Is he the only professor of literary criticism who hasn't completely bent over a table for the ludicrous...

That's a lot of words I'm not going to read, but I will inform you that Harold Bloom is very much a liberal who always votes Democrat

Yes, that is well. I don't care if someone is a liberal, I care if they're sensible.

Get kids interested in literature from an early age instead of reading only YA

That's nice, and I agree with you. There are sensible people on both sides.

>I also cannot stand the direction the far left has gone, as abortions of logic are its norm
What you are describing has nothing to do with the "left" or even the "far left". The global capitalist ruling class is very deliberately imposing this "SJW" irrationalism on elite institutions, so as to redirect any threat to their power to ever-more-finely-sliced social wedge issues.

I have dreams.

Is that what BLM is

Irrationalism is the perfect word for it. That based history professor also admitted to international banking and how it's "alarmingly close" to the extent the conspiracy theorists claim it is lol.

Not a bad theory though.

I enjoyed this. Thanks, user.

>The Canon is what I, Harold Bloom, have the easiest time remembering and reciting.

Wow, conservative and right-wing academia, you sure have the greatest minds out there. Now my Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida and Deleuze are beat the FUCK out. How can I ever read anything but Bloom and his Canon again?

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You guys are fucking retarded.

why does he always look so sad ;((

he smart

my favorite Bloom interview

>tfw the guy who discovered the INVENTION of the goddam HUMAN is not gonna make it through 2016

>His position is that politics has no place in literary criticism: a feminist or Marxist reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet would reveal something about feminism or Marxism, he says, but likely nothing about Hamlet itself.

b-but i thought he was a meme
h-have to read everything of his now
thanks based op

"The ultimate use of Shakespeare is to let him teach you to think too well, to whatever truth you can sustain without perishing."

I wonder if the criteria is what he can read in 400 pages an hour or faster but doesn't sound pleb. So on the first part DFW is fucked but on the second so is Harry Potter

You'd be sad too if you had this hanging over you

>tfw even the cover is bad
>tfw he probably insisted on that gay subtitle

There's no ebook of this, right?

This has always mystified me about critics. They claim knowledge of what makes a book good, but can't write a good book themselves.

Plebs do get mystified by the most common things

Speaking of which, i got this, probably i will read it after Voltaire's Dictionary. I don't know what to expect, except the memes i've been reading here. Also, i hate critics.

Those who can't do teach.
Those who can't teach criticize.

And those who can't criticize criticize anime.

Hopefully people with similar views step up.

I know a fatty when I see one but I couldn't eat twelve hamburgers

Am I the only one who pictured Gaston Godin from Lolita looking exactly like Harold Bloom?

>But the lower part of his body was enormous, and he ambulated with a curious elephantine stealth by means of phenomenally stout legs. He always wore black, even his tie was black; he seldom bathed; his English was a burlesque.

thanks for the embarrassing lack of insight

All we can hope for is a worldwide disaster to send us into another dark age

>tfw emailed Bloom
>tfw when he replied
>Printed
>Framed
>Lit a menorah.

What he said made sense.
>I know a fatty when I see one
He is criticizing this person as fat.
>but I couldn't eat twelve hamburgers
He can't do the things the person he is criticizing can do.

The Canon is a spook that outlived its usefulness and got replaced by newer spooks, like prestige TV, social relevance etc.

I agree. If only people could be as reasonable and fair as we are!

why wouldn't it, though?

is deconstruction really that bad? I always thought derrida was pretty protective of history.

Do you REALLY have to reread Shakespeare so many times you can't read a 200 page novel once?

>implying
Small liberal arts schools are havens for the idiot rich. "The humanities" need to be destroyed and rise again from the ashes.

Terrorism is the last relevant artform. everything else is commodified bullshit and pointless circlejerking.

I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS SHIT FOR YEARS

It varies from school to school desu
If it's a small liberal arts school that attracts urban SJWs then it may as well be in a big city. But if it manages to repel them (not being in an artsy college town) the school can still be of value. You just need to be selective when applying to schools, which Veeky Forums seems to really struggle with. Condemning a field of study as a whole because you read an article bitching about Oberlin and a select few other schools paired with Veeky Forums meme bitching is foolish.

