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Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
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- Harold Bloom
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- Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
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