Summary
Predrag Brebanović: Harold Bloom's antithetical canon
From the cover:
"Harold Bloom is undoubtedly the most significant and perhaps the only authentic literary critic of today. Such an explicit judgment could be defended in many ways - we could, depending on our own inclinations, on this occasion draw arguments concerning Bloom's personality or those based on the state of the discipline he deals with - but it is crucial that this assessment is increasingly difficult to dispute, even if we understand criticism, in accordance with the established Anglo-Saxon practice, as writing about literature as a whole. Admittedly, Bloom does not think that he is writing "about" literature, because for him, in accordance with the etymology of the English "about", it would mean being outside of it, which he does not want, but for the same reason it should be said immediately that this book is not about him and his critics..."
Predrag Brebanović
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