/lit/ - Literature

>>2683656

don't you leave me too, slaffy.
i don't think my heart could take it.

>>2384035

I miss tom :(

tommo?

is that you tommo?

>>2071139
Lukacs? The big chump of twentieth century Lit-theory?

Guattari? As a stand alone philosopher and not just a some psychoanalyst Deleuze picked up for credibility?

Merleau-Ponty and Popper in the same group?

But yeah, the internet encyclopedia has some great articles that will make quick work of a lot of this for you.

How come Wenders and Herzog haven't been mentioned?

I love those guys

>>2043001
>Offended?
Come on dood, we're bandying opinions here. No one should get offended.

I feel like justifying my tastes in British Victorian literature, please read on and respond as appropriate, anon. It's all too easy to get all cynical about Dicken's prose, the-whole-writing-to-maximise-word-count-and-thus-writing-fee thing etc., but I also think it's legitimate: the long sentences flow pretty nicely, sure, but they can only do a good job with that hearty good humour he's known for and a certain mawkishness taints all his pathic language. Some sentences are plain ugly, in places and ways that they don't need to have been. This is small fry for criticism, I'll admit, but distinguishing among top tier authors like Eliot and Dickens.

What really makes the difference is Dickens' plain freaking commercialism. Little Nell in Old Curiosity Shop is just this sickeningly bloated object of pathos, souped up and meated out to such an extent that, to a discerning mind, she's become an absurdity. Moralism in general is plain poor in Dickens. In the end, it's pretty uninnovative, unintellectual stuff, fine for some but maybe not for me.

Dickens does have consistency on his side, and strong characterization as well, I'll give you that.

why do people always change /lit/?

Or perhaps i'm the one who is failing to change.

>>1774137

... exactly.

I only hope he meant 'live' in an ironic sense. I don't know it just seems totally corrosive to his ideas about the importance of integrity and the negation of hope.

Maybe he meant 'live' in an ironic sense.

I know how you feel OP.

I truly do.

>>1705591

I'll definitely check him out, thanks d&e.

>>1705596
>>1705598
>>1705601
>>1705603
Behold, another decent, productive literature thread sabotaged by jellymad anons and onionring.

;_________;

Goodspeed on your gap year brother.

I hope things with your ladyfriend turned out okay.

>mfw /lit/ will have a gaping void for the next 9 months and i'm not talking about onionring's vagina

>>1579113

truman is still here

>>1550926

Truman is still cool ;_;

>mfw i'm banned