SLSL Intro "It Had to Do with Language"

[arthur bryant]

--- Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi>
wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for what you've done already, Dave.
> 
> One thing that has always puzzled me a bit is:
> why doesn't TRP bring up _The Recognitions_ here?
> 
> Robert Coover for one has named Bellow and Gaddis
> the two big influences of mid-50s.
> 
> And it is arguably easier to see the presence of
> _TR_ in _V._ than in any of Coover's books.
> 
> Anxiety of influence?

"Any adequate reader of this book, which means anyone
of some literary sensibility who is not a commissar or
an ideologue, Left or Right, will see that
influence-anxiety does not so much concern the
forerunner but rather is an anxiety achieved in and by
the story, novel, play, poem, or essay." 
	
"Anxiety is a mode of melancholy...the dark and
daemonic ground."

Harold Bloom _The ANxiety Of Influence_





Arthur

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