/lit/ - Literature

i'll beat the shit out of you

post-modern.......


oh i get it
lul, cool list

>>1219685
POSTmodernISM according to Ihab Hassan. Then again this man is a cocksucker so he could very well be wrong.

Tripfag trying to get attention? In MY /lit/??

>>1219709
That is generally what people do when they make threads bro. Opinions on tier-list plz

NO ONE GIVES A SHIT. GO AWAY TRIPFAG

Okay /lit/ I made it so that you can actually read it now ^_^

I would react to the sagers, but I respect this opinion and wish I could compartmentalize literary genres this well... when I am more well-read.

>>1219754
That's cool. I've left out quite a few movements and periods that I've felt aren't all that important or are particularly derivative on larger movements. People can feel free to contribute ones that I've skipped over and why they feel these are important

bump

>>1219888
>POSTmodernISM according to Ihab Hassan
what's this?

>>1219897
The emphasis on ISM is to emphasise that the movement comes after the modernist movement and not modern time as we know it, 'the modern', and a suggested successor or reaction to modernism.
The POST is to emphasize the emergence of a literary form, it's the POST that a lot of critics have issues with because it suggests somehow of 'being over' modernism or beyond it or whatever, when what is wanted to be signifie is simply the historical emergence of the movement after modernism. It all seems a bit unnecessary but what can I say, the guy's got a dumb, suspicious name, he can't be trusted.

I think his famous text on the matter is The Dismemberment of Orpheus, could be mistaken.

Bob, stop eating so much cheese

>>1219932

lol

>>1219937
yeah, he could be jewish....
anyway, does he only refers to postmodernism regarding literature ?

>GOD TIER
what I like

>BAD TIER
what you like

>SHIT TIER
Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ

>absurdism
>bad

>>1219955
seems like it may be you who is the edgy one here....

>people responding seriously to D&E
lol

>Absurdism
>in bad tier

>>1219978
It's not like they'd have the ability to n e way

Anyway what do you guys think is so great about absurdism, come on now

>>1219991
it's like.. all weird and funny and stuff

*does the randome dance while a dodo walks by*

>>1219991
>I DON'T LIKE TO HAVE FUN EVER

>>1219994
you're funny. i like you.

Absurdism done right: Harold Pinter
LOL SO RANDUM XD Absurdism: Ionesco

>>1219991
same, but replace absurdism with faggot roleplaying dungeons and dragons game

>>1220001
harold pinter is a pretty cool guy

also, just bothered to actually look at this thread, did you seriously post a tier list of literary styles

just fuck you, holy freakin crap

Okay I fixed this for you

i'm together with everything in every tier ever because the universe is dynamic and nothing is objective

>>1220054
>i'm together with everything in every tier ever because the universe is dynamic and nothing is objective

not even that statement amirite?

>>1220048
>spic lit, and chaucer not regarded highly
Fixing is not quite the same as taking a shit on my beautiful little list :(

>>1220061
it's whatever you want it to be

god tier: postmodern romanticism

whogivesafucktier: everything else

>>1220049
>Atlas Shrugged better than One Hundred Years of Solitude and Catch-22

>>1220061

Chaucer has two worthwhile stories, both of which are only worthwhile because of the characters telling them

Spic lit (the best kind) is just Faulkner or Verlaine in the jungle or the plains, that kind of imitation can never be better than mid tier

>>1220073
I mean I agree with you on the spic lit

>both of which are only worthwhile because of the characters telling them
And not because with Chaucer we have the emergence of the Author and the sheer amount of innovations he pulls off in the Tales on the Romance Genre. Right.

>>1220081

>the sheer amount of innovations he pulls off in the Tales on the Romance Genre

Might as well start praising shitty sci-fi that--wait for it--THIS time (oh fuck) the villain turns out to be PEOPLE

Harold Bloom or GTFO

>>1220085
I bet you didn't like Star Wars.

>>1220095
>oedipus complex to explain how poetry moves forward
This is a srs thread for srs theorists, thx

The Rootless - One Day Full Song - 4:30 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpsjfcMBL98

Enjoy

>He thinks that genres can be organized into tiers
>laughinggirls.jpg

>>1220049
>Heart of Darkness in shit tier
>odds that a niggsby made this list: 100%

'pataphysics is all I trust

Fuck all of you pretentious snobs. But please, spend more time worrying whether or not your favorite is considered to be "cool." In this world there is no room to like a book that is not approved by a bunch of wannabe novelists.

>people still getting trolled by that book tier list

>>1220735
>pataphysics
You should be hanged drawn and quartered you miserable son of a bitch

damn my post didnt go through yesterday...

>tier list
how the mighty have fallen.

btw fiction is superior to philosophy in generating discussion of moral issues. dont see the point in philosophy then other than for academics to wank over.

Christ, this thread is still here?

Oops, forgot my sage.

>>1221851

>how the mighty have fallen.
loosen up you old fart

>fiction is superior to philosophy in generating discussion of moral issues

Yes fiction is brilliant at bullshitting and deceiving people into thinking there are moral issues to be discussed. I have never said that fiction is not great at putting a load of shit into people's heads.

>>1220532
>He thinks that genres can be organized into tiers
>laughinggirls.jpg

>genres
>chortlingscholars.targa

sage

heh, this is nice.

Saging.

counter-sage bump, then again who doesn't