You are seriously retarded

None of you have read that book.

Terrorism is just as grasping and commodity driven. It's actually the perverse mirror image of modern art: decapitations are just a neanderthal's version of the ice bucket challenge.

I wish I was kidding, but essentially everything gets turned into a commodity, even the psychopaths of so-called islamic state

It's a nihilistic meme that uses the mass media apparatus to replicate itself but remains alien to it. Much like school shootings, it is the logical development to the countercultural destructive impulses which the media has been amplifying for the last 100 years. Jihadis are less like the companions of the prophet and more like the Dadaists, gangsta rap, situationism and punk rock.

>Now my Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida and Deleuze are beat the FUCK out
oh god
you're embarassing

René Girard was also pretty fucking good. But I guess he's dead now and his followers are generally dumb.

funny, I never hear this sentiment from someone who's thoroughly-versed in "the humanities." What are "the humanities?" Do you study them? Can you tell me who are the current leading academics of "the humanities?"

Or are you one of those bitter hermits/failed writers who is currently studying lit or philosophy in grad school, probably studying one or two writers/thinkers, and you read a few pages of bell hooks or Solanas or Dworkin and suddenly proclaim "everything is going down the shitter! just look at the masses and the youth! they are buying into all this popular feminism!" in other words, you hate the masses for being masses and use this as evidence for cultural decline.

or do you have something substantial to say? pls enlighten me, and try to avoid shitposting.

lol you're trying to call him a pretentious prick while writing a post like this.

can you teach me how to be so little self-conscious?

>funny, I never hear this sentiment from someone who's thoroughly-versed in "the humanities."
This entire thread is about the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University expressing exactly that opinion.

I said try to avoid shitposting, friend =^)
don't let's pretend Harold Bloom is relevant anymore. he's a dinosaur. his last book of criticism was published 26 years ago. he's only still around because of tenure. if you think having the title "professor of humanities" means anything then you haven't attended college

I doubt Bloom even has anything against any of those people in particular, and apparently he's quite fond of Benjamin's literary criticism. What he dislikes is people who call themselves Derrideans or Lacanians or Foucaultians and who are little more than clones of those thinkers who only use their methods in criticism. He feels it stifles individuation in thought

I've always enjoyed Frank Kermode's work. Old-school, lucid and illuminating.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kermode

nah to label them artists is incorrect.
There is nothing innovative about being cavemen.

They're cunts.

He's not with us any more, however.

Sterling Professor is the single highest position an academic can hold at one of the most reputable universities on the planet. Regardless of whether you agree with his views, that means he achieved something significant. People still regularly discuss Bloom's work and he published one of his best books, Anatomy of Influence, less than five years ago.

You don't sound like you know what you're talking about.

Agreed, he's more or less a deconstructionist after all.

>single highest position academic university blah blah blah
My university has titles, too. That doesn't mean they bestow anything upon their holders, that just means some rich guy donated money to hire a professor to fill a certain job. You think Bloom has to earn this title? Pass a review every five years or something? Nope. He took that job a long time ago and merely hasn't died yet.

You thinking anatomy of influence is one of his best books, let alone the implication that it's a relevant book, is laughable. I bet you think it's some groundbreaking piece of criticism that isn't merely a reflection of his self-admittedly prodigious memory that allows him to make the referential connections that are the wet dream of every other undergrad on Veeky Forums.

>I doubt Bloom even has anything against any of those people in particular
He was a real bastard to Derrida and others of the Yale school. The guy really sounds like one of those catty bitch characters you see in chick flicks from what I've heard.

This is the face of modern literary criticism. I feel tired.

>This is the face of modern literary criticism.
You go work with him. If you're a chick or can pass as one he might harrass your (boi) pussy.

All I'm saying is he does get personal as fuck, he isn't some impartial above it all academic. Office politics is often a big part of academia.

