/lit/ - Literature

>>10467886
>relativism is true
>relativism
>true

>>10232343

>>10216975
At face value, she seems like a smart and interesting person. She reads and plays the piano, but I don't find it attractive when she just hangs out with a bunch of guys and cockteases all of them. With every passing day I realize more and more that Schopenhauer was right.

>a thread died for this

how do I stop worrying if I'm pleasing my idols?

>Harold Bloom isn't my idol

>posts about starting with the Greeks
>doesn't deadlift at least 3X his bodyweight, can't recite 1200 verses of poetry from memory

Who will be the great defender of literature and literature studies when Bloom is gone?

>>9551639
That one's pretty funny, I agree

>>9505208
do you not understand what we do here?

This guy comes up to you and say that your favorite writer has no discernible talent.

What to do ?

>book isn't a 1000 page essay on how good hamlet was

Can anyone else not stand this man's writing/criticism?

He's in a couple of forewords in books I own, and I have read a decent amount of his own critical works.

All he does is compare on author to older authors, go off on tangents about anecdotes to do with the author, and then state which works he thinks are the "strongest".

It seems like he's just flexing his literary knowledge instead of providing any criticism of substance.

>>9403593
>caring about "spoilers"

Where do I start with him /lit/? Is he a meme or worth the while?

>>9364150
>Criticises an argument for being retarded and fallacious

>God works in mysterious ways so we can't no nuffin

End yourself, my dude

>Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace
What did he mean by this?

/lit/, how do you recommend someone majoring outside of the humanities learns how to read critically? I often find myself finishing a book and realising that while I enjoyed it, I didn't really glean anything of value from it, and couldn't discuss it much beyond outlining the basics of the plot and making comments like "the prose was good".

My hope is to achieve a level of competency that allows me to write book reviews of good quality. Not necessarily as a career, but as a metric for gauging my own understanding of a work. I just ordered "How to read literature like a professor" and would be open to any other advice literature students or self taught people may have for me.

Thank you.

>he doesn't have a personal meta-epistemology of poetics

>liking things that Harold Bloom doesn't
ISHYGDDT

>>9133492
>science does nothing

>mfw all these plebs

Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th’ Aonian mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all temples th’ upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for thou know’st; thou from the first
Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss,
And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That, to the height of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.

All of the best living authors are going to die in the next decade.

Thomas Pynchon, 79
Don Delillo, 80
Cormac Mccarthy, 83
Joseph Mcelroy, 86
William H Gass, 92

You get to decide who lives long enough to finish more work. You are allotted the time to complete 1 novel, 1 novella, and 1 meme length book to distribute among them. Who gets what?