/lit/ - Literature

How much does one have to know grammar/linguistics to become a literary critic?

Finish this book, OP. By god you have a higher calling

S tier: forest anon

F tier: buttercunt, gardner, nigger hands, that fag who types in all caps, nick land fag, guenon fag, that scottish fag who jerked off a homeless guy, that 'Learned Disguise' gook

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more critics like Bloom?

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>/lit/ - Literature

1.5 years since his death and woke liberals and leftists have successfully cancelled Shakespeare, Aristotle, Hume, Kipling and even fucking JK Rowling. When will /lit/ repent their sins, acknowledge that he's been vindicated and was absolutely correct about everything?

>download a shitload of books on literary theory
>get excited because finally I'm going to understand written word beyond the normie plebeian perspective
>think I'm going to be introduced to theory of poetic rhythm, use of metaphor etc.
>open the pdf
>it's mostly Freudian sexual reductionism, feminist/postcolonialist readings of Shakespeare and Marxist materialist "analysis"
Bloom was right, please don't make my mistake and don't let yourself be memed into literary theory

Now that the dust has settled, what's the /lit/ consensus on Harold Bloom? What is worth reading from him, which works of his are just him wanking off?

Best universities/programs in south america and iberian peninsula?

today I will remind them

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>>16372353
>publishers asking about social media follower amounts
>follower engagements
I have no social media
I have a book
This is gay

>INTERVIEWER
>You’ve written that the Christian Bible is, on the whole, a disappointment.

>BLOOM
>The aesthetic achievement is so much less than that of the Old—or original—Testament. The New Testament is a very curious work from a literary point of view. So much of it is written by writers who are thinking in Aramaic and writing in demotic Greek. And that curious blend of Aramatic syntax with a Greek vocabulary is a very dubious medium. It’s particularly egregious in the Revelation of St. John the Divine, the Apocalypse, which is a very bad and hysterical and nasty piece of writing. Even the most powerful parts of the New Testament from a literary point of view—certain epistles of Paul and the Gospel of John—are not works that can sustain a close aesthetic comparison with the stronger parts of the Hebrew Bible. It is striking how the Apocalypse of John has had an influence out of all proportion to its aesthetic, or for that matter, I would think, its spiritual value. It is not only an hysterical piece of work, but a work lacking love or compassion. In fact, it is the archetypal text of resentment, and it is the proper foundation for every school of resentment ever since.

What did /ourguy/ mean by this?

>last book you read
>what you are reading now
>which languages you speak

>>16290194
Read more until you enjoy it

I already knew a lot of authors and had read a lot before I came here. Now I waste my time here instead of reading.

>>16287699
this feels wrong
what have i done