/lit/ - Literature

>>13782084
good on you
keep up the good taste

>>12221958
>Broadly, Bloom terms "Schools of Resentment" approaches associated with Marxist critical theory, including African American studies, Marxist literary criticism, New Historicist criticism, feminist criticism, and poststructuralism—specifically as promoted by Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The School of Resentment is usually defined as all scholars who wish to enlarge the Western canon by adding to it more works by authors from minority groups without regard to aesthetic merit and/or influence over time, or those who argue that some works commonly thought canonical promote sexist, racist or otherwise biased values and should therefore be removed from the canon. Bloom contends that the School of Resentment threatens the nature of the canon itself and may lead to its eventual demise.
Her counter argument:
>YIKES XD

*gropes you*

>>10345624

>>10237241
>purveyor of arbys

Fat and jolly Bloom is gone forever :(

>>9844110
>the tripfag has started literally talking to himself
achievement unlocked: i've got a friend in me

>some other folks might be
>a little bit smarter than I am
>bigger and stronger too
>maybe
>but none of them will ever love me
>the way I do
>it's me and me, boy

>and as the years go by
>our friendship will never die
>i'm gonna see it's schizo-therapy
>i've got a friend in me

>>9663701
He will die soon and I won't see a point in living.
He has such a love of literature it's amazing. We're really lucky be alive while he is.

>the comedy of sexual intercourse is presumably the initial virginity of the body

She is catholic, lads. Literally a pure waifu.

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/

>2003

>Giving awards for arts
>Movie posters as book covers
>??
>That makes no sense boys

>mfw

>If you only read mediocre stuff, you stop thinking very well. And if as a nation we stop thinking well, someday we will yet cease to be a democracy.

Are we already seeing stirrings of that? Do you agree with his claim?

People don't read as much good literature as they used to, even a few decades back.

Post profound literary criticism texts here

>>8609992
>Real creative writing prompts, the kinds you do at workshops

>>8587645
>implying I would put worthless authors on my list

>>8514919
Selfdefenestrate.

>The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is a lightning fast reader; blink and he's probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour

He also says he remembers nearly everything he ever read.

Does /lit/ really believe this baseless claim? With that kind of mental prowess, why has he failed to become an authoritative polyglot?

All those aspects of fluency - reading, writing, speaking, listening - at the rate he can read, these should have been mere child's play to him. Based on the rate that he claims, he should have been able to become fluent in a language, to a scholarly level, in three months or less. And he has said that he wished he spoke Spanish, German, etc. But he doesn't. So why?

>>8423435
That David Foster Wallace novel with discernible talent.

>>6208634