/lit/ - Literature

>>17073546
the last interview i saw with him he looked senile and was raving about how trump was hitler. he's better off now.

based

>>17073721
Based

>>17073721
That was a very sad interview for many reasons. I choose to remember his as an ardent defender of the canon and lover of literature. No one will ever be able to fit his shoesor any of his other clothes.

>>17073546
i didn't know until just now. cool dude. he still exists in the ether

>>17073721
I enjoy Bloom for his preservation of the canon, but he's still a gnostic jew.

>>17073933
Words that mean nothing

>>17073933
you're still a human being. who cares

>>17073933
Waahhhh bad thoughts be hurting me

>>17073937
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>>17073988
His personal views aside, he has done more for the preservation of literature than I ever will, so I'm thankful for that. I was too brash.

>>17074020
Respect

I think Bloom will be remembered for "Anxiety" and also for his own anxiety. He overestimated the effects of multicultural wokeness and genuinely believed the English department was being assailed by pernicious, inculcating forces. In reality the English department's population has been in decline for the last century as technology increasingly dominates the academy. Just think about that. For bloom's entire career, his field was shrinking. Natural he would attribute this to bad actors and an erosion of aesthetic feeling, as this cements his own erstwhile status as a literati. He ignored the historical trend because for bloom, great literature existed in a quasi-timeless realm. I'm not convinced by his gnosticism or prescriptivism, though I do like his theory of writers' lineal inheritance. All of his rabidest fanboys are insufferable undergrads.

>>17074158
>Overestimated the effects of multicultural wokeness
That's the first time I've seen a positive perception how how things are now on this board. I sincerely hope you are right.

>>17074158
>In reality the English department's population has been in decline for the last century
Peterson said young men flee the humanities. what's the truth here?

>>17074660
It's probably true. My english department was 60% female. My english grad program was 72% female. As always, women invade a space and lower the standards and ruin everything with their disrespect of the tradition. I'm only being partly sincere, so don't take me so seriously. I do think that by not intensely studying the canonical authors, as we used to, we are losing touch with truly sublime literature. I do think that women and minorities are partly to blame. (I myself am a racial minority.) But I also think technology is overwhelmingly to blame. To your point, men go where the money is, as they always have.

>>17074673
after all I heard and witnessed about Yale, I don't think that now Yale is not a place where you can learn to think for yourself about literature

>>17073546
*lies about his reading speed*
I'm thinking based, he'd have been a poster on here had he been younger

Writer's envy hack, George Steiner mogs the shit out of him.

>>17074673
>invade a space
You do realize English Lit has an academic subject was designed for women in the first place?

>>17074673
I remember my undergraduate courses where 95% female and all of them teenagers. Also they had to be dumbed down for the masses of students failing the course. People looked at me queer for confessing my love for literature and my taking it seriously. Women and retards lack the ability to be appreciate the study of high culture.

>>17074805
Where? I want to read that.

he was a king, rip