RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Harold Bloom : canon e influencia A1 Pérez Vázquez, Ángel K1 Historia de América K1 America-History K1 Filología K1 Philology AB This essay is intended as an introduction to some of the most important aspects of thecritical of the North American literary critic and theorist. Harold Bloom. The point of view from which these pages are written is mainly descriptive, and, to a very limitedextent, polemical as well. The essay starts by outlining Bloom's visión of the Anglo-American literary canon, as well as his main theoretical tenets and intellectual sources. The main point of focus, though, is Bloom's theory of poetic influence, which he developed in the seventies in a series of four books commonly known as his "tetralogy of influence." Also touched upon are Bloom's often controversial relations with some of the main contemporary critical movements. particularly the New Criticism and Deconstruction. PB Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones YR 1998 FD 1998 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5008 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5008 LA spa DS MINDS@UW RD 01-may-2024