/lit/ - Literature

Why are female writers so much better than male ones, at least in Anglophone literature? For every movement and genre, the greatest authors are women. Woolf is peak modernism, Dickinson is peak poetry, George Eliot is peak realism, Charlotte Smith is peak Romanticism. Sure Joyce and Wordsworth and the rest are good, but they can't compare. It's not really like this with other language's literatures, so why is it so with English?

>>16525782
GOD I wish that were me

Give it to me straight, /lit/. Were Freud and Jung just bullshitting?

My TA is giving me increasingly obvious signals that she desires a sexual relationship. On Friday, after the recitation had ended and everyone else had left the room, she cornered me and informed me that I had been "quite assertive" in our class's discussion of the Kierkegaard (it is a philosophy of religion course). As she said this, her hand began to snake its way towards my leg, which nearly quivered at the contact. I was able to steady myself, however, and replied that I found Kierkegaard's thought to be both enlightening and inspirational.

At that, she unbuttoned her top (it was a dark blue blouse, a lovely thing) and asked me in a throaty whisper if I had ever been intimate with a woman in public (those were not her exact words). I answered that I had not, and, fearful for my chastity, spun her around so that I had a clear avenue to the door. She shivered at my dominant behavior and let loose a ragged moan. I could sense her lust was becoming unbearable, and, to my eternal shame, I cannot say I was entirely unmoved. The sensation of my hand against her shapely form, her soft body, grabbed hold and nearly pulled me under, but luckily my copy of Either/Or tumbled from my rucksack at that moment. The sight of it broke me from my sinful state.

I informed the woman that I had to leave, but she began to grope at me with all her feminine might. She implored me to use her, to punish her. I gazed with apprehension upon my TA, her gorgeous bottom swaying before me, begging to be spanked and taken. But not by me. I gathered up my papers and effects and left her there. I hope she managed to put her clothes on before someone found her.

Needless to say I await the next class with fear and trembling.

>>11771028
When did you realize all women are whores even that quiet innocent girl who sits in the back of your uni class and barely says a word is most definitely a whore

Is anyone here in graduate school / has anyone tried to go to grad school for English literature? Is it even possible to become a professor?