{"id":24637,"date":"2011-07-13T00:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=24637"},"modified":"2011-07-13T00:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T04:21:43","slug":"frye-alert-anatomies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/07\/13\/frye-alert-anatomies\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye Alert: Anatomies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cHGu11GL9qw\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cHGu11GL9qw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bloom interviewed by the <\/em>New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/2011\/07\/books\/canonizers-feast\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of Harold Bloom&#8217;s <em>The Anatomy of Influence <\/em>in <em>The Brooklyn Rail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to be fully comfortable with Bloom when it comes to Frye. Frye himself <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2010\/07\/11\/harold-bloom\/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested<\/a> that Bloom&#8217;s &#8220;chief anxiety of influence&#8221; related to him. The reviewer notes, for example, that Bloom says he derived his title from Burton&#8217;s <em>The Anatomy of Melancholy<\/em>, which he claims to love. It is also, of course, an unmistakable echo of <em>Anatomy of Criticism<\/em>, which Bloom recently claimed he can no longer read.<\/p>\n<p>From the review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bloom has carried the banner for \u201csecular canonization\u201d for a long time, and notes that he fought for it first with the distinguished critic Northrop Frye and later against the New Cynicism. \u201cFor more than half a century I have tried to confront greatness directly, hardly a fashionable stance,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I see no other justification for literary criticism in the shadows of our Evening Land.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is this &#8220;secular canon&#8221; established?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The weapon of choice in Bloom\u2019s arsenal is the pronouncement. The book abounds in statements that can only be accepted or denied and that are not supported by anything more than the power of his assertions and explanations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This nicely encapsulates the fact that the subjective response at the centre of Bloom&#8217;s criticism is only on the periphery of Frye&#8217;s. It is also a reminder that while criticism may include value judgments, it cannot be based on value judgments.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Allan&#8217;s earlier post on <em>The Anatomy of Influence <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2011\/05\/25\/new-on-the-shelf-harold-blooms-the-anatomy-of-influence\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cHGu11GL9qw Bloom interviewed by the New York Times Here&#8217;s a review of Harold Bloom&#8217;s The Anatomy of Influence in The Brooklyn Rail. It&#8217;s difficult to be fully comfortable with Bloom when it comes to Frye. Frye himself suggested that Bloom&#8217;s &#8220;chief anxiety of influence&#8221; related to him. The reviewer notes, for example, that Bloom says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frye-alert"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frye Alert: Anatomies - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/07\/13\/frye-alert-anatomies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frye Alert: Anatomies - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cHGu11GL9qw Bloom interviewed by the New York Times Here&#8217;s a review of Harold Bloom&#8217;s The Anatomy of Influence in The Brooklyn Rail. 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