For 10 points, name this American literary critic who wrote The Western Canon.
This critic has contrasted "Marlovian cartoons" with the characters of Shakespeare, claiming that Faulconbridge the Bastard is Shakespeare's first great character, and that his originality lies in his talent for foregrounding and his characters' penchant for self-overhearing. He argued that the Pentateuch is partially based on a document which was written by a woman as a literary, rather than a religious, work in The Book of J. The influence of Jewish mysticism on the criticism of this self-identified gnostic is apparent in his Kabbalah and Criticism.  More famously, he championed purely aesthetic criticism over the so-called "school of resentment" in one work, and he adopted Lucretius' idea of the clinamen in his examination of how writers swerve from their predecessors in The Anxiety of Influence. For 10 points, name this American literary critic who wrote The Western Canon.
This critic has contrasted "Marlovian cartoons" with the characters of Shakespeare, claiming that Faulconbridge the Bastard is Shakespeare's first great character, and that his originality lies in his talent for foregrounding and his characters' penchant for self-overhearing.
Harold Bloom