>this delusional academia fuckwit

Take that tinfoil off and recognize that the universities are reaping just what they sowed.

It's going to be a glorious spectacle when these corrupt institutions are run into the ground by their liberal ideology and bad fiscal management. We are in desperate need of another Flexner Report to eliminate bad institutions and cut down the number of people who waste billions of taxpayer dollars by going to college

Take it back to /pol/ - you egregious moron.

Stay mad cucklord

Don't call it a grave. This is the future you chose

Because he sees Hamlet, Shakespeare, and literature in general, particularly the works in the canon, as surpassing both feminism and Marxism.

SOON

>tfw spot a liar since Bloom says he doesn't know how to type.

More based Girard threads needed

Hint: the powerless don't "choose the future". Harvard and Yale are elite institutions that exist to advance the interests of elites. If you believe anything else, you're delusional.

Lol who are these 'powerless' you speak of?

Ivy league schools have done more to stir the flames of socialism and unrest than any other group of institutions in the country. They exist to benefit themselves. They pander to who they know will pay up to go there.

>Ivy league schools have done more to stir the flames of socialism
You have no idea what you are talking about, do you? Have you ever even gone to college?

>You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?
You tell us about how you think Harvard and Yale are hotbeds of conservativism and we can try and put you right.

There's definitely a level of snobbery but beyond that

I have a Master's in economics from Imperial College. The Ivy league schools are breeding houses for left wing parrots and worthless 'intellectuals'. Everything wrong with academia today started at the top. Non-STEM departments in those schools should be severely reviewed for merit and academic rigor. Departments that do not make the cut should be shut down, and their professors dismissed

>people disagree with me but I haven't read enough to disagree back, so I'll just dismiss them and pretend to be cool
ftfy

Believe me I've read enough.

I don't believe you!!!!!!!

I don't know why you're still responding kid. you're not saying anything
>believe me
>trust me guys
>I win this conversation

I sympathize with your point of view, but I doubt random dipshits on Veeky Forums represent the face of any branch of academia

I always hated this picture. Everything about it just looks stupid.

STEM major at an Ivy here who has taken two humanities courses so far. So far I've felt the SJW bogeyman destroying academia thing was mostly a myth, but now I'm worried if it's coming true, though by your standards I'm probably one myself.

I think if you engage with so-called SJWs directly you'll get much more measured and agreeable responses than the things you hear about or see online.

kek

I'm the President.

gays shouldn't be allowed in the military, bestiality should be allowed, Barthes is a hack, and I'm glad DFW is dead because his masturbatory shlock about marijuana consumption was the most boring thing I've ever read. Before you say anything, deep down you know I'm right, I just had the guts to say it, on an an anonymous imageboard.

>a few pages of bell hooks or Solanas or Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin is pretty good though. I don't know why you're putting him with that psycho who shot Andy Warhol and some feminist whose name sounds like a gardening implement.

lol

Dead college kids are always a welcome sight

lad wew (s.).

so edgy it's not even edgy

>INTERVIEWER
>What are your recollections of the neighborhood in which you grew up?

>BLOOM
>Almost none. One of my principal memories is that I and my friends, just to survive, had constantly to fight street battles with neighborhood Irish toughs, some of whom were very much under the influence of a sort of Irish-American Nazi organization called the Silver Shirts. This was back in the 1930s. We were on the verge of an Irish neighborhood over there in the East Bronx. We lived in a Jewish neighborhood. On our border, somewhere around Southern Boulevard, an Irish neighborhood began, and they would raid us, and we would fight back. They were terrible street fights, involving broken bottles and baseball bats. They were very nasty times. I say this even though I’ve now grown up and find that many of my best friends are Irish.

What type of fighter do you think Bloom was like?

This is what you look like after a lifetime of mouth breathing

Don't do it kids

they fan the flames of cultural leftism, not socialism.

It's just looks stupid and wompy. The woman, the dead guy, the people strolling about. I want to punch the whole scene.