MEMBER BLOG TAG: literary criticism
| Sunday, May 1, 2011 8:40PM | | | | A CONVERSATION WITH HAROLD BLOOM | Tags: Literary taste, Western literary canon, literary criticism, Shakespeare's greatness: naturalistic characterizations. Walt Whitman's finest works, Ralph Waldo Emerson as American mentor, Edmund Wilson as inspiration, Dr. Samuel Johnson as role model for Harold Bloom, love of reading.
| | | | Yale University’s Sterling Professor of Humanities, author of many books of literary criticism and cultural analysis, Harold Bloom, was introduced and questioned by Paul Holdengraber to stimulate a conversation about Mr. Bloom's opinions and career. Holdengraber is curator of “LIVE from the NYPL, a Cognitive Theatre with a mission to provoke, engage, instigate, and agitate the mind.” The acoustics in the auditorium were poor, causing an echo-like reverberation that made it difficult to understand what the men were saying. Holdengraber's German accent and Harold Bloom's age and difficult speech, and habit of mumbling behind the hand supporting his chin, made it hard to understand their conversation. Most audience members, except for those in the very front rows near the stage, had difficulty getting all the... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:29PM | | | | THE NEXT DECADE IN BOOK CULTURE | Tags: Technology & Book Publishing, Internet & Blogosphere & Literary Criticism, 21st Century Book Reviewing, Death of the Professional Critic, Authority Everywhere Creates Authority Nowhere, Democratization of Literary Criticism.
| | | | THE NEXT DECADE IN BOOK CULTURE, Wed. Apr. 27th Eve., was a panel discussion hosted by Jane Ciabattori, past president of the National Book Critics Circle, and current V.P. editor of CRITICAL MASS, the NBCC Newsletter and Blog: . The panel consisted of Morris Dickstein of the USA, Carsten Jensen of Denmark and Herve Le Teller of France. (Cynthia Ozick was ill and absent, and Finton O’Toole could not attend because of a family emergency.)
All seemed to agree that book culture is changing rapidly and giving way to new electronic technologies, and that the professional critic is dying, drowned out by the phenomenon of the blogosphere. “Authority everywhere, creates authority nowhere” and the democratization of reviewing is the death of literary criticism. Even so,... | | | | | |
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