volume Number 9، number In Volume 3، Fall 2016 ، issue Number 33

Criticsm of Bloom’s theory of the Effect Anxiety in Prose Masterpieces

Fatemeh Na'naforoush, Mahboubeh Khorasani(Author in Charge), Abdolreza Moddareszadeh

Abstract
The Persian masterpieces have been investigated repeatedly and their structures have been studied from the point of view of grammar, stylistics, rhetoric, etc. What is needed in today study of Persian prose masterpieces and in the context of new researches is the investigation of these masterpieces from the point of view of new literary schools and theories.Harold Bloom’stheory of creative misreading is one of the recent theories which has had a large amount of reactions.According to this theory, every author or poet has a literary father whom is bound to impress by him. This impression creates a kind of anxiety that he creatively looks for some ways to release him from this pressure and then makes his work without this kind of anxiety.According to Bloom’s theory, there is always a kind of aggressive and dialectic relationship between late and early poets and this is the why that the late poet looks for a way to reduce early poet’s eminency and power and prevail on his authority.In this paper, it is attempted to investigate the ways of releasing from effectanxiety in some ancient Persian proses by a transient review of Persian prose masterpieces in different eras and we criticize and localize this theory in Persian prose.

Keyword
Literary criticism , Literary theory , Persian Prose , Impressionable , Harold Bloom