But remember, Harold Bloom is the guy who wrote his own expanded self-referential "tropology" by which he could read one work of literature as a response to another in an endless daisy chain of struggle of poetic "geniuses" to try (futiley, as Bloom concludes) to "repress" and outdo other poetic geniuses to whom they owed debts (a "map of misreading" -- poet's do nothing apparently but "misread" other poets' poems). Never convinced me, except as a clever way of getting around the need to deal with what poets and writers write "about" and for Bloom to revel in their "poetic selfhood." I tend to consider him one of the consumate trivializers of literature of the postwar literary academy while cleverly claiming to be the defender of literature. The man is terribly prolific, and prolifically terrible (chiasmus).
Sorry, way off the topics of this list.
But the I get the point about Hillary's fuzzy "deep sounding" remarks.
Peter Kosenko
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Doug Henwood wrote:
> >The future senator of New York offered her
> >thoughts: "We are, I think, in a crisis of meaning . . . We lack at some
> >core level meaning in our individual lives and collectively . . . We need
> >a new politics of meaning . . . It's not going to be easy to redefine who
> >we are as human beings in this post-modern age . . .But part of the great
> >challenge of living is defining yourself in your moment."
>
> As Harold Bloom once said in a very different context, "How to
> measure the awfulness of this?"
>
> Doug
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