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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      4. But by the 1970s, Bloom's individualism (inherited from the romantics) was already atrophying into a kind of maniacal narcissism: all that counted was the strong writer and the strong reader (the strongest of whom was Bloom), a veritable God-like creature.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      5. Some context: Bloom, like other Yale bigwigs, responded badly to the social movements of the 1970s, particularly feminism. Yale English was notoriously hostile to female grad students. And Bloom preyed on students. His hyper-individualism was intellectual counterpart to this.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      6. Hyper-individualism is everywhere in Bloom -- in the exaltation of Emerson, in gnosticism, in how his pathway to Judaism was mysticism, in his revival of hoariest idea of "genius." That hyper-individualism, I'd argue, was rooted in his rejection of social movements.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      7. Bloom's arguments for divorcing literature from its social context - for seeing writers as God-like beings who create but are not created - was a retreat from his own best work and also, sadly, a way of justifying an elite that was beyond normal morality.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      8. Bloom's attacks on PC and "the schools of resentment" reads a little bit differently once you realize what a hot house of chauvinism Yale English was when he ruled the roost.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      9. In the long run, the 1970s Bloom (which was the Bloom he remained till his death) will be seen as of a piece, the life and work both emblematic of the hyper-individualism of the "Me Decade" & (sorry) neoliberalism.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      10. It's too bad Harold Bloom was so dismissive of popular culture because his "Anxiety of Influence" paradigm really helps illuminate the Joker movie.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      11. The melancholy of Joker comes from what Bloom would call its belatedness, its desire to simultaneously pay tribute to the symbolic father (Scorsese) and also to kill and replace him.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      12. Joker, in the new film, is a fusing of the main characters of two Scorsese films (Taxi Driver & King of Comedy). Robert DeNiro, who played those characters, is in Joker and his character is killed by Joker. Joker is about the desire to kill & replace Scorsese.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      13. The oedipal theme is pretty explicit in Joker (the hero thinks Thomas Wayne is his father & hates him). But it exists not just at the level of plot but also the subtext (in how the Scorsese material is handled). Scorsese has to be eliminated for a fresh start to begin.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Oct 2019

      14. I think Scorsese is of the oedipal drama going on, hence his hostile comments about superhero movies. He's not prepared to give up the throne to this unworthy spawn.

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        1. mark brennan‏ @shaukenaw 15 Oct 2019
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          U ok jeet?

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        1. Summa Cum Lead Gen‏ @seo_keywordz 15 Oct 2019
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          wow what a hot take did not see this coming based on points 1-10... that being said the oedipal point is a pretty intriguing one because I'd believe Scorsese is that petty and Todd Phillips has proven himself to be

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        1. Case‏ @lotsa_texas 15 Oct 2019
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          Seriously?

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        1. Henry Brandt‏ @istoothin 15 Oct 2019
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          Oedipal sons spend a lot more time thinking about dad than dad spends thinking about them. Maybe Scorsese made that remark about superhero movies for the same reason anyone else would.

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        1. Aimée Morrison‏ @digiwonk 15 Oct 2019
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          You are a decent human. But look what Bloom has done to you here: a 14 tweet thread on literary studies and you've only mentioned white dudes. THAT's what links critic Bloom and terrible-human Bloom. It's all white dudes, all the way down.

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        1. Robert‏ @Esurio_ 15 Oct 2019
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          Bloom said that Kurosawa's Ran was one his favorite Shakespeare films. In the original, Lear gives up his throne to two unworthy spawn, and how'd that turn out?pic.twitter.com/GjZ04PKxhw

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        1. Lovey McLoverson‏ @falafelsy 15 Oct 2019
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          This is ridiculous but SO good. This makes me wish I could get you to drop acid & then strike up a conversation.

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        1. Charles Hatfield‏ @charleshatfield 15 Oct 2019
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          Scorsese has perhaps lived long enough to see his work reduced to a set of stylistic mannerisms that can be copped by blockbuster movies?

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