/lit/ - Literature

Hello fellow western canonittes

>>13026133

Study the humanities right fucking now!

Repent you STEM zoomer shits!

>>12705105
The Bible is only important on /lit/ because of Bloom.

Getting real sick of all the damn Christian threads.

Why does he have such a problem with Tolkien?

>>11976264
>he thinks we read Plato for Socrates literal arguments
>he thinks Plato actually believes those arguments

This is what happens when you skip intros, essays, and scholarship and think you are engaging with the text.

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reminder that refusing to engage with art because of the identity of the artist is some middle school edgelord shit

Bloom is fine unless you only read Bloom. It is important to group readings of Bloom with other critics (esp. Post-Structuralists and Critical Theorists). Bloom had some good ideas, but some really stupid ones as well. The most important thing to understand, if you care about "good criticism," is that it is important to view literature from as many perspectives as possible, be it a Marxist or traditionalist lens, and to view through only one limits your perception.

>>10132493
>tfw no discernible resolution

>Bloom is a fucking Freudian

Into the trash he goes!

>>9789745
oh cool we are saying the same thing sass unintentional
here's another bloom

Have you ever been so /lit/ you frightened and disturbed someone?

Does literature studies die with him?

>>9770589
use this one instead

>>9719186
>he hasn't read tolstoy and dostoevsky translated by Garnett
if you had, you wouldn't dream of saying this. god damn nabokovites

I am outsourcing my western canon gatekeeping.
Suggest unto me literature with the greatest prose of any era.
/lit/, this is your chance to do something legitimately useful, you eternal sacks of dogshit.
Yes, I've scoured the lists.
Geniuses only. GENIUSES ONLY.

I'm dying soon, and if you do a good job, i'll credit you posthumously.

How much of the canon have you read?

>At around 6'5" Harold Bloom is a titan of the literary world in more ways than one. He has often remarked that his love of reading was sparked by the realisation he could reach the top of bookshelves long before his peers.

>>9430427
it's clearly bloom.

>>9402891
>Nothing can be known to any degree of certainty, you idiot.

>tfw a person uses words like child and idiot to augment his poor argument

How do you think Bloom is doing these days, /lit/?

Do you think he's gotten any happier? Do you think he's found any writers who give him hope?

>>8983402
The knowledge that life is short and I could be reading a better book.

>>8907066
Cute, I'll be hitting 50,000