Personally Speaking
Spring 1986
The Fate of Rereading
We take what we need from the books we read, and what we need changes. The meaning of a book should be located less in an achieved interpretation than in […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1984
Bloom, Freud, and “America”
Harold Bloom’s theory of poetic influence is the most controversial and influential of our time. It is an overtly psychological theory: in Agon, published in 1982, Bloom asserts that we […]