/lit/ - Literature

>>12045821
They're called epigraphs

>>12045824
And?

>quotes from the same book at the beginning of the book

>>12045821
>autistic professor writing book on Herodotus adds Greek quotes without translations throughout the work (which is fine) but also quotes Nietzsche in the original German on the first fucking page, again without translation
Christ alive Enoch, chill out.

>last sentence of the previous chapter is quoted at the beginning of the new chapter

>last page of the book has a title drop

>>12045821
>first word of the next page is printed at the bottom of the preceding page

>quotes from MY DIARY DESU at the beginning of the book

>book opens with a Nietzsche quote

>>12045821
>quotes from other works at the beginning of every chapter

>>12045848
for what purpose? isn't the point of an informational book to... Inform? why purposely obscure knowledge if only to either keep it insular and inaccessible but to those of "elite" intelligence (aka the practically useless ability to read both german and attic greek at the same time) or wank oneself off about how learn-ed one is?

>>12045892
The author was Enoch Powell, and the book was published in 1939. It's actually a good book (The History of Herodotus).

>>12045900
>Unionist

>>12045878
>after all these years, I finally found the catcher in the rye
stopped reading and returned it to the library right there

>book begins with "it is said that...."

>book begins with a poem from Schiller and a quote from the Bible

>intertextuality

>>12045821
>Book has a one hundred page introduction including two prefaces.

>>12045900
that doesn't really answer my question

>>12045861
i was about to ask when that ever happened but then again i think i've seen it in a Dan Brown book

>>12045987
>compined with intersexuality

>>12045821
>Modern Finnish Epic poem at the beginnig of a book on the Phenomenology of the Spirit

What did he mean by this ?

>>12045892
Definitely an elitist thing.

>>12046313
I find that rather ignoble

>>12045892

At that time classical education was not rare, and a familiarity with European languages was assumed. Tolstoy wasn't being a dick when he wrote his dialogues in French, that was just the way people talked.

>>12046009
I'm curious to know which one is it and how long is the actual meat of the book.

>>12045821
>quotes from pop songs at the beginning of the book

>>12045821
>character references writer’s previous work as sign of moral degeneracy

>>12046474
Yeh but is still a little elitist, my mum can rattle off a couple more well known French and latin phrases and fit them into conversation which just isn't really taught anymore

>>12045878
Stendhal desu

>>12045848
>starting with the greeks
>not speaking fluent German
never gonna make it, if you cannot understand Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hegel in the first place

>>12045976
>to what is this a reference?