A Family Romance-Northrop Frye and Harold Bloom: A Study of Critical Influence

boundary 2 ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Steve Polansky
Slavic Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenifer Presto

Drawing on contemporary critical theory, as well as on the works of a wide variety of Russian modernists, Jenifer Presto discusses the ways in which the symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok responded to what Edward Said has termed the modernist “crisis of filiation.” This essay contends that despite the fact that Blok was consecrated as one of the poetic sons of Russian modernism, he envisioned modern poetic history as a violent family romance that involved murderous impulses not just, as Harold Bloom would suggest, toward his literary forefathers, but also toward his imagined children. Although Blok's complicated reaction to the appearance of a new generation of children has received far less critical attention than that of the futurist Vladimir Maiakovskii, it is Blok—not Maiakovskii—who can be credited with inaugurating a filicidal model of poetic creativity that would come to dominate the more radical flank of Russian modernism, the avant-garde. By examining Blok's resistance to progeny within the larger context of Russian modernism, this article reveals the existence of an antigenerative male poetic tradition that extends from Blok to the futurists, reflecting the writers' growing sense of rupture with the past in the period leading up to and immediately following the revolution.


2019 ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Altamir Celio de Andrade

Este artigo examina as narrativas bíblicas sobre Sara e Rebeca. Essas personagens, presentes no Livro do Gênesis, são referenciais para se pensar o deslocamento espacial como indicativo de mudanças internas. O Gênesis inicia as páginas de uma obra clássica, emblemática influenciadora do pensamento ocidental, como alertaram Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye, Robert Alter e Harold Bloom, dentre outros. Ainda que essa Escritura seja tradicionalmente compreendida como um conjunto de vozes masculinas e patriarcais, as mulheres que aparecem em suas linhas desempenharam importantes ações, garantindo a inauguração e manutenção de genealogias dos povos bíblicos em suas dimensões espaciais e simbólicas. A investigação proposta se deixará guiar pelos conceitos de exílio e deslocamento, utilizados contemporaneamente no contexto dos estudos literários, culturais e filosóficos, sobretudo a partir de Emannuel Lévinas, Stuart Hall e Jean-Luc Nancy. Portanto, pode-se adiantar que o estudo do comportamento dessas duas personagens, bem como de suas estratégias de sobrevivência, permite compreender o deslocamento dos seres humanos em todos os tempos e em diversas partes do mundo. O sofrimento, a astúcia e as identidades de Sara e Rebeca permitem reler a história do antigo Israel de forma vívida, estética e empolgante.


1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-202
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
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PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 5252 (1919) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan C. Elms
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2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Herman Westerink ◽  
Philippe Van Haute

Although Freud's ‘Family Romances’ from 1909 is hardly ever discussed at length in secondary literature, this article highlights this short essay as an important and informative text about Freud's changing perspectives on sexuality in the period in which the text was written. Given the fact that Freud, in his 1905 Three Essays, develops a radical theory of infantile sexuality as polymorphously perverse and as autoerotic pleasure, we argue that ‘Family Romances’, together with the closely related essay on infantile sexual theories (1908), paves the way for new theories of sexuality defined in terms of object relations informed by knowledge of sexual difference. ‘Family Romances’, in other words, preludes the introduction of the Oedipus complex, but also – interestingly – gives room for a Jungian view of sexuality and sexual phantasy. ‘Family Romances’ is thus a good illustration of the complex way in which Freud's theories of sexuality developed through time.


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