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Anonymous Mon Sep 25 16:56:45 2017 No.10070264 [Reply] [Original]

I have never heard of this man outside of /lit/. How is he "in charge" of the Western Canon, exactly? How much power does he have, when all the books he hates are bestsellers and the books he loves are irrelevant?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 16:58:04 2017 No.10070268 Check the back of your books and you will find his name everywhere

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 16:58:48 2017 No.10070273 >>10070264 >How is he "in charge" of the Western Canon, exactly? He wrote half of the Harry Potter pasta.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 16:58:56 2017 No.10070274 Do you honestly believe, in the current date, that best sellersnare good books?

Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:06:38 2017 No.10070308

He isn't in charge of it, he is a meme that /lit/ likes because he loves literature for the aesthetic quality. Most critics now judge literature on moral and political grounds, Bloom is the last of his kind and it's a little sad.

Still he is not without flaw, his canon is missing a lot of prose writers

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:10:11 2017 No.10070318 >>10070274 Yes. I enjoy them. I am not some pretensious snob like most of you guys

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:11:54 2017 No.10070332 >>10070318 Do you accuse people who don't like Justin Beiber of being "pretentious snobs"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:14:54 2017 No.10070348 >>10070308 This. He is the erudite every critic should be, not just some hack with an opinion

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:17:25 2017 No.10070360 >>10070318 >>>/co/

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:22:23 2017 No.10070379 >>10070332 >bringing up justin beiber are you stuck in 2009 dude?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:25:03 2017 No.10070388 >>10070379 Can you maybe make another post, but with an argument in it this time?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:26:25 2017 No.10070394 >>10070388 you first

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:33:16 2017 No.10070416 >>10070394 Do you think people who don't like generic top40 pop music are "pretentious snobs" ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:36:34 2017 No.10070429 >>10070416 If they go off and listen to /mu/ core yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:37:44 2017 No.10070435 >>10070268 Does anyone seriously think he's anything outside USA?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:44:26 2017 No.10070455 >>10070435 He's pretty well known in the UK

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:47:28 2017 No.10070470 >>10070429 The musical equivalent of literature would probably be contemporary classical or something like that. Is that what they listen to on /mu/? I don't go there so I wouldn't know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:51:59 2017 No.10070482 File: 48 KB, 409x409, drapedindisapproval.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10070318 >pretensious snobs >pretensious

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 17:52:02 2017 No.10070483 >>10070435 >b-but in places they don't read english literature they don't know him as much! laughing at your life

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 18:21:28 2017 No.10070583 >>10070435 This desu, no one mentions him, or even knows who he is, in the non-Anglo world

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 18:50:02 2017 No.10070684 >>10070318 "I enjoy them so that means they are good, even if everyone with half a brain has solids arguments to deny they are. You are pretentious for not liking rupi kaur, too" It's not about being "pretensious", is about not being retarded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 18:51:53 2017 No.10070689 >>10070583 as a guy living in mexico, this is complete bullshit

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 25 19:36:13 2017 No.10070835 File: 136 KB, 742x647, shewillnever.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10070583 >the non-Anglo world

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 02:23:57 2017 No.10072093 >>10070264 >irrelevant To what exactly? General public idiocy? Yes. Literature? No.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 02:35:17 2017 No.10072120 >>10070689 Are you in like every thread or what?!

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 02:37:18 2017 No.10072125 >>10070264 He's a jew other jews have elected as the gatekeeper of European literary culture.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 02:40:35 2017 No.10072136 >>10070264 I'm an English undergraduate and I've had 3 different lecturers bring him, once about his anxiety of influence theory, and twice about his idea of Shakespeare inventing modern personality.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 02:41:42 2017 No.10072138 >>10072136 One of them called him a "clever, but silly critic" and I was ready to fight.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 04:40:25 2017 No.10072370 >>10070583 As a Scandinavian, I bring him up whenever I can

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 09:16:29 2017 No.10073042 hahaha, good meme anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 09:28:23 2017 No.10073065 >>10070264 He desecrated DFW, that's enough for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 26 14:03:38 2017 No.10073805 >>10070273 kek'd

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