On The Transformation In Harold Bloom’s Late Theory Of Influence

Harold Bloom(1930-2019)is one of the most famous and influential contemporary literary critics and theorists in the United States.As a very erudite and well-informed scholar and critic,Bloom’s poetic system is grand and full of individuality,and his poetic thoughts are profound and controversial.In his long academic career,Bloom’s theoretical construction and critical practice have experienced the romantic poetry criticism,the influence misreading theory,the western classical literature criticism and the literature reading theory,as well as the rethinking of the influence misreading theory after the 21 st century.The mutual influence between writers and texts is the core of Bloom’s poetic system construction,as well as the most personalized and influential part of his poetic thoughts.However,in Bloom’s literary criticism,the "influence" has not been fully explained and demonstrated in a positive way.In the 21 st century,"influence" has been elevated from a textual phenomenon in the process of literary creation to a poetic concept with universality and completeness,and a clear theoretical context has been constructed to realize the transformation of the theory of influence.The Anxiety of Influence and The Analysis of Influence are the main research objects of this paper.Through the comparison and analysis of his influence theory in the early and late period,this paper studies and excavates the modification and supplement of Bloom’s influence theory in the aspects of the nature of the influence,the literary expression of the influence and the relationship between the influence and the classical aesthetic standard.This paper mainly studies the turn of the influence theory from three aspects: the kernel,the content and the position of the influence criticism of Bloom’s poetics.The text is divided into three chapters: the first chapter analyzes and studies the essence,action mechanism and ideological core of "influence" from the perspective of ontology.The second chapter mainly analyzes the restatement ofromanticism in Bloom’s theory of influence,explores its literary classic characteristics-the literary expression of the sublime and the legal basis of its existence,and extracts the American sublime represented by Whitman’s poetry and Melville’s Moby Dick.The third chapter mainly explores the displacement of Bloom’s critical identity by investigating the background of the influence theory construction and the changes of the critical form.