/lit/ - Literature

religion will always be around until people no longer fear death.

I don't even think I would want to eradicate religion from the world, the debate is too productive and fun.

also george walter bush wasn't such a bad president.

typed 'books written in 2011' into google and virtually every page was about BEST BOOKS WRITTEN BY WOMEN WOMEN CAN WRITE BOOKS TOO OMGGG

>2011
>Subvocalising

>>1949862

>Goethe
>Average

that one placement invalidates the entire list.

Anyone with half a brain will see engraving your skin for decorative purposes as unforgivably tasteless, and the exploitation of the good art as a travesty.

Just letting you know how it is.

Hey OP, maybe you should go to a school that doesn't try to ram theory down your throat? Why are all your "literature" courses politicized along ethnic or sexual lines? Presumably you are pursuing an English Lit credit, not a degree in race and GLBT studies.

>>1741736

I'm not suggesting that most people are psychopaths.

I don't understand how you can be happy about terminating a man's life unless you stop seeing him as a man and as an object of evil.

You are trying to make it sound as if by killing him you were exacting some justice or some noble punishment by describing his life as something he owned rather than was.

He is dead now and I hope his blood makes you nauseous enough to realise that trivialising human life is not something which can ever be justified.

>>1617302

christ you're smug.

I don't even think you're trolling.

>with someone like Black Raven i could just be me.

Dat subtle satire.

>>1576627
No.

"The only truly objective comparison you can make to assess the quality of literature is it's influence on civilisation."

What about religious scriptures?

Perhaps the only reason why they have influenced civilisation (including literature) is because they were enforced so dogmatically by religion which kept the scriptures eternally popular.

>>1561906

"Villain, I have done thy mother."

>>1561915

I understand the basic structure of the book, but the ridiculous detail and number of atrocities in the play and the shallow prose are seen by critics like Bloom to be evidence for it as being a parody of Marlowe who was Shakespeare's contemporary.

>>1503514
>>1503509

mfw i read this

>Top 100 books of all time
>Harry Potter near the top of the list
Fuck that shit.

Anyway,22

>>1356541

Just here to inform you that Harold Bloom has TWO books dropping next year: one about his theory of influence and another about the KJV as literature. That's right: 2011 is Bloomsyear.

Fuck year.

>political and social themes

It's pretty cool but I dunno where it's really going

What does /lit/ think of this man?

>>983417

>he doesn't know who Harold Bloom is

>my face when I'm alive and fuck your shit

>>889005

> Cyclops - who is totally awesome.

>>836910