The anguish of Prometheus

Harold Bloom has become an iconic figure in Literary Criticism in recent decades especially when he rebelled against North American academia where he saw the development of a self-centred exercise in literary criticism which often lost sight of its object of study - literary works. In defence of literature Bloom attacked the Deconstruction of his Yale colleagues as well as the theoretical fashions of recent decades such as Neo-historicism and Neo-Marxism. The Anguish of Prometheus traces common traits throughout Bloom's intellectual trajectory towards a broader theorisation on the nature of Literary Criticism and the reception of its bibliography.