Apophrades, Adonais, and the return of the Shelleys
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2010-04
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Allen, Graham
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Manchester University Press
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This chapter returns to Harold Bloom’s theory of the anxiety of influence, and in particular his notion of apophrades. It does so in the context of a reading of P. B. Shelley’s elegy to John Keats, Adonais. The chapter argues that Bloom’s version of apophrades elides the uncanniness possessed by the original Greek concept; an uncanniness exploited within Shelleys’ own poetry.
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Harold Bloom , P. B. Shelley , Mary Shelley , Romantic studies , Literary theory
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Allen, Graham; (2010) 'Apophrades, Adonais, and the Return of the Shelleys' In: Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears (eds). Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press