...Bernard Duffey The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman . By Bloom James D. . Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press , 1984 . Pp. 7 , 216 . $24.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 204 The South Atlantic Quarterly Degree Zero, Roland...

...George Bornstein Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate . By Bloom Harold . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1977 . Pp. viii , 413 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 525 leisure (p. 166). But the two points of view...

...C. N. Stavrou Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Mr. Bloom and Nikos Odysseus C. N. Stavrou Two of the most interesting treatments of the Odysseus legend are found in James Joyce s Ulysses and Nikos Kazantzakis The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. The former was acclaimed and brought...

...James D. Bloom After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature . Edited by Jay Gregory S. Miller David L. . University, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press , 1985 . Pp. ix , 195 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book...

...James D. Bloom 102 The South Atlantic Quarterly events and the decline in Edison s patents; but expansion of publicity seems to be a reasonable enough phenomenon when one considers the broader expan­ sion of electric lighting on a national and international scale throughout Edison s lifetime...

...Edward A. Bloom Luxury: The Concept in Western Thought, Eden to Smollett . By Sekora John . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1977 . Pp. xv , 340 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 408 The South Atlantic Quarterly for England s...

..., 390. $27.50. Devotees of misreading will recall a map of misprision on page 84 of Harold Bloom s book A Map of Misreading that correlates rhetorical tropes and psychic defenses. Irony is the trope of reactionformation, hyperbole of repression, and so forth. Reviewers of mis­ reading in 1976 were...

..., they often shock us by their coarseness and vulgarity. But Gulliver always succeeds in re-engaging our sympathy when he explains he is merely trying to be realistic; and Bloom obtains our forgive­ ness when he calls himself a beast that wants discourse of reason after his indecorous sexual lapse...

...), Lady Adeline as a bored but conniving Calypso, and her frolic Grace Fitz-Fulke as an irre­ sistible Siren. Ulysses' Odyssean framework, institutionalized by Gilbert and Linati, is common knowledge. There is a chapter for each of Homer s episodes, a peripatetic and prudent hero (Bloom), and a displaced...

... of Allan Bloom; my friends and I imitated, very affectionately and more than superficially, his infusion of every reading project with his own persona and with p-p-p-passion his tattoo on the plosive consonant, part involuntary, part stagecraft, all riveting, dramatizing for us the explosive potential he...

... read our own, from how we write about economics to how we manage big corpo­ rations, from the Platonic pieties of Allan Bloom to the supercilious treason of Anthony Blunt. Arthur F. Kinney, in his ambitious Humanist Poetics, describes the rhetoric-centered world Ramus upended. Kinney started out...

...George Core Selected Essays of John Crowe Ransom . Edited by Young Thomas Daniel Hindle John . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1984 . Pp. 354 . $30.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 205 In general, Mr. Bloom may be seen...

..., 390. $27.50. Devotees of misreading will recall a map of misprision on page 84 of Harold Bloom s book A Map of Misreading that correlates rhetorical tropes and psychic defenses. Irony is the trope of reactionformation, hyperbole of repression, and so forth. Reviewers of mis­ reading in 1976 were...

... that we devise in order to give meaning to our lives. This de­ bate has taken a serious turn in the last decade and now as before its terms are being principally set by extremists and anti-utopians. Critics such as Allan Bloom, William Bennett, and E. D. Hirsch have presented an agenda and purpose...

.... Ulysses the book is, of course, an image of Man the universal, just as its characters, headed by the trinity of Stephen, Bloom, and Molly, compose an image of diverse humanity, Dublin City as a cracked lookingglass image of the City of God. The book (which this reviewer sees as a literary colossus-emblem...

... on diluted content instead of serving the most nourish­ ing fare. Allan Bloom speaks for such objectors in The Closing of the Ameri­ can Mind, when he says that a liberal education means reading certain generally recognized classic texts, just reading them, letting them dictate what the questions...

... of Greek, Irish, and Jewish elements wherein Stephen and Bloom jointly share the character of Odysseus. The Shakespeare chapter pursues something of the same method. This time Ellmann conceives of Joyce appropriating Shakespeare, or more specifically Hamlet and theories of Hamlet, as a means of giving...

... that is most intriguing and valuable precisely because it fails to remain authoritative. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DAVID SIMPSON The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman. By James D. Bloom. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1984. Pp. 7, 216. $24.50. James Bloom s book is both...

... of the early burst of bloom is never recaptured, and in vain as a rule does the reader who does not believe that poetry is a dead art, some day to be classed with mound-building, look for some new burgeoning to arrest his attention and inflame his fancy. In the introduction to an English edition of the poems...