miker:
"He might not have liked hardboiled and noir, but I'm
uncertain as to whether that disqualifies his opinion on the
academic interpretation of literature."
There's a very wide gulf between Bloom's idea that nothing
since the Greeks matters (well, maybe Shakespeare) and the
pomos you so loathe. And a lot of theories in between are
well represented on campuses. Plus, you're basing your
conception of the current state of higher education on a 20
year old book.
Mark
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