Thus, although Hardy is recognized by Bloom as one of Schopenhauer's nineteenth-century heirs, he finds Shelley to be Hardy's "true precursor," just as D. Typically, this attempt to construct an author's "true" literary genealogy involves foregrounding some influences while minimizing or excluding others. Bloom interprets Hardy in Oedipal terms familiar to any reader of The Anxiety of Influence, Bloom's well-known study of relationships among male writers. However, important essays are excluded from the volume, and Bloom's own polemical introduction expresses a somewhat romantic and one-sided interpretation of both Mayor and its author. In the case of the volume on Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, this daunting aim is indeed partially fulfilled: some of its essays do indeed represent some of the best criticism written on the novel since 1971. $19.95 AS READERS of ELT know, Chelsea House's Modern Critical Interpretations seriesÂ-151 volumes to date, all edited by Harold BloomÂ-ambitiously attempts to gather "a comprehensive collection of the best current criticism of the most widely read poems, novels, stories, and dramas of the Western World" (flyleaf). Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'. Richard Hauer Costa Texas A & M University Mayor of Casterbridge Harold Bloom, ed. Today but cannot read another page in it anywhere. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ĮLT: Volume 33:4 1990 on the sports pages of U.
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