Modern Social Science Research

Harold Bloom was a highly influential literary critic in the contemporary world. In the later stages of his critical career, he redirected his lifelong scholarship toward the field of literary aesthetic education. To address the “aesthetic deficit” arising in an era of rampant multiculturalism, Bloom employed the canon system he established through his aesthetic criticism centered on the concept of the sublime. Through this approach, he sought to implement aesthetic education for the general public based on literary classics, promoting his method of aesthetic reading to encourage readers to prioritize personal inner aesthetic experience over multicultural criticism. By emphasizing the role of the subject in aesthetic criticism, Bloom provided a framework and paradigm for literary criticism in the post-theory era.

Harold Bloom; Aesthetic education; Aesthetic criticism