上世纪90年代中期,布鲁姆对当代美国文学研究提出了尖锐的批评。在他看来,那些哗众取宠的研究者,手捧克隆版的法德理论,喋喋不休谈论各种有关性倾向和社会性别的意识形态,倡导纠缠不清的文化多元主义,但是却恰恰忘记了文学的审美自主性。这些文学研究者阅读文学作品仅仅是职业的需要, In the mid-90s of the last century, Bloom gave a sharp criticism of contemporary American literature. In his opinion, the grandstanding researchers, clinging to a clone of the French-German theory, chattering about various ideologies of sexual orientation and gender, advocating tangled cultural pluralism, but just forgetting the literature Aesthetic autonomy. These literary researchers read literary works is just the need of occupation,