>reading book by renowned literary critic Harold P. Bloom
>topic has nothing to do with Shakespeare
>this n*gga still cant go more than 3 pages without mentioning Shakespeare and trying to weave Shakespearean themes into the topic
Why is he like this? Bloom is supposed to be the foremost critic of the 20th century but every book he writes ends up just being “My opinion as a Shakespeare superfan”
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Harold Bloom was right in defending the Western Canon from the 'school of resentment' but that is the only thing he was right about. Otherwise he was a pseud who lied about his reading speed and talked about shit he had no clue about, such as saying that most of the Old Testament was written by a woman.
The female J-writer theory was around long before Bloom. He just endorsed it as a viable possibility
Why is any superfan obsessed with the ones they love?
That's not true at all. You zoomzooms need to grow past the phase of spurning the wisdom of lauded men.
That's not true at all either.
The Anxiety of Influence is a terrific read
holy shit you are dumb
political people truly cannot think, it is shocking
>most of the Old Testament was written by a woman
redpill on this. why did they think so?
I just realized
>redpill me on
is literally
>I do not want to read it, so I will allow a random person on the internet to give me a synopsos, and I will use that as a substitute for the book
>Why is he like this?
Gnosis.
>Bloom is supposed to be the foremost critic of the 20th century
lol, no. Bloom was foremost curmudgeon, not critic. As far as 20th century critics go he had almost no effect on the field and primarily made his name as a critic by pandering to people who do not know what criticism is.
>As far as 20th century critics go he had almost no effect on the field
Literally the only yankee lit critic ive ever heard about as a non-american.
You must have heard of T.S. Elliot and his closer reading method.
Ezra Pound counts and he's certainly much better than Bloom.
That is because he wrote a great deal for the general public. The Anxiety of Influence is the only thing he wrote that had much of an effect on criticism but the influence was small. You probably have heard of more critics than you realize, Susan Sontag is generally well known but more known for her work elsewhere, Against Interpretation is a fairly important bit of criticism.
He not only believed Shakespeare invented the human and was a synecdoche for the entire Western canon, but Bloom was close to genuinely believing that he was God too. Sort of in a campy showman way but also in an almost sincere way. If you believe he's that important you're going to have to mention him in virtually everything you write.
This happens to every artist who achieve a transcendent peak in a medium, such as Michael Jackson, or Marlon Brando. When midwits (125-140 IQ) encounter genius (160 IQ), it melts their brain.
replace jacko with Bob Dylan
He is a discursive or excursive writer. He is John Coltrane with a sax improvising nonstop, and his writing is meant to be a musical pleasure, not a final thesis on humanity
God damn nobody understands this man I swear. His writing style borders on schizophrenia, it is a kind of poetical essay, sometimes vearing off into total metaphorical speculation.
Camile Paglia emulates his style, it is not even a writing style so much as a thinking style, where ideas are allowed to free form in creative procession.
He was an aesthete of the intellect, ideas had to be beautiful to him and this makes everything he writes an absolute trip through his madman brain.
Take him with a big lump of salt and eat his writing up like delicious food. Chew it, swallow, shit it, move on. His cookery is delicious, that is all that matters. He was a big fat man not coincidentally.
Still come to this wasteland for posts like this.
Is it worth reading anything a critic wrote about something I haven't read
Bloom remembers it, so you dont have to
He's an angloid Shakespeare is literally god to him
Only a culture with an exception poet could understand that sort of feeling so I assume you mist be scandinavian or an american who never touch a crumb of Whitman
Shakespeare is central to the canon. Reading some should help.
Hes good, but tolstoy, Cervantes, Milton and Dostoy are better
He's obese for one. Can you trust a guy with no long-term thinking skills? Also men are supposed to go out on adventures, not experience fiction written by adventurers. Women mostly read fiction, men read manuals. I can't actually talk about anything he's written though for I haven't read Shakespeare beyond osmosis.
>Can you trust a guy with no long-term thinking skills? Also men are supposed to go out on adventures
I don't trust charlatan scum like you!
What's exactly charlatan about those statements?
>Also men are supposed to go out on adventures, not experience fiction written by adventurers. Women mostly read fiction, men read manuals.
How do I know you're a closeted gay man without you telling me you are a closeted gay man?
What an effeminate thing to say.
I think you're both gays
Your dislike has been noted.
>Bloom is supposed to be the foremost critic of the 20th century
According to fricking who, other than pseuds on IQfy who don't know of any other critics?
>Bloom is supposed to be the foremost critic of the 20th century
He isn't even the best 20th century israeli (subversive) literary critic, that's George Steiner.
Steiner is worse than Bloom.
Steiner was based and a secondary but decent writer himself (unlike Bloom). Also benefits from being a multinational man. Bloom was an honorary monolingual.
Just compare the contemporary figures they were promoting, which is the main activity of critics. Steiner was selling Rebatet and Boutang while Bloom shilled for...Le Guin?
Shakespeare is vastly overrated.
He lost all credibility to me when I read a part of his own fiction. How can you dedicate your entire life to a single thing, yet fail to produce anything of value yourself in that one area?
As assimilationist, "Defenders of the West" israelites go, he's not bad.
I like "The Closing of the American Mind" when I was 22...
The Closing of the American Mind is by Allan Bloom, not Harold
Bloom was good on Romanticism and that is really it. Bloom and Paglia are just empty culture war figures. No one will remember them in 50 years. Same with all the dumb culture war shitheads of today.
>Bloom was born in New York City on July 11, 1930,[7] to Paula (née Lev) and William Bloom. He lived in the Bronx at 1410 Grand Concourse.[9][10] He was raised as an Orthodox israelite in a Yiddish-speaking household, where he learned literary Hebrew
Opinion invalidated.