{"id":5963,"date":"2009-12-14T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2009-12-14T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:59:07","slug":"jonathan-allan-frye-and-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/12\/14\/jonathan-allan-frye-and-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Allan: Frye and Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"anxiety\"<\/p>\n

Responding to Michael Happy’s previous post<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

One wonders how Bloom and Frye would react to being positioned together as \u201cwhipping boys.\u201d The Frye-Bloom axis, as Eleanor Cook calls it, seems to be a continuous concern for those \u201cin theory,\u201d insofar as there seems to be a perpetual need to rebel against them both as though they are pushing the same agenda. Of course, this is, as any reader of Frye and Bloom knows, not true. Frye rebels against Bloom and Bloom rebels against Frye \u2014 Bloom\u2019s writing since Frye\u2019s death seems to be one long battle with Frye: The Western Canon<\/em> is Bloom\u2019s defence of value judgments; The American Religion <\/em>(1992, reprinted in 2006), Jesus and Yahweh<\/em> (2005), and, to a lesser degree, Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection<\/em> (1996), read as though they are responses to Frye\u2019s Bible books; and then, of course, there is Bloom\u2019s forthcoming book The Living Labyrinth: Literature and Influence<\/em> (2010) which originally boasted the title: Anatomy of Influence<\/em>. All of these books seem to try to position Bloom outside the shadow of Frye and yet Frye always seems to lurk in the background \u2014 perhaps, one can read Bloom\u2019s book on Hamlet as something of meditation of the theoretical self (or as an autobiography, like The Anxiety of Influence<\/em>). Of course, it would seem that Frye rebelled against Bloom as well, especially in the later years when Frye turned to the biblical texts. Despite the concerted efforts by both Bloom and Frye to distance themselves from each other, the reality is that these two literary giants are almost always seen in relation to one another \u2014 at least in terms of the history of literary criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Responding to Michael Happy’s previous post: One wonders how Bloom and Frye would react to being positioned together as \u201cwhipping boys.\u201d The Frye-Bloom axis, as Eleanor Cook calls it, seems to be a continuous concern for those \u201cin theory,\u201d insofar as there seems to be a perpetual need to rebel against them both as though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frye-and-contemporary-scholarship","category-guest-bloggers"],"yoast_head":"\nJonathan Allan: Frye and Bloom - 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