TY - JOUR
TI - Reading Harold Bloom – What For and How? On Canonicality of the Critic
AU - Jarzyńska, Karina
TI - Reading Harold Bloom – What For and How? On Canonicality of the Critic
AB - The relationship between the idea of Harold Bloom’s literary canon and the status of his own critic’s oeuvre is discussed in the article. Diverse topics and literary styles cultivated by the author of The Anxiety of Influence were characterised and evaluated from the perspective of their canonicality understood as an aesthetic and social value. According to Bloom himself, the canonical texts also offer the spiritual value with help of such tools as irony and metaphor, provoking the readers to assess their own condition. The article presents the Polish reception of Harold Bloom’s texts and examines the presence of Polish literature in the Western literary canon designed by him. Its weak representation demands response of the critics who could propose their own list of literary works based on criteria equally strong as Bloom’s ones but overcoming his oftentimes colonial, patriarchal and exclusionary influence.
VL - 2020
IS - Volume 17 Issue 4
PY - 2020
SN - 2083-7658
C1 - 2353-1991
SP - 505
EP - 517
DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.20.039.13258
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/po-co-czytac-harolda-blooma-i-jak-czyli-o-kanonicznosci-krytyka
KW - literary canon
KW - Harold Bloom
KW - canonicality
KW - the anxiety of influence
KW - canon of Polish literature