/lit/ - Literature

Hey, OP back here for a few final answers before bed. I'm glad the thread has gained the traction it has.

>>18581865
I actually read Marias for the way he structures his stories, rather than any profound emotional connection. I enjoy the imagery he uses, like the doorman who keeps losing track of the year in All Souls. Little memorable details, and a rambling quality I enjoy, though Sebald is much better.

>>18581865
I have not, but I do like the Dutch painters.

>>18583343
It completely depends on what the institution prefers, which should be easy to check. MLA is a safe bet when in doubt though.

>>18583399
Maybe I will a few days after this one dies.

>>18583458
Admissions for what? In the UK I had to do an MA before my PhD, and the application process, statement, and writing sample was completely different. Ultimately you want to be engaging with critics, but using them the shape and springboard your own ideas rather than parroting them. It comes down to excellent knowledge of subject matter (and that sort of erudition shows itself effortlessly in academic writing), as well as original argumentation.

>>18583578
I've posted about it elsewhere in the thread but yes, I have been on 4chan since 2009. Scary to think it. I still feel young as ever so it's strange to think I'm an oldfag now. I enjoy taking part in some discussions, but the superficiality of conversation, trolling, and general immaturity tends to drive me to other boards in my downtime (/pol/, /tv/ and occasionally /his/ being my favourites). I also spend more time than ever on YouTube, watching videos on history and lectures on literature. There's a great lecture series on Greek tragedy called 'The Philosophy of Tragedy' by Michael Davis that I always recommend to students with an interest in Renaissance literature, but it would be of interest to anyone who enjoys English Literature.

>>18583597
I would corroborate this post's emphasis on publication. Even if you only rework an essay and submit it to a magazine of some kind, rather than a peer-reviewed journal, it would help.

>>18583690
Oof. Incredibly difficult to narrow it down, so instead I'll recommend books I dont see talked about on /lit/ as often:

>Middlemarch by Eliot
>Austerlitz by Sebald
>Seven Storey Mountain by Merton
>Conservatism by Scruton

>>18388049
I think that's pretty much it. Of course it shows Satan's immense hubris that he considered himself equal to God in reason, and if he hadn't been BTFO immediately prior to this scene he would have claimed equal force as well

>>17861352
This image is good but will take years and years

>>17861414
Good effort post, this is a condensed list but can be read in shorter time and has the essentials

>>17861618
Completely irrelevant to the Western literary tradition

>What is hell?
>And who is going there?
Discuss your favorite writer's approach to the subject. I'll start with Jamie Joyce:

-- Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.