Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 34 IS - 3 T2 - Critical Survey SP - 1-17 ID - bbbm172 T1 - "Harold Bloom and William Shakespeare The 'Saints of Repetition' and the Towers of Babel" AU - Sakhkhane, Taoufiq PY - 2022 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Elaborates rationale for reception of Harold Bloom’s critical works Western Canon and Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human, noting works' “anxiety of decentring Shakespeare, or fear of de-Westernisation.” Assumes that part of logic behind reception and disagreement stems from “modalities of reception of the Bard” and desire to resituate Shakespeare studies within “complex congeries of power relations.” English summary, 1. ER -