Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar adapted this field's notion of the anxiety of influence for a landmark feminist work in it, The Madwoman in the Attic. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this field of the scholar Harold Bloom. “Close reading” may be used in this field to avoid a fallacy of making judgements based on intent.
ANSWER: literary criticism [accept literary theory or literary studies; prompt on lit crit or literature or criticism]
[10e] Similar to Bloom’s anxiety of influence, this author argued that good poets engage with the past in “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” This poet himself wrote “The Waste Land.”
ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot]
[10h] Erich Auerbach cited authors’ engagement with past works as a means to evoke this concept in a namesake magnum opus. Aristotle defines this concept as the imitation of nature in his Poetics.
ANSWER: mimesis (“my-MEE-sis”)
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