creative adaptation and forgetful recombination. This revision of influence also challenges viral theories of cultural transmission by positing a more active role for the artist. More important than Harold Bloom's anxiety of influence is an anxiety of significance emerging from...
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“Past Echoes of Cruelty and Nonsense” in Stevie Smith

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Florian Gargaillo
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 81–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-4264276
Published: 01 March 2018
... to the point of morbidity against that of finding too much pleasure in the cruel and absurd. More broadly, Smith’s allusiveness presents a significant alternative to Harold Bloom’s anxiety of influence. Her attitude toward her predecessors is not agonistic but playful, elusive, and polyvalent. She writes...
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The Argument of Ulysses, Reconsidered

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Robert Storey
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 175–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-40-2-175
Published: 01 June 1979
... (Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, 1971), p. 362. 2 “Freud on Joyce,” rev. of A Scrupulous Meanness: A Study of Joyce’s Early Work, by Ed- ward Brandabur; “James Joyce: From Stephen to Bloom,” by Sheldon Brivic (in Psychoa- nalysis and Literary Process, ed. Frederick Crews); and The Ordeal...
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Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses

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Joseph Prescott
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 427–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3-3-427
Published: 01 September 1942
... with Penelope. Following the same scheme, Joyce divides his work into three parts. The first, consisting of three episodes, describes the mrn- ing of Stephen Dedalus, the modern Telemachus. The central body of the work, beginning with the introduction of Odysseus in the person of Leopdd Bloom...
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Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens

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Frank Lentricchia
Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (1): 110–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-38-1-110
Published: 01 March 1977
...Frank Lentricchia Harold Bloom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. 293 pp. $11.95. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 110 REVIEWS matter of keeping the conscience personal, whether-as in Gide’s...
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Notes on Joyce's Ulysses

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Joseph Prescott
Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 149–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-13-2-149
Published: 01 June 1952
... also below, note on p. 580. PAGE60: “Citrons too. . . . Must be without a flaw, he said.” Part of the Jewish content of Bloom’s mind, the flawless citrons, used at the Feast of Booths, recall various precepts in Jewish lore dis- tinguishing the perfect from the imperfect fruit. Cf. Tract...
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Ulysses as Self-Help Manual? James Joyce’s Strategic Populism

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Beth Blum
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 67–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-1892726
Published: 01 March 2013
..., perhaps even reconsider, the expectations they bring to literary texts. Joyce’s popular interpreters are quick to point out those moments when he appears to encourage their moralizing approach. For instance, the narrator of “Ithaca” informs us that Leopold Bloom “himself had applied...
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Defining Influence

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Andrew Elfenbein
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 433–436.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2008-010
Published: 01 December 2008
... practice (footnoting, documenting sources, embedding arguments in larger debates), it rarely rises to the level of explicit discussion. When it does, it often takes the form of criticisms of the work of Harold Bloom, even though the perceived shortcomings of his work have long been well rehearsed...
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Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, and The Wire

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Sam Alexander
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9090293
Published: 01 September 2021
... this kind of plot-thickening in Ulysses . When the world-wandering sailor who calls himself W. B. Murphy claims to know Stephen’s father in the “Eumaeus” episode, Bloom wonders “what possible connection” there could be between the two (16.386), in an echo of Bleak House ’s most famous passage about...
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Collaborative Form: Studies in the Relations of the Arts

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Lawrence Kramer
Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (2): 285–294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-54-2-285
Published: 01 June 1993
... A rebours as Schoenberg and his author, Maurice Maeterlinck, surely had, knows that exotic flora in modern literature. Here are Leopold Bloom and Stejhm Dedalus contemplating,&om the garden of the Bloom house at no. 7 Eccles Street, Dublin, the “visible luminous sign ” of an “invisibleper- son...
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