Abstract
From one point of view, art is a matter of influence and criticism, as Harold Bloom suggests in The Anxiety of Influence. Each poet, that is, each "maker," works under the influence of antecedent arts. In creating a new work, the artist reduces the parent work and expands it to a new meaning. As Bloom puts it, "The meaning of a poem can only be another poem," and the two poems are never the same. Every new poem, Bloom continues, is "misinterpretation, … is anxiety of influence, is misprision, is a disciplined perverseness," or, in other words, it is "contraction and expansion; for all the ratios of revision are contracting movements, yet making is an expansive one." Bloom's theory of poetry may aptly be applied to the making of literature into film.
Recommended Citation
Barasch, Frances K.
(1979)
"Revisionist Art: Macbeth on Film,"
University of Dayton Review: Vol. 14:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/udr/vol14/iss1/4
