/lit/ - Literature

>>13026379
I did study literature formally in university before changing majors to something that will pay the bills. But literature will always be an interest of mine. Lately religion has garnered more personal study from me but the novel and poetry will always be there.

Authors who say they are influenced by authors who are deeply anachronistic from their times should be viewed with suspicion. For example, it would be accurate to say that most contemporary authors are influenced by Hemingway, not Shakespeare, because while someone might like the themes and language of Shakespeare, it is more likely that someone is going to be more directly influenced in actual composition by Hemingway since he was by far the most influential novelist of the 20th century.

>>13024683
This post more or less confirms what I say above. I am sure Faulkner probably expressed appreciation for Shakespeare at various points of his career. After all, he has a novel called Sound and Fury. However it would be more accurate to say Henry James was a greater influence on him than Shakespeare.

>>13025067
This is more or less what they teach about the origins of stream-of-consciousness in university. They say it has its origins in authors who use "free indirect speech" in their prose... Austen being one of the earliest examples. The wiki article on the subject fails to mention that prior to the modernists it is also used with high frequency by Henry James and Joseph Conrad.