/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVLpdzhcU0g

>>21648375
https://youtu.be/cVLpdzhcU0g?t=548

>>18221089
I don't know why 4chan deleted my image.

I'm so sorry, Anon, but your favorite book isn't a classic. Please go hang out with the Harry Potter nerds and discuss your literature that doesn't matter.

>>15261365
It'll take a hundred or so years before anything written now becomes recognized as a classic. It has to heavy influence future novels. Nowadays the authors everyone gushes over have incredibly gimmicky prose and there's a chance they might not last long into the century.

>>6703112

>Shakespeare changed the English language forever
>you use words and phrases he coined without even knowing it
>before him, no author had written so much about the human condition
>before him, no author had written characters with psychological depth
>he is undeniably a genius
>one of his greatest tragedies was about a heroic Moore and expressly focused on the hardships of being a black man in a white dominated society
>her only argument is "we need literature that better speaks to ethnically-diverse students."

She's entitled to her opinion, but she's doing her students a disservice.

>>6210290
because it meets all the qualifications of a classic

>>6115250
Shakespeare wrote about Freudian psychology, existentialism, and racial equality centuries before any of those things actually existed. No author has ever written so much, so beautifully, about the human condition before he did. No author has changed the English language as much as he has.