misprision
(en)
(noun; historical; law) the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony; (literary) Harold Bloom's term for when strong writers misinterpret their literary predecessors so as to clear imaginative space for themselves
the acts of creative 'misprision', or swerves from origin, which Bloom sees at work in all great poetry
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9 years ago