Bloom: Harry Potter is stupid crap; NYT is "counterculture"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 11 20:51:36 PDT 2000


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>In the first paragraph of his attack on Harry Potter as cliched and
>illiterate, Bloom uses a hackneyed quotation from Hamlet (mangled and
>misunderstood, I'd say) and misuses the word "epiphenomenon." Hmmm.

Standards are dropping daily! And Bloom is supposed to be the patrolman for the canon. The bourgeoisie just doens't know what to do with its cultural inheritance.

Doug



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