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The author "completes" his precursor's work, retaining its terms but meaning them in a new sense, "as though the precursor had failed to go far enough". The word tessera refers to a fragment that, together with other fragments, reconstitutes the whole; Bloom is referring to ancient mystery cults, who would use tessera as tokens of recognition. [3]
The theory of anxiety of influence is a theory applied principally to early nineteenth century romantic poetry. Its author, Harold Bloom, maintains that the theory has general applicability to the study of literary tradition, ranging from Homer and the Bible to Thomas Pynchon and Anne Carson in the 20th and 21st century.
"Layla and Majnun" (Persian لیلی و مجنون) is the third poem of the classic of Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209, Ganja). [1] [2] This poem is included in "Khamsa" and was written in 1188 in Persian.
Leyli and Majnun (Azerbaijani: Leyli və Məcnun, لیلی و مجنون) is an epic poem written in Azerbaijani by the 16th-century poet Fuzuli.The poem, written in the form of a mathnawi (rhyming couplets), tells the story of a young man named Qays who falls in love with a girl named Leyli and earns the nickname "Majnun" (lit.
I Can't Think Straight is a 2008 British romantic drama film directed by Shamim Sarif.Based on Sarif's 2008 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding when a turn of events causes her to have an affair, and subsequently fall in love, with another woman, Leyla, a British Indian.
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The quote about why she chose to be a prosecutor, despite racism in the criminal justice system. “I knew quite well that equal justice was an aspiration. I knew that the force of the law was ...
Bloom contributes three of the four interpretive chapters of the work. In the first, "On Christian and Jew: The Merchant of Venice", Bloom first outlines how an early 17th-century audience would have thought of Venice as a successful republic that, in its success, substitutes Biblical religion for a commercial spirit as the subject of men's passions; in this way, it was a precursor to modern ...