/lit/ - Literature

>>4391314
>and I think his love and respect for certain writers makes him at least not bad to read.

He's not bad to read because he writes for an audience of gullible 16 year olds. He's accessible despite throwing in arcane words like "agon" and "misprison."

He doesn't even edit the "Bloom's Critical Views" series. Some grad student does all the word and he just farts out an introduction that says "Not as good as Shakespeare."

And he refuses to teach grad students. He blames it on the terrible state of academia that he alone seems to recognize, but really he's just afraid that some young kid is going to destroy his weak little theory and challenge him too hard on some points in Shakespeare.

On top of that, Bloom has the nerve to denounce tenure as some kind of academic cancer, while he sits on his fat ass as Professor Emeritus of the Humanities as Yale, where he's completely alienated himself from the rest of the English department (he thinks he's better than them) and writes the same book over and over again, making big bucks off his brand name.

Have you read his introduction to Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote? Here, I'll summarize it for you: "I love Falstaff. He had a great personality."

Thanks, Bloom.

The part where the Judge teaches them how to make gunpowder from the volcano is taken almost line for line from Book VI of Paradise Lost, when Satan addresses his minions, who are concerned they won't defeat God and the angels without a new weapon.

Check out the 50 min. Yale lecture by Prof. Hungerford on the allusions in Blood Meridian. She discusses, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, and Wordsworth.

It shouldn't have to say it, Ulysses is a shit novel, very third-rate. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

>>3436344

Do you have any idea how much of a difference it makes to have class discussions and office hours with professors, who are generally experts on the material? And what of new perspectives on a text? Critical interpretations? Would you just pull those out of a silk hat?

Take Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for example-- do you really think you could read it on your own and see its context, themes, and nuances in full scope? And then there's the Middle English part. The same goes for Shakespeare and all sorts of works.

Plus if you ever want to teach the humanities, you need the certification.

Do you even read?

You bunch of relativists/nihilists/absurdists/whateverists are disappointing. "Oh, I don't have control over my actions, we are all worthless!" "Don't you feel nauseous?" "Ooooh >implying anything is real"

You act like the whole of life is valueless, but continue to value a number of things along the way-- pleasures of the body, as you proclaimed--- art and music and literature-- knowledge of all sorts-- adventures, jokes, pleasures of the mind, whatever. Contemplate the importance of praxis. The old adage is true, that "idle hands are the devil's plaything". Cultivate yourself, go act. Actualize yourself. Examine everything.

Just read some Plato and get it in gear, man.

>>3343517

This is wrong, Plato is critical of Pythagoreanism, especially as an intellectual circle. If you had read Republic Book X you would know this. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot.

Plato and Socrates didn't like sophists because they charged for their teachings, and, moreover, they thought that virtue could be taught in the classroom.

Plato was very intellectually honest and constantly sought to falsify his "objective truths". If you had read Parmenides, for instance, you would know this. But again, you didn't.

Aristotle came along and challenged the doctrine of the forms outright. Do you know who Aristotle is? So much for Western philosophy being indoctrinated-- Plato's foundations were challenged immediately and still are. Do you even Ockham's nominalism?

5/10 for getting me to respond, should have stopped reading at "Plato was a faggot".

>>3311872
>>3311905
>>3312113

>dude storms up into /lit/ and drops knowledge
>everyone is too busy quibbling about DFW and kindles to listen

> altman
> master of the long take

my faces whence

> mfw this thread

>>2293150
> mfw you think you're witty

>>2281261
Probably Bloom's lovechild.