These new dogmatists Bloom dubs the School of Resentment-a catch-all term that includes Marxist, Feminist, and post-structuralist literary critics. With great solemnity, he predicted (this was in 1994) that the Western world was about to enter into a new cultural era, a new Theocratic Age, wherein dogmatism would drive out aesthetic criteria from literature departments. This makes him something of an apocalyptic prophet. Tradition is not only a handing-down or process of benign transmission it is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration, in which the prize is literary survival or canonical inclusion.Īs far as I know, Harold Bloom is the last major proponent of the ‘Great Books’ paradigm of higher education. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom Running the (Full) M… on The Madrid Half-MarathonĢ023: New Year… on From Gold to Glory: A Slice of…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Three…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: …Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Jerez… Summertime in Andalucía: Málaga and Surroundings.Summertime in Andalucía: Jerez and Cádiz.
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