2026... I am forgotten
Has anyone replaced Bloom who isn't just a highly regarded reviewer?
>>25240324Forget the Whoremaster? Never
>>25240324I own a copy of western canon and have read some sections on Proust, Borges and Chaucer. He’s okay if you literally never heard of those people before and need a Wikipedia cliff notes essay on what they are about. He’s not good for much else than that
>>25240350Didn't know Bloom was this based.
>>25240332We replace him by taking his example and developing our own critical taste of the canon.
>>25240359Back before every male in the humanities was a court eunnuch
>>25240370>our own critical taste of the canon."it's good" - me
>>25240350>woman waits until she's a hag to complainI don't need more proof the late 90s were the peak of civilisation.
>>25240350Can you imagine how wet those sycophants got when he called them that in front of other people?
>>25240332Anyone who tries to do what the critics of yesteryear did gets labeled as elitist, discriminatory, and problematic.
>>25240324Other 20thC critics like I.A. Richards, Cleanth Brooks, and Northrop Frye were so much his superior that I used to dislike him a decade or two ago, but he is in turn so much better than today's critics that I've come around to respecting him.
>>25240392idk, there are definitely ideas for that kind of thing but they might not involve the highest possible pleasures you can think about. There is definitely a decent New Yorker article about contemporary twitter circle authors. There's a very explicit group that all kind of know each other, not unlike A. Huxley's circle from the interwar period. It kind of cries out to be writer. It's just one article and won't make you top g, but still. I don't think criticism is dead altogether.
>>25240418pretty sure anon is referring to criticism that is elitist, gatekeepy, and smart
>>25240418>contemporary twitter circle authorsWeb novels are of higher quality than people like Sandbatch and Delicious Tacos and Dimes Square and their more leftist equivalents. Feel free to link the article thoughie, is it actual literary criticism or 'biting social analysis of a friend group scene'?
>>25240429i'm saying you could write such an article. >>25240425you can do that with anything though>>25240429i mean, the internet is an important place so novels that come from it ought to be peak
>>25240324He's not forgotten, booktok girls just spent two days seething about his criticism of Harry Potter like a month ago
>>25240324For bloom and the reading that bloom mostly argues for the english romantics and cowper are all part of a kind of gnostic vision that was part of that practice of authoring poetry
Who is the French bloom?
>>25240392>Anyone who tries to do what the critics of yesteryear did gets labeled as elitist, discriminatory, and problematic.Bloom was labelled as all three and it wasn't enough to drag him down to their level.There aren't any living critics well-regarded enough to survive a garden variety cancelling.
>>25240324Don't worry, I didn't forget you. I never knew who you were.
He wrote the On writing (King's one) of academy.
>>25242304So he's not important. Thanks.
