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20322158 No.20322158 [Reply] [Original]

He's pretty much the only professional critic worth taking seriously, right? Especially compared to the ones of other mediums like Christgau or Ebert.

>> No.20322194

>>20322158
Would that he were still with us. :[

>> No.20322210

>>20322158
Christgau was a worthless retard.
>>20322194
Shut the fuck up.

>> No.20322230

>>20322158
>like Christgau or Ebert
not the same kind of critic

>> No.20322289

>>20322230
Who would be analogous to those assclowns in literary criticism? Forgive me, I'm not too well versed in that area.

>> No.20322365

>>20322289
NYT book review or the like is the ebert of the literary world, whereas a 'literary critic' so to speak, is a serious scholar, almost always a phd holder/tenured faculty whose life work is in analyzing literature, rather than giving it a score or rating. To address your question, though, there are tons of critics worth reading. Only, usually they write in small, niche publications, on topics you haven't even heard of half the time. Bloom is the rare exception where a serious critic gains mass popularity and covers a wide range of literary topics well. I can only think of a few similar figures (joseph campbell for example). Most only have expertise in very specific areas (and the academic publishing industry incentivizes increasingly obscure criticism).

>> No.20322492

>>20322158
R.W.B. Lewis

tis' all.

>> No.20322511

>>20322158
LOL

>> No.20322584
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20322584

>>20322158
I think you forgot someone

>> No.20322618
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20322618

>>20322158
Bloom was influenced by Northrop Frye.

>> No.20323061

>>20322158
Lasch

>> No.20323074

>>20322210
God I hate Christgau

>> No.20323078

>>20322210
So hateful, but you get a (you), so good job, I guess.

>> No.20323089

James Wood is our best living widely known critic

>> No.20323107

He just ripped off Eliot

>> No.20323110

>>20323074
He represents everything wrong with critics, smug attitude and neverending moralizing.

>> No.20323285

Bloom was the only one that refused to kowtow to the Political Correctness and Ethnical Identity bullshit. According to Bloom, all writings should be judged by the text. His heroes are Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, and Whitman.

>> No.20323936

>>20322158
>like Christgau or Ebert
If your pool of references is that shallow, then surely you would continue thinking that to be so.

>> No.20325414

>>20323936
Those two just happen to have memetic statuses, similar to Bloom.