..., asking to be shut. Everything speaks in its own way. Slit. (/54) Bloom listens to the world, brings it in, speaks it. Bloom is an ad man, a con man: he writes not by creating his own text but by soliciting the texts of others. "Good idea the repetition. Same thing with ads," Bloom says, repeating what...

... and Cinderella . New York: Twayne, 1995 . Bloom, Michelle E. “Pygmalionesque Delusions and Illusions of Movement: Animation from Hoffmann to Truffaut.” Comparative Literature 52.4 ( 2000 ): 291 -320. Bourdieu, Pierre. “Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction.” Knowledge, Education...

... politics as a response to postmodernity. 4 If one compares Bloom's Closing with the older Straussian tradition of interpreting political theory from which Bloom hails, one can see quite clearly the postmodern quality: the former operates as overt fundamentalism, is littered with icons of "truth...

... . Purcell Jennifer E. “ Climate Effects on Formation of Jellyfish and Ctenophore Blooms: A Review .” Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 85 ( 2005 ): 461 – 76 . Silverstein Michael . “ Translation, Transduction, Transformation: Skating ‘Glossando’ on Thin...

... . Paris : Albin Michel , 1994 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . “ A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality .” The Social Contract and Discourses . New York : Dutton , 1950 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . Emile, or on Education . Trans. Bloom Allan . New York : Basic , 1979 . Scott...

... . Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies . Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994 . Bloom, Murray Teigh. Money of the Their Own: The Great Counterfeiters . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957 . Blum, André. On the Origin of Paper . Trans. Harry Miller Lydenberg. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1934...

... see a man: blooming, gay, vigorous, in good health; his presence inspires joy, his gaze announces contentment, well-being; he carries with him the image of happiness. Comes a letter in the mail; the happy man looks at it; it is to his address; he opens it, he reads. Instantly his appearance changes...

... . Arenas Reinaldo . Viaje a La Habana (Novela en tres viajes) . Miami : Universal , 1990 . Bloom Harold . The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry . New York : Oxford UP , 1973 . Fernández Retamar Roberto . Introducción a José Martí . La Habana : Casa de las Américas...

.... 17–86. Kojève, Alexandre. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel. Ed. Allan Bloom. Trans. James H. Nichols, Jr. Ithaca: Cornell up, 1980. Lippit, Akira Mizuta. Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric...

... of Spirit . Trans. A. V. Miller. Oxford: Clarendon, 1977 . Jakobson, Roman. On Language . Ed. Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990 . Kojève, Alexandre. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel . Ed. Raymond Queneau and Allan Bloom. Trans. James H. Nichols, Jr...

..., Gerhart. Das Ornament des Blicks . Stuttgart: Metzler, 1994 Griffith, Clark. “Poe's `Ligeia' and the English Romantics.” Edgar Allan Poe . Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985 . 71 –80. Hoffmann, E. T. A. “Elementargeist.” 1821. E. T. A. Hoffmann Werke . Vol. 4 . Frankfurt...

.... The Philosophy of the Novel:Lukács, Marxism, and the Dialectics of Form . Minneapolis:u of Minnesota p, 1984 . Bewes, Timothy. Reification, or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism . London: Verso, 2002 . Bloom, Harold. Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds . New York: Warner, 2002...

... or natural ends of sex. It is thus pointless to try to go behind sex to ask why its bloom is double. Sex is “without why.” I do acknowledge, however, that I am obliged to answer why I follow psychoanalysis in positing...

... the gift of life, the metapsycho- logical as allegory of reading. In every possible sense, translation is necessary but impossible. Melanie Klein, the Viennese psychoanalyst whom the Blooms...

...: Cambridge up, 1989 . Pateman, Carole. “Women and Consent.” Political Theory 8 ( 1980 ): 152 . Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile . Ed. and trans. Allan Bloom. New York: Basic, 1979 . Rowold, Katharina, ed. Gender and Science:Late-Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Female Mind and Body . Bristol...

... (Dec. 1979 ): 9 –24. ———. “Shelley Disfigured.” Deconstruction and Criticism . Ed. Harold Bloom, et al. New York: Seabury, 1979 . 39 –73. ———. “The Rhetoric of Blindness.” Blindness and Insight . 102 –41. Derrida, Jacques. Memoirs of the Blind . Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas...

.... Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. Jameson, Fredric. “Culture and Finance Capitalism.” Critical Inquiry 24 (Autumn 1997): 246–65. The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System. Blooming...

... . Ed. McDowell Deborah and Rampersad Arnold . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1987 . 144 – 63 . Mobley Marilyn Sanders . “ A Different Remembering: Memory, History, and Meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved. ” Modern Critical Views: Toni Morrison . Ed. Bloom Harold . New...

... The Graduate Student I Was, the Graduate Courses I Teach response or Northrop Frye and Wayne Booth. By the mid-seventies, my first sustained engagements with theory, especially the speculations of Harold Bloom and then of the so-called...

..., a series of ordeals, a long progression from elsewhere toward the beginnings of his people, toward salvation, toward a promised land, often represented as a virgin land, as a bride, as a blooming rose (duBois, History...