Ephebes and Precursors in Chekhov's The Seagull

Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence takes the Freudian concept of an oedipal relationship between father and son as a model for the relationship that exists when one artist, the father figure (or precursor, as Bloom calls him), influences another artist (the ephebe, in Bloom's terminology). Bloom's work provides a desirable redefinition of standard treatments of influence and stylistic change in that it offers a dynamic, rather than a static, paradigm, and denies any simplistic dissociation of the artist as historical figure from the poet as poet. Furthermore, it denies that literary influences can occur as purely verbal processes, and it affirms that the creative process is emotionally charged, like so many other important human experiences.In Anxiety of Influence Bloom states, in typically absolute terms, "Poetic Influence-when it involves two strong, authentic poets,-always proceeds by a misreading of the prior poet, an act of creative correction that is actually and necessarily a misinterpretation

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