On The Construction Of Harold Bloom's Literary Theory

In the contemporary world,Harold Bloom is an American renowned literature critic,one of the main representatives of the Yale School.His literary theory consisted of romantic poetry review,misprision theory,religious studies and the study of canon.His literary theory have a wider range of influence in the moment.But now in the domestic,there is still a lack of overall research about Harold Bloom's literary theory.This paper try to find the core of Harold Bloom's literary theory construction,by analyses Harold Bloom's misprision theory and the canon theory.In the misprision theory,firstly,Harold Bloom refuted the traditional ideal relationship of the poet,abandoned the past people think of the inherit and harmonious relationship during poets.He put forward a point of view that,in fact,there conduct a most courageous fight against during poets.Belatedness are in the midst of the anxiety of influence,this anxiety from the precursor.To get rid of this anxiety,the strong started a confrontation to the precursor,by the power of misprision.In fact,misprision is the process of the fight during strong.In the study of canon,firstly,Harold Bloom express concern to the prevalence of cultural studies in the field of contemporary literature and impetuous social environment.Because of this kind of concern,Harold Bloom attach importance to the work of canon in literature.Canon is the result of the fight during strong.Understand literary canon is a process of find the lonely nature of the inner will.The ideal object of canon is the strong part of reader.The most obvious characteristic of Harold Bloom's literary theory is content diversity,involved in a number of parts during literary activities.And the other is his personal language in theory,when express ideas,he used to take advantage of metaphor and allusion.All these characteristics manufacturing difficulties in understand his theory.In the past,concern about he is one of the main representatives of the Yale School,people put his theory in deconstructionism,but this is wrong.Harold Bloom himself published many articles to attack deconstructionism.At the same time,Harold Bloom's literary theory has so many difference about traditional literary theory.This is a puzzle that have no answer.But,by virtue of the method of two important part in Harold Bloom's literary theory,misprision theory and the canon theory,described above,we can find a phenomenon.Also we still cannot finish the qualitative about Harold Bloom's literary theory,we can actually find some core in his theory.Harold Bloom care about man in literary activities,not all of them,just the little part of strong.Strong person in literary have speculative ability,knowledge and talent,these make them resist to the suppression from the former generation's heritage on their own.They establish its own status through misprision and produce.This could promote the spread and development of literature.This tendency shows that by put strong in the core,Harold Bloom finish his literary theory,he care about individual and elite.