so, /lit/, lemme get this straight:
harold bloom (and half of /lit/) thinks david foster wallace is shit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom#Reception.2C_criticism_and_controversy)
bloom thinks new criticism is shit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#The_debate)
dfw thinks new criticism is shit (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/03/on-fredric-jameson/)
eagleton thinks bloom is shit (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/aug/20/classics)
eagleton, zizek, and jameson are critbros (https://newleftreview.org/II/59/terry-eagleton-jameson-and-form)
militant social justice warriors think all of the above are shit
everyone else thinks militant social justice is shit
and analytic philosophers are laughing they're asses off
Hold on, let me get this straight:
People have opinions?
What the actual fuck is going on
How can Bloom be against New Criticism?
New Criticism is one of the only ways through which the canon continues to be talked about
>DFW cites Fredric Jameson by name as one of a group of critics whose English is "appalling"
>"pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipidelian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead.”
I bet DFW could not have written this with a straight face. he was either smugpepe or wincing.
Fuck Bloomie got accused by a Feminist cunt of "sexual encroachment" two decades later, you fucking what mate?
DFW corncobby as fuck, means absolutely nothing to anyone.
>>7997187
This
>>7998622
>When asked about the allegations in 2015, Bloom stated, "I refuse to even use the name of this person. I call her Dracula's daughter, because her father was a Dracula scholar. I have never in my life been indoors with Dracula's daughter. When she came to the door of my house unbidden, my youngest son turned her away. Once, I was walking up to campus, and she fell in with me and said, 'May I walk with you, Professor Bloom?' I said nothing."
lol
>>7997187
Hold it.
Elaborate on that idea my friend.
>>7997189
Bloom prefers some kind of literary mysticism or esotericism to the sort of objective analysis that New Criticism entails. Note Bloom's interest in Kabbalah
>>7997181
>(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom#Reception.2C_criticism_and_controversy
>criticizing Maya Angeluo, Stephen King and J.K. Rowling
>Controversial
Hold on, let me get this straight:
I can just kill myself and all of this will end?
What's the catch?
>>8000184
That's just what Wikipedia thinks, and the controversy sections are always the most retarded
>>8000011
what a fucking fucking retard
