I see Bloom talked about a lot but how do I actually into him? What are his must-read works or whatever

I see Bloom talked about a lot but how do I actually into him? What are his must-read works or whatever

>hasn't noticed his ethnicity and religion
Don't fall for the brainwashing

Not OP here, everybody knows that he is jewish. How is that important fot his work on literary criticism/theory?
The only thing I kmow about him is that he made a western canon, which seemed to be very reasonable.

I don't see you trying to defend the literary canon from cultural Marxism.

You should read Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series if you want to know how these people think and work. Do not encourage it

>american
>gnostic
wew almost took him srsly, thnx dood

You must be new here...

Not an argument, sweety

>NUH UN AGUMUNT
when will this meme die?

bloom's biggest influences were scholem, jonas, and idel. he is through-and-through a jewish critic, albeit a non-devout, gnostic one.

When hysterical emotional responses that characterize feminist cultural marxist liberals like you cease to dominate when you bring up facts

>marxist liberals
?????????????

Would you recommend a critic?

Answer you fucks

i.e.pro-immigration globalists

Just pick a white catholic conservative man

Not an argument.

He didn't make the canon, he just defended it by winning the Grand Canon war of the 90s.
Basically, what he proposes is that reading the Western canon as the foundation for ideas the our civilization is build upon in necessary for understanding our society and being a part of it. The canon is the lore of our people accumulated throughout centuries.
But he didn't make the canon. Critics can't make the canon and readers don't make the canon - what has a good review/what us popular doesn't make it to the canon unless it stands the test of time. Writers make the canon - by being influenced by other writer. That's why canon isn't arbitrary - you can follow a line of influences through writers. And if you go way back, to the beginnings of the canon - which is, in out case, Homer/the Bible, the first canonical stories are Volklore. Basically, pieces that make the canon are ones that copy the greatest works of art mixed with the genius of the writer's originality. Start with the Greeks may be a meme, but if you don't do that, you're going to the succesful writers with good reviews but forgotten after they died pile. Eg Zadie Smith
Sorry for the long sentences.

Ummmmmmm yeah sweetie this is a pol board now, please check your jewish privilege and stop offending me k?

>Jewish
>Western
Yeah... no.

The introductions to his anthology series, like Modern Critical Views. Or his collections of introductions like Novels and Novelists. Or his book The Western Canon. His earlier non-anthology books, Shelley's Mythmaking up to (but not including) The Western Canon are more for specialists. He repeats himself an awful lot, at least in the later books, so it shouldn't be difficult to get into him.

Actually, I'd start with last year's The Daemon Knows, a wonderful book, and then head back to the 70's and hit The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression, Agon, Figures of Capable Imagination, The American Religion, Jesus and Yahweh, and perhaps Where can Wisdom be Found?. The 'list' lit of the 90's and 00's may be bypassed. Bloom took the 'critic as artist' ideal seriously, he's wonderfully entertaining, insightful, and not just interesting AS a critic but a GREAT appreciator of literature.

You look like you know your s.h.i.t. What about his work on Shakespeare? What's "Inventing the Human" (or whatever it's called) like?

> appreciator of literature
Your jewish misinformation will be more effective on reddit, go there.

Yeah, he can go to reddit and you can go back to /pol/

He just "read" books and talk about "good" "books". Lol
Sadly that doesnt make him a good writer. He is the cuckold of literature, basically.

I'm an oldish fag, and have pretty much read him..
The Shakespeare book's helpful if youve read 10 or so plays and want to gain a sense of what's left. The point of the book is to stretch a statement made many times over the years into an argument with proofs. Compare the insults here, on 4chin, to some of the banter that proceeds among second tier characters in, say, Henry iv pt. 2 and you'll find whatever 'sense' is denoted, implied, whatever, was not only anticipated by Shakespeare, but invented by him. Or study Freud's works and make a list of some of his most insightful comments about human nature. Despite his claims to observation, to 'science,' youll find them all- every one- already made amongst Shakespeare's characters somewhere ALREADY. That, at any rate, is the thesis. Don't much care whether it's true or not, but I do know that I wouldn't want to argue against it.

Youre a severely limited fuck. Read a book or two, if (you) even can.

Actually it is.

Genius is great.

>deciding your reading material on any criteria other than the material itself

How inefficient.

It's impossible to distinguish bait from genuine retardation anymore.

keke

I have trouble taking fat fucks too seriously, although i like chesterton an tolkien..

this
but not unironically

he has some weird ass interpretation of Hamlet's to be or not to be speech. that should tell you all you need to know.

>What are his must-read works
>implying

If (you) want to understand Faulkner, for instance, there's eight or so must-read books. My implication here is that this is a Harold Bloom thread....

In an interview I saw Bloom claimed that he reads at 600 pages an hour. How the fuck is that even possible?

fucking /pol/ shills again with there propaganda

you underestimate the Tribe's powers

Feiki

I assume you mean Bloom who had the chair of English at Yale in the late 90s? I took one or two classes with him as an English major before moving into law, just avoid him at lass costs if you can unless you are truly interested in "deconstructing western civilization and literature" like a good goy.

Western lit, history, actually all teh humanities are so fucking corrupt they cannot stand much longer, going to collapse under their own weight. Peterson may be a meme but on this he is 100% correct. Humanities are finished on Uni campus.

If you are at an Ivy, take the bare minimum to get into the law school you want. If you want to actually study lit semi-seriously in the genuine tradition, spend a dat sitting in on classes at a NESCAC school and see what's left of them.

Hows he deconstructing western civ?

>Hows he deconstructing western civ?
"Bloom explains: "I am using Gnostic in a very broad way. I am nothing if not Jewish... I really am a product of Yiddish culture. "

It would be the equivalent of me...trying to bring the Christian ethic to Talmudic stories. Christianity is indispensable from Western history and especially Lit. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either stupid or a Jew trying to justify his own position and salary. I would not have the same understanding of Christianity (and thus Western Lit) that I do if I had not been learning Latin by the time I was in 2nd grade.