Bloom, H.

Japanese: Bloom,H.(英語表記)BloomH
Bloom, H.

…As if to make up for the current stagnation in the world of novels, there has been a lot of activity in the genres of poetry and criticism. James Merrill's long poem "The Changing Lights of Sandover" (1982) is the biggest recent achievement in poetry, and Harold Bloom's "Agon" (1982) is one of the achievements in literary criticism, but both are characterized by their strong influences of mysticism. The Arab critic Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" (1978) is also an excellent book of critique of civilization that explains how the West created the "Orient" that exists only in Western texts, and how it has maintained its attitude of domination based on that. …

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…現在の小説界の沈滞を埋め合わせるかのように詩のジャンルや批評のジャンルにおいては活発な動きがある。メリルJames Merrillの長詩《サンドーバーの変化する光》(1982)は詩における最近の最大の収穫であり,ブルームHarold Bloomの《アゴーン》(1982)は文学批評における成果の一つであるが,いずれも神秘思想の色が濃い点を特色とする。アラブ系の批評家サイードEdward W.Saidの《オリエンタリズム》(1978)も,西欧的テキストの中にのみ存在する〈オリエント〉を西欧がいかにして形成し,それに基づいて,いかに支配の姿勢を維持してきたかを解明した,優れた文明批評の書である。…

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