The Anxiety of Influence and Misreading
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A prominent psychoanalytic literary theory positing that strong poets suffer from the paralyzing fear that precursors have left nothing new to say, driving them to engage in creative misreadings (misprision) to clear imaginative space.
| Field | Literature & Literary Theory |
|---|---|
| Level of analysis | Micro · Individual |
| Paradigm | Psychoanalysis Hermeneutics |
| Key figures | 👤 Harold Bloom (해럴드 블룸) |
| Year | 1973 |
Key Claims
Harold Bloom modeled literary history as an agonistic Oedipal family romance. Great writing emerges from ‘the anxiety of influence’—the terror that one is merely belated. To achieve original mastery, strong writers execute defensive revisionary ratios to deliberately misread and transform their forebears.
Further Reading
- Bloom, H. (1973). The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. Oxford University Press.
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