/lit/ - Literature

You would need to have ridiculously low standards for yourself and your fellow man to take pride in that.

>Its a Marathe chapter

>>10599341

>>10110887

his pain is proportionate to the lack of discernible talent

>>9853789

>its a Milton makes a reference to an obscure arcane text that only 3 people have ever read episode

>>9700922

thats a mighty fine rare Bloom mate, mid if I borrow it, I only have this close up

>open TheSorceror'sStone.pdf
>control + f "stretched his legs"
>145,980 results

>>9631719
>there are living people with English degrees who have never heard of the most entry level of entry level critics

>>9559707
>"One would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to recognise that Shakespeare's grand, equivocal comedy The Merchant of Venice is nevertheless a profoundly anti-semitic work,” wrote literary critic Harold Bloom in his 1998 book Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human. In spite of his “Bardolatry,” Bloom admitted elsewhere that he’s pained to think the play has done “real harm … to the Jews for some four centuries now.”

Even Bloom admits most English and Literature courses are garbage these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVWiwd0P0c0

>>8799064
>That would be to say that the verse-writer Felicia Hemans is a considerably larger figure than her contemporary William Hazlitt. Or that our era’s Felicia Hemans, Sylvia Plath, is a considerably larger literary figure than, say, the late Wilson Knight. This is clearly not the case. Miss Plath is a bad verse writer. I read Knight with pleasure and profit, if at times wonder and shock. These are obvious points but obviously one will have to go on making them. Almost everything now written and published and praised in the United States as verse isn’t even verse, let alone poetry. It’s just typing, or word processing. As a matter of fact, it’s usually just glib rhetoric or social resentment. Just as almost everything that we now call criticism is in fact just journalism.

How do you criticize literature? More specifically, how can there be a specific method when literature is art and therefore appeals to the senses and doesn't yield reproducible results like hard sciences?

>>8539747
>You are also sad and seeking refuge in intellectualism. You're considering that maybe the warmth that intelligence doesn't provide you may be found in seeking God.

That's Bloom. Look at his eyes. Doesn't he look discerning?
Those are the eyes of a man who can not find any discernible talent, yet he is barely in his eighties.

How can someone acquire is wisdom eyes?

>>8448961
This sad fuck.

>>8418033
I tried to find CP when I was an underage lad because I thought it would be 13 year olds fucking, I was very wrong.

ITT: Authors who post on /lit/

>>8256128

Good god this man's face is like a permanent reaction image

>xXx_No_DiScErNaBlE_tAlEnT_xXx@geocities.com

>It's a Marathe chapter

>It's a Bloom tries to "get" postmodern new sincerity but he can't discern any talent episode

>>7953279

>book speaks