{"product_id":"the-saving-lie-agata-bielik-robson-9780810127289","title":"The Saving Lie: Harold Bloom and Deconstruction","description":"Harold Bloom is our greatest living literary critic. His wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism (\u003ci\u003eThe Visionary Company\u003c\/i\u003e), explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another (\u003ci\u003eAgon, The Anxiety of Influence\u003c\/i\u003e), wrestled with the idea of a literary canon (\u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e), introduced Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to America (\u003ci\u003eDeconstruction and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e), and explored the relationship between religion, especially Judaism, and literature (\u003ci\u003eKabbalah and Criticism, The Book of J\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBloom is indeed a party of one, a truly strong poet of his own mode of religious-literary criticism, who, in a typically Emersonian manner, makes his own circumstances and sheds influences by incorporating them into his idiosyncratic theory.In this unprecedented full-length study on Harold Bloom, Agata Bielik-Robson explores the many facets of Bloom's critical writings and career. In his work, she argues, Bloom draws on a variety of disparate traditions--Judaism, gnosis, Romanticism, American pragmatism, and Freudianism, but also, especially recently, Victorian aestheticism--that comprise a dialectical, difficult whole in a constant quarrel with itself. Yet, this is precisely the image of \"life-in-antithesis,\" which constitutes Bloom's highest speculative achievement, she observes. \u003ci\u003eThe Saving Lie \u003c\/i\u003ebrings all these \"Blooms\" together and, despite their own tendencies toward dissociation, lets them speak \u003ci\u003eunisono: \u003c\/i\u003ein one almost harmonious voice that will clearly utter the principles of a new speculative position--Bloom's antithetical vitalism. This study of Bloom and his contributions will not soon be surpassed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Agata Bielik-Robson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810127288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810127289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Agata Bielik-Robson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453402394879,"sku":"9780810127289","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_93c54d9b-c910-4828-9137-c17ba9b3afc1.jpg?v=1777300030","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-saving-lie-agata-bielik-robson-9780810127289","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}