miker wrote:
"No. Not at all. Bloom thinks that a critic's job, at least
in part, is identifying that which will become timeless. It
is not a disdain for new material."
Offhand, I'd say that just shifts the issue from disdain to
elitism.
For the record, though, I was attributing the disdain to the
teen whose overheard pronouncements got me thinking about the
general attitude that nothing new is any good, that it's not
even worth considering until it's withstood the test of time.
I don't know enough about Bloom's theories to comment on
whether or not he subscribes to that line (which also applies
to my above implication of elitism, though from what little I
do know about him, he'd probably welcome the label).
Mark
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