/lit/ - Literature

We can associate again if /fit/ finally graduates from basic-bitch stoicism and sudoku japanese man.

embarrassing stuff OP

I will never tire posting /lit/erati like this

>>16254236
You must be new here

>>10532646
Bloom positively slobbers over Corncob tortilla so try again

>>8909528
>>8909583

>It seems to me that what you're doing is extremely problematic.
>Yes, it is problematic.

>>7349176
lol sheep

>>6871453
this is the only good answer so far

Harold Bloom, DFW, Tao Lin, Pynchon

>>4544124
>how he transformed the English language.
>not how he literally transformed human beings with his innovative characters

>>4403386
http://secondparadise.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/why-the-idf-reads-deleuze/

Forgot link.

>>4216248
>>4216253
>>4216256

>Harry is going to die in our lifetime, and there will be no one to defend us from these savages

The end is nigh

who is fucking with the archive

the greatness of edge lord must not be tampered w/

>>4013277
>Not addressing Whitman

"No Western poet, in the past century and a half, not even Browning or Leopardi or Baudelaire, overshadows Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson. [...] These six major poems, Song of Myself and the five lesser but still extraordinary meditations, are what matter most in Whitman. To find their aesthetic equivalent in the West one must go back to Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, Holderlin, Shelley, and Keats. Nothing in the second half of the nineteenth century or in our now almost completed century matches Whitman's work in direct power and sublimity, except perhaps for Dickinson."- Bloomy

>>3976017
The word you are looking for is "realistic"

Do you read multiple books at a time if you are interesting in multiple topics?
What is the best way to go about this?

>>3928151
“I pick up a current Companion to Ibsen and I find articles on ‘Ibsen and the realistic problem drama’ and ‘Ibsen and feminism.’ Why not ‘Ibsen and orientalism’ or ‘Ibsen and Inuit lesbian studies?’ Why not ‘Ibsen and big media” ?

Yeah, /lit/ why not Ibsen and Inuit lesbian studies?

This book sucks. Go back to /tv/

What are things that can just ruin a potentially good book (such as bad dialogue/characters/plots, etc)?

sage because DFW thread

>>3772234

>Discounting a poet on the basis of your reductive misunderstanding of one of his poems
>Thinking that Baudelaire, Frazer and Shakespeare constitute 'obscure' references

Oy vey!

Do you guys think I need to add a 'respectively' to the end of:

'the essay insists upon the validity of generic heterogeneity – advocating a distinction between texts of 'adventure' and 'character' (...)

It's late and I can't quite work out whether it's necessary or not. Thanks, bros.

How would you describe 4chan to an academic?

Remember, the academic won't understand you unless you use scholarly jargon.