http://www.girldetective.net/?p=366 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Sun, 17 May 2026 16:18:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-6840 Geoff Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:52:26 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=366#comment-6840 Perhaps Cervantes isn't a good example, but I'll merely substitute Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and his list of great African and Latin American writers under the "Chaotic Age" appendix in The Western Canon as instances of writers who aren't Caucasian and are appreciated by Harold Bloom. Perhaps Cervantes isn’t a good example, but I’ll merely substitute Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and his list of great African and Latin American writers under the “Chaotic Age” appendix in The Western Canon as instances of writers who aren’t Caucasian and are appreciated by Harold Bloom.

]]> http://www.girldetective.net/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-4158 Yalie Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:10:03 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=366#comment-4158 You have a point, Geoff. But...Cervantes belongs to a "non-white race"? You have a point, Geoff. But…Cervantes belongs to a “non-white race”?

]]> http://www.girldetective.net/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-4038 Geoff Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:57:38 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=366#comment-4038 I would like to point out that Bloom has much respect indeed for authors both of a non-male gender and a non-white race. He considers Cervantes to be nearly Shakespeare's equal, and he considers Jane Austen's "Persuasion" a "perfect novel" and has similiar respect for female writers such as George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Emily Dickinson. These are just two examples upon many. Also, I have read several interviews with Bloom in which calls the interviewer, male or female, "my dear" and so on. It's just his way. There is no sexism in Harold Bloom, nor any racism, just an appreciation for writers who, in his words, "deserve to be re-read." I would like to point out that Bloom has much respect indeed for authors both of a non-male gender and a non-white race. He considers Cervantes to be nearly Shakespeare’s equal, and he considers Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” a “perfect novel” and has similiar respect for female writers such as George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Emily Dickinson. These are just two examples upon many. Also, I have read several interviews with Bloom in which calls the interviewer, male or female, “my dear” and so on. It’s just his way. There is no sexism in Harold Bloom, nor any racism, just an appreciation for writers who, in his words, “deserve to be re-read.”

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