biography
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Literary critic and educator, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Yale (PhD), where he joined the faculty in 1955. He overturned the humanistic view of literary tradition in The Anxiety of Influence (1973). Consistently arguing against deconstruction and most other recent schools of criticism, he developed the theory of ‘antithetical criticism’, which claims that literature itself is an act of criticism. Consistently provocative, his work includes 20 books on the Romantic and modern poets, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and theology. |
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