/lit/ - Literature

>>13846582
>analyzing Harry Potter

What is /lit/'s opinion on Harold Bloom?

>Bloom's introduction to Modern Critical Interpretations: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1986) features his canon of the "twentieth-century American Sublime", the greatest works of American art produced in the 20th century.

Does anyone have a copy of this intro that they can share? Not at my library or on libgen.

>>11847070
"Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace."

>this entire thread

JUST DIE!! JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY!!!

>Radio drama
Not /lit/
>Audio books
/lit/

How do I into Bloomingfield?

>>10781061

>>10705492
>posting literary quotes from Shakespeare
>and Toni Morrison

He was right. We made fun of him, but he was right all along. We should've listened.

Is Bloom actually a good critic, or is he just a meme like Roger Ebert?

I don't want to be harsh, but I find it sad to believe that someone can try to read literature without even a rudimentary understanding of some basic figurative language. He's simply saying that the "hollow men" (Lost Generation, empty generation) are failures and contradictory; they're paralyzed, formless, and colorless spiritually.

>>10262860
It seems like you're feeling some anxiety of influence.

Was Bloom right about slam poetry?

>“I can’t bear these accounts I read in the Times and elsewhere of these poetry slams, in which various young men and women in various late-spots are declaiming rant and nonsense at each other. The whole thing is judged by an applause meter which is actually not there, but might as well be. This isn’t even silly; it is the death of art.”

I see Bloom talked about a lot but how do I actually into him? What are his must-read works or whatever

>In 2004 author Naomi Wolf wrote an article for New York Magazine accusing Harold Bloom of a sexual "encroachment" more than two decades earlier, by touching her thigh. She said that what she alleged Bloom did was not harassment, either legally or emotionally, and she did not think herself a "victim", but that she had harbored this secret for 21 years. Explaining why she had finally gone public with the charges, Wolf wrote, "I began, nearly a year ago, to try—privately—to start a conversation with my alma mater that would reassure me that steps had been taken in the ensuing years to ensure that unwanted sexual advances of this sort weren't still occurring. I expected Yale to be responsive. After nine months and many calls and e-mails, I was shocked to conclude that the atmosphere of collusion that had helped to keep me quiet twenty years ago was still intact—as secretive as a Masonic lodge." 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

>>9815106
>>9815128
>American Pastoral (and Sabbath's Theater)
>not masterpieces
>mfw

> The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character stretched his legs’. I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling’s mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Legs.. easy on the stretching

Was he right?

legs.. easy on the stretching

>mama
>just stole a book

>BLOOMSBURY
>BLOOM

Where do I start reading criticism?
Are there collections or essential authors

What is the outline of a philosophical novel? Is it about a character filtering events through the lens of the philosophy or is it more about the events having an allegorical relation to the philosophy? I ask because I'm interested in writing one