/lit/ - Literature

>>11007936
Bumping this epic thread like everyone else below me will do too

University of Miami student here. I never see anybody else in these threads because it seems nobody under 60 in the entire city reads. Just got my interview for MBA at William & Mary though, so if anyone here goes there I'd enjoy hearing about the community.

>>10851698
Sarasota is a nice town with a lot going on for its size. Are you an arts student? If not, then I don't know if NCF has everything you'd need. They're stellar though if you're an aspiring musician, actor, or other fine arts-type. I imagine you're a freshman. You really ought to stick it out at Tulane, your feet will warm up and you won't feel like leaving so much when you feel more rooted there. New Orleans is a great town, too. But if you really want to go to college in Florida, consider UMiami (though expensive for most people) or Rollins College in Winter Park. That's a lovely little place.

Any academics here? There's an article I want to read but I can't access and I'd be eternally grateful if you upload it to Megaupload or post screenshots of it here.

>Justice in Migration: A Closed Borders Utopia by Lea Ypi

Pic unrelated

>>10516857
Moses
John
Jung

>>10497806
irrelevant pictures are the best

>>10319387
If that's a Jew sign me the fuck up.

>>10166605
No, they are not the first novels. The first proper 'novel' was perhaps the Epic of Gilgamesh, although there were codified stories before that but I believe they are lost or incomplete.

Please understand this about the Japanese: a lot of their culture is made up nonsense from the Meiji era because they felt they were lesser to America, France and Britain. They dredged up the Nihonshoki and Genji Monogatari and so forth from the obscure annals of history and then presented that as their definitive 'great work' when *no one* had ever heard of these things before. I may be mixing up my history but I believe these stories were first written down only to prove to the Chinese that they aren't uncultured barbarians.

They are worth reading only for knowing the history of the foundation of the Yamato family cult. They are very important to the foundation of Shinto, as well. Otherwise, no literary value. They aren't an Odyssey, Illiad, Aeniad, or even a Gone with the Wind or Don Quixote.

Ahh shit my mind is all over the place. OP, I forgot to mention that perhaps even more important than any of the writers I have mentioned before is Lafcadio Hearn AKA Koizumi Yakamo. Interesting guy, interesting experiences, quite a good writer. He lived in that halcyon time of 1890-1910s in Japan in the far countryside in Matsue. He wrote about the daily lives of people and the things he saw and all that. He also translated a lot of ghost stories and other tales, also some poetry, into English. Into Japanese he translated a lot of his writings about New Orleans. That is why New Orleans and jazz music is so popular in Japan today. He is necessary reading for people in school there. I value him because, again, his perspective is rare and he could look at things through 'new eyes' and appreciate the differences between what he saw in Japan and what he knew back in Europe and America, even the smallest minutiae that would have otherwise been lost.