ABSTRACT Harold Bloom’s 1973 essay The Anxiety of Influence posits a poetics of ‘great poets’ who use and deny the prototype-poets and prototype-texts that influence them. Bloom’s understandings of poetic composition and reception offer a strikingly sympathetic account of much political discourse. This article focuses on the ‘Eulogy’ that Noel Pearson delivered at the funeral for Gough Whitlam in 2014, whose poetics were conspicuously informed by motives of emulation and of competitive distancing. That makes Pearson’s eulogy a particularly helpful case for testing the applicability of Bloom’s poetics in the political sphere. It also casts new light on the interrelationship between production and reception in the field of rhetoric – and, in so doing, on the importance of further research into rhetorical reception.

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影响的焦虑：诺埃尔·皮尔逊（Noel Pearson）对高夫·惠特兰（Gough Whitlam）的“致词”中的递归和遮挡

摘要哈罗德·布鲁姆（Harold Bloom）在1973年发表的论文《影响的焦虑》提出了“伟大诗人”的诗意，他们使用和否认影响他们的原型诗人和原型文本。布卢姆对诗歌创作和接受的理解为许多政治话语提供了惊人的同情解释。本文着重探讨诺埃尔·皮尔森（Noel Pearson）在2014年高夫·惠特兰（Gough Whitlam）的葬礼上发表的“悼词”，其诗意明显受到模仿和竞争距离的驱使。这使皮尔逊的悼词成为检验布鲁姆诗学在政治领域中的适用性的一个特别有用的案例。它也为修辞学领域的生产与接受之间的相互关系提供了新的视角，并以此为基础，进一步研究了修辞接受的重要性。