/lit/ - Literature

>>11611359
I remember him saying he was doing something new but I cant remember if he actually said anything about what it was

>>11612851
>>11613015
Yes but are they loli vampires

>>7427940
Ok, I'll consider that, but be frank with me, will I really need to go back to say Kant when getting into Analytic philosophy at any point?

/lit/ I got hold of seven issues of The New Yorker from this fall. I had high expectations because I had never read contemporary short stories that made it to a "top tier" magazine.

They were all shit. Is that normal?

/lit/, when you read Lolita, did you see anything that his grad student saw?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPnxLNFzA8s

Besides one analysis the homosexuality bit his lecture seems interesting and I wonder how much I miss when I don't know the information he knows. I also wonder how much of this is substantial or just making connections where there aren't any.

>>6551373
Fours years? Then what the fuck were all those TAR threads over the past couple of years? I mean I haven't noticed any in the last year but I always thought I was just missing them since I don't go on /lit/ as much as I used to.

Jesus am I mis-remembering my last 5 years here by taking 5 year old memories and thinking they happened last year

/lit/, a friend of mine asked me to edit and critique a big essay of his, I did this, but now he is strictly against one of my recommendations.

"This paper explores the plausibility of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s account of being-in-the-world as a theory of perception. We are interested in establishing a connection between Merleau-Ponty’s account and more analytic theories of perception..."

He won't cut the "We" thing.

"Our intention is neither to offer a systematic analysis of..."
"Instead, we aim to show how the notion of..."
"...which we hope will facilitate discussion between..."

Am I wrong? He says he really likes it aesthetically and that this is more a preference thing. I told him that it is just weird and confusing for the reader since he assumes the reader is part of this "we", sometimes, sort of.

Anyway am I wrong?

When you are reading you'll most likely imagine what is going to happen after what you have just read. If someone is killed you might wonder how this will affect other characters.

This is the reader injecting things into the story. You may be wrong about your predictions or right, and that will affect how you feel towards the book. You might double guess yourself and wonder if the author is up to something, said another way, if the characters and plot are up to something you can't imagine. You may have been wrong about how Francis reacted to Stefan's death but something feels fishy to you.

You can try and trace this back to the author setting this up, making the story on purpose mysterious, but the author couldn't have possibly set up a story where the reader will necessarily react in one way. Asking /lit/ their opinion on any book is evidence of this.

We see faces in toast. We'll project into books.

Postmodern literature fights against resolutions that create meaning, arguing that even the smallest resolutions or revelations that are meaningful are not possible or are not true to modern life.

Am I wrong? I really dont fucking know.

>>6361754
>While I don't think all the backlash she got was deserved, she honestly doesn't seem like a good person herself.

OK. You need to stop yourself and seriously consider what you just said and what you said eariler about what you didn't like about anti-GG

>But the kind of crap Anti-GG pulls seems so much worse. The public shaming, social pressure, doxing, attacking neutral parties, the list goes on.

>She doesn't seem like a good person so she somewhat deserves public shaming, social pressure, doxing, and attacks, the list goes on.
>Because I don't this stranger who I have never met or care about seems like a good person

You sound like the thought police that you are supposed to be against.

The rest I roughly agree with. Both sides suck, most people suck at debate and politics.

>>6298808
I don't know if there is a proper way of doing it besides don't get distracted and focus, just like anything else you read.

It can be tough but it is worth it. I don't know about you, but if it is challenging and not about some superfluous topic it will be better than if it were not challenging.

There isn't a definitive guide as far as I know. Honestly just reading the wikipedia article on philosophy should be all the background and context you'll need. You'll have an ok summary to work with of philosophy itself and it's main branches of thought.

Philosophy as a recreational pursuit is not fruitless, far from it. If you were to study philosophy consistently and frequently for and year and then be able to find me after one year, you would thank me and everyone else for telling you to do it. Do it.

Don't know where to start? Do this.

1. Something by Plato, one of Socratic Dialogues. Look them up and choose whatever is the most interesting.

2. A textbook on logic (critical reasoning). Trust me, just fucking, trust me.

3. Look up all branches of philosophy and choose the one which is the most interesting. Study one the founding texts of that branch (most likely Greek but not necessarily).

4. Eventually study philosophy of language and come to terms with your own mortality. Find courage and satisfaction in all that you do

>>5994745
You don't even know man.

We are talking about a young black man making a youtube video that is roughly 10 minutes long discussing the possible tensions between white female alt lit writers and black alt lit writers. He spends nearly 7 of those minutes apologizing and making qualifiers so that he doesn't generalize. He really is trying and tripping over himself to be kind and understanding because everyone was flipping out.

He posts it and they all flip the fuck out on him. Such shit. I didn't agree with what he was saying but he was in no way being mean or unkind and they just were asses to him.

/lit/, I am applying to work at a small bookstore that just opened up in my town. Any advice on what they would be looking for? Never worked for a bookstore before.

What does everyone think of Brief Interviews of Hideous Men?