Language in time of revolution
by Harshav, Barbara, Harshav, Benjamin
fromContraversions (Stanford, Calif.)
Harold Bloom is our greatest living literary critic. His wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism (The Visionary Company), explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another (Agon, The Anxiety of Influence), wrestled w…
Hailed as our era's most profound theorist of literary influence, Harold Bloom's own influence on the landscape of literary criticism has been decisive. His wide-ranging critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism, explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one…
Harold Bloom's own influence on the landscape of literary criticism has been decisive. His critical writings have plumbed the depths of Romanticism, explored the anxiety caused by the influence of one generation of poets on another, wrestled with the idea of a literary canon, an…
"Einstein ... Shylock ... Rothschild ... Trotsky ... Jesus. The scientist and philosopher ... the greedy money-lender and middle man ... the impoverished immigrant ... the elite of politics and high finance ... the prophet ... the revolutionary. All of these have been faces of t…
"Examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western Christendom lagged well behind those of eastern Christendom and the even more impressive Jewries of the Islamic world. As West…
