/lit/ - Literature

>>19004491
>female

lmfao what a dude

>>16155527
nothing you say matters tho

Post questions that don't deserve their own threads, epin maymays, or just general observances and opinions.

Books/sources to help me understand/recognize plot unity/structure?
I'm adequate enough, or confident enough, in other aspects of reading, so inb4 >reading for plot.

>>15422406
For me, it's the verisimilitude. Despite it being a fantasy, the work he put into realizing each of these cultures is breathtaking and I closer to reality than any other work of its genre. Obviously, the characters aren't quite as three-dimensional, and the dialogue can't be too stylized at times, but that's no detriment to the work any more than epic language was to Homer.
I find the historical endeavors particularly impressive, especially in the scene where Gandalf tells Frodo of Smeagol's relation to Hobbits:
>"And even Bilbo’s story suggests the kinship. There was a great deal in the background of their minds and memories that was very similar. They understood one another remarkably well, very much better than a hobbit would understand, say, a Dwarf, or an Orc, or even an Elf. Think of the riddles they both knew, for one thing.’
That last line alone really grounded it for me.

>>15373066

What do literary critics mean when they refer to a poet as "prophetic"?

>>14870100
>start by talking to her the way you would talk to a man
>dont open with the hard date invite

Once her mother had left the pool and retired to their room, Leanna finally felt the warmth of the pool water licking against her pores. The hulking man whom she had seen--the man whose eyes, though surely his head never turned, seemed to follow her--was no longer stewing in the corner underneath the rushing spout. Despite the newfound warm of the water, Leanna felt herself grow cold as a shadow loomed from behind her, and it stretched far above and over her head in some oppressive arc.

She heard a voice indifferent and cold as the Devil's, saying, "Omae wa mou shindeiru."

"N-nani!"

>>13863306

Critique Commencing.
>>13314574
Uninspiring OP subject and comment, but the picture was noteworthy. A lost opportunity, all in all.
>>13314807
Good direction but develop the office and the cereal eater to be more rewarding to the reader.
>>13314821
Try posting literature, writing, anything really, besides what you posted. Thanks.
>>13314859
The discomforts need to be more poignant and organized, although there is a dreary and exhausted vibe to the speech, I'm not sure if that's intended or should be foremost.
>>13315000
The knock on the door was in bad faith, you realize too late, as the cobalt and azure festooned Crips burst through and over your clattering door, their sable phalli already in their hands, pulled over elastic waistbands or through highly starched denim zippers, all careful not to be seen tugging, only brandishing themselves towards >>13315000, drawn to the inveterate neghole much as dew to flower petals.
>>13315716
Don't get too lost in expression, which is easy to do when writing about falling in love. I think the reader might be more interested in the "impact of changing worlds" and "my whole mind had changed along with the place." But you should convey these processes in a way other than reporting upon them as an autobiographer might, unless that's your format. Find some subtle thing in your life that changed as a result of your whole mind and world changing. You threw out an old second toothbrush, you cleaned something you hadn't paid attention to for awhile, even bathing, hygiene. Don't be Dunham-esque about it but be real for your reader's sake. Your only job is to feel and write.
>>13316174
Nonplussed. Maybe not my genre. >>13319341

>>13316090
I do not care about a Hallmark card exploded into two thick paragraphs. So what? Why do I care about these people? What happened today that's so notable?
>>13316442
Recalls an admiration for the Pale King, but shies from the Professor Wallace's technique, a good somnolent exercise.
>>13318243
The inner voice of the modern person should be documented more. I like the inspiration and direction. Makes you worry in a good way about the character.
>>13318655
I want to see more itinerant criminal poets. Please write an ornery anthology.
>>13318817
I'd have spelled "2" as "two" so as to not look utterly unserious.
>>13319016
What a bore.
>>13319093
Pretty, could be embroidered and hung in Ms. Tartt's lighthouse solarium reading room.
>>13319117
Nora the Flora
>>13319341
>>13319346
Make the reader care immediately. You must write urgently.
>>13319355
Oh my goodness.
>>13319422
Dude just re-write it.
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What does he write?

>>12702759
>quizzically

>>11238807
>translated by Longfellow

>>11078586
I loved A Room of One's Own and couldn't help agreeing with 99% of its content. Then again, I've never been a bitter robot or /pol/tard.

Despite that, and despite that it was intended for women writers, I couldn't help identifying with it and applying it to myself, though not in a literal sense; I work full time, but in the evening, and when I get home I'm too tired to read and too wound-up to sleep, so all I can do is drink beer until I go to sleep but I wake up too hungover to read, then go back to work. If only I had a fuckload of money to sit on so I could write and read full time.

tl;dr, my post contributes nothing to this thread and has very little, if at all, to do with OP's topic.

If I may, however, I can only say that, no, women should not be compensated for what they were denied in previous generations without equal responsibility or accountability, and, no, the Canon should not be de-emphasized but learned from. If your girlfriend should bother to read A Room of One's Own, she should learn that women should not work on destroying the tower men have built, but building their own equally tall, then maybe if they can learn to work with on these issues, build a tower together. (The towers in this case are allegories, in case anyone didn't get that.) Woolf never despises men, and never proposes they should stand aside. Most feminists haven't read Woolf anyway, and that's just sad.

>>10913293

The character is pretentious, so then... the writing is pretentious? I don't understand. I also didn't get any sense that the writing was meant to be taken as satirical. You're wrong.

>>10876765
The Nag Hammadi scripts.

>>10585363

/sci/, /his/, /lit/ and /mu/. The only boards worth a crap.

I think people hate him because they hate the whole pseud thing... I had a period of my life where I was the same way, then I just learned to let it go. People who are impressed by pseuds weren't going to understand, and the people who understand are never impressed by pseuds.

>>9877867
if you haven't read the Greeks, you have no business reading Nietzsche who constantly references and is explicitly influenced by them.

That being said, the more of him you read the better you understand any of him

He wrote On the Genealogy of Morals with the intention of having the rest of his work more accessible, so I would start with that

>>9810419

Almost everything this guy has ever done.

>>9693431

>musical about a bunch of black people "rising up" and killing their white oppressors
>haha it's not political propoganda though :^)