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23220061 No.23220061 [Reply] [Original]

Why didn’t Harold Bloom write anything of significance himself?

>> No.23220069

>>23220061
he wrote the harry potter copypasta

>> No.23220071

Same reason you didn't.

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>> No.23220111

>>23220061
But he did. He wrote many literary essays of great significance, and with a great style. He wasn't a good fiction writer, but he was a magnificent essayist.

>> No.23220246

>>23220111
He was just following the footsteps of previous critics. He never really had compelling insight.

>> No.23220905

>>23220061
Did you read his commentary on the Western Canon?

>> No.23220941

>>23220089
do any of those books have anything interesting to say?

>> No.23220949

>>23220246
Which critics?

>> No.23220951

>>23220941
Something about how Shakespeare is Yakub and invented humans or something

>> No.23221485

>>23220951
Underrated. Fuck, that's good. Never seen this one before.

>> No.23221904

I actually had to read Flight to Lucifer for a fantasy course I took in college. The day we were scheduled to discuss it the professor's first question was, 'OK, now, how is Bloom's novel different from the fantasy novels what we've read so far?' A bunch of people raised their hand and answered but none of them seemed to be saying what the professor had in mind. He kept saying, 'Yeah, what else?' Finally nobody had anything to say and he waited a few seconds before saying, 'Well, let me phrase it another way. Was there something in Bloom's novel that eluded you?' Silence. 'Something, perhaps, that you would have liked to see, but didn't? Something that was either absent, or hard to detect?' Ah, of course! My hand shot up. 'Yes, Anon.' 'Talent,' I said, 'There was no discernible talent!' The professor and I broke out into hysterical laughter. 'You couldn't discern any talent!' 'None!' he shouted and started rolling around on his desk like a turtle on its back. My face was red and I was wiping away tears. We laughed for about five minutes before it died down to nothing but brief aftershocks of giggles. 'Oh man,' he said. 'Good lord. All right. Remember to read the rest of it for Tuesday, and (shouting over everyone packing up) see if you can discern any talent!' And he pointed at me. 'This guy,' he said. 'Woo.'

>> No.23221919

>>23220061
He saw himself more as a classroom teacher than an academic.