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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11401/78186
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degreeen_US
dc.formatMonograph
dc.format.mediumElectronic Resourceen_US
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dcterms.abstractHarold Bloom’s critical passages in The Book of J claim that Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers were in no way a product of oral tradition but of a highly literate female court author called “J”. This antagonism towards oral scholarship expressed through the fictional author J is the culmination of the development of his theory of reading, beginning from his feud with New Criticism and developed throughout his career, most famously in The Anxiety of Influence. For Bloom, what scholar of orality Walter Ong terms our culture’s “secondary orality” presents a threat to the importance he places on reading, which he attempts to protect throughout The Book of J. When faced with the positions of these two 20th century scholars a dichotomy is revealed between the latter, who sees new potential in the study of literature revealed via the study of orality, and the latter, who sees troubling implications in its reemergence in our time.
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dcterms.contributorManning, Peteren_US
dcterms.contributorPfeiffer, Douglas.en_US
dcterms.creatorSansone, John
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-03-22T22:39:15Z
dcterms.dateSubmitted2018-03-22T22:39:15Z
dcterms.descriptionDepartment of English.en_US
dcterms.extent35 pg.en_US
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dcterms.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11401/78186
dcterms.issued2017-08-01
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dcterms.subjectLiterature
dcterms.subjectAnxiety of influence
dcterms.subjectOrality
dcterms.subjectThe Book of J
dcterms.titleAnxiety of Orality: Harold Bloom’s Wages of Mortality and Literacy in The Book of J
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