A Map Of Misreading by Harold Bloom
The book argues that reading is inevitably a creative act of misreading, in which writers and critics unconsciously revise and rival their predecessors; this process of misprision and revision produces poetic innovation, shapes literary influence, and sustains the Western canon. Through close readings of many poets and critics, it uses psychological and aesthetic concepts to show how rivalry, belatedness, and imaginative reinterpretation generate new meanings rather than simple fidelity to earlier texts.
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- 1975
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