/lit/ - Literature

What’s the difference between genre fiction and literary fiction?

My English teacher gave us an open ended assignment to pick any book written by someone other than a White man and then write a report and give a presentation on it. Which one should I pick?

What genre of /lit/erature is in its Golden Age right now and which genre is at its lowest point?

Why aren’t more people picking at the Mountains of Madness? I love that one

>>22256983
I don't know any of that and I'm not going to learn.

People always say that nationalism was made up in the Enlightenment.
But isn't nationalism really just an expanded version of tribalist instincts that we have always had? By expanded I mean instead of a small tribe it has grown into a larger nation.

>writer uses "film" and "cinema" instead of "movies"
A scholar and a gentleman.
(Any words you prefer to be used by a writer or author?)

>>20080881
Gravity's Rainbow?

>5-10 page close reading assignment due tomorrow
>haven't started it yet

Wish me luck bros

Hello, linguistics question.

In German, the number seven is
7 sieben [ziːbn̩]

In PIE, which is the supposed origin, it's

*septḿ̥ (cf. Latin septem)

This doesn't seem very close. But in Iberian, which is pre-Indo-European, we have

6 sei
7 sisbi

And in Basque:

6 sei
7 zazpi

What's going on here?

We also have

Fayyumic Coptic (Afro-Asiatic)
6 ⲥⲁⲩ (sau)
7 ϣⲉϣⲃ (šešb)

All I can find about it online is this one forum thread:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-37695.html

>>19790535
>always

Why are we starting with Macbeth?

If you're not studying and reading hard this decade while everyone else wastes time on Twitter an TikTok, you may miss being part of the upcoming cultural renaissance, which will be very strict and elitist, in direct opposition to today's degeneration.

What's your 2022 reading goal?

The way of the future is secularism and atheism. sorry. White western people will never convert in mass to islam, islam has always been a nigger religion for mud people. When a white strays from Christianity its usually towards Buddhism or Hinduism

>>17518649
YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY WAIFU

>>17371921
>Democracy in America by Tocqueville
>1000 pages

>>17138217
>>17138218

2020 almost over. What books are you planning to finish before the clock strikes 2021?

>>16954024
All of the problems of modern philosophy could have been avoided if they had understood the ancients properly, but due to the ill effects of the declining world age in general and the so-called "Renaissance" and "Enlightenment" in particular, the moderns found themselves unable to grasp even Plato or the church fathers, let alone the doctrines of the Pythagoreans or the Eleatics.
We are born in a truly fortunate moment as far as intellectual pursuit is concerned. Since all their efforts burned out and left us with the complete autism of contemporary philosophy, we are now at leisure to ignore them and return again to the ancients who were in every regard their superiors.

>>16869530
>>16869546
Would it be a bigbrain move to try and decipher this using my French and Latin skills and an Italian-English dictionary

What are some good words? I like "adhere", that's a good word.

How would you phrase "Freedom of Speech" so that it can't be used to protect pornography?

Took me 25 hours to read a 600 page book. How bad is this?