>let me tell you what I think about this bookWho the fuck cares? Who is this faggot and why was he given any attention as if he was some kind of genius?Who cares about this fat fuck's opinions? What did he do in his life to deserve his popularity other than "being Jewish + existing"?
Defended culture and the canon in a chain of succession from Matthew Arnold -> Northrop Fyre/M. H. Abrams -> Harold Bloom
He's a faggot and a hack, like all canonfags. Representative of an approach to art and literature as creatively dead as stamp collecting.
but i'm supposed to give a shit about your opinion? lol. lmao even. probably some asshurt harry potter manchild
>>24112849Deepthroat a gun, simp.
>I really am the pariah of my profession in the English-speaking world. I resigned from the English Department where I had been a faculty member from 1955 on. In 1976 I went to the acting president and provost of Yale, Hanna Gray, and petitioned the Yale Corporation, that is to say the trustees through her, to release me from the Department of English and I haven't been a Professor of English since then. I'm a non-department of one, with the president of Yale, whoever it is at a particular time, now it's a very splendid president, Rick Levin, as my chair. And I have no colleagues. Sometimes it's lonesome. I'm the Sterling Professor of the Humanities but there's no department of the humanities.>I had a new set of enemies, most of whom were my personal friends, the school of deconstruction, the late Paul de Man, the late Jacques Derrida, the still living J Hillis Miller and Geoffrey Hartman, all my good friends, and I got confused with them sometimes but I was never a deconstructionist, not now, not then, never would be. I didn't believe that you could reduce literature to perpetual ironies.> I do believe in cognitive and aesthetic values and I've had to fight an endless guerrilla war now for more than 40 years against the flood tide which is still now only beginning to subside, people who tried to convince themselves and others that skin pigmentation, sexual orientation, gender, ethnic origins were what mattered about deciding what was or what was not worth reading. I found that obscene and still do.>What they have done to letters is ghastly. But I will too go under, my dear. As I say at one point, we will be mixed together in our common dust.The prophet has spoken.
>>24112489Who's next?
>>24113038gonna send me to alakabam with moldywort? they're children's books. people will start questioning things if you keep obsessing over them
>>24112489Lmao, no anon, Harold Bloom does not exist in any significant chain of literary influence from Matthew Arnold onwards. It's always laughable when people, including Bloom himself, try to give his works the veneer of literature. As if literary criticism as a field isn't mostly insignificant next to literature itself.
>>24113085>Blabla I suck Jewish cock
>>24113054j hillis miller is a way better critic than harold bloom
