Covert Relations: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Henry James

by Daniel Mark Fogel

Fogel raises questions about the nature of literary influence and the role and the role of gender in the responses of authors to tradition and authority. Drawing on Harold Bloom's theory of the anxiety of influence and recent critiques of Bloom by feminist critics, he suggests that Bloom's theory is less apt for some authors than for others-less apt for the Joyce-James relation, typified by Joyce's aggressive, playful, virtuoso mockery, satire, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813912806
• ISBN13: 9780813912806
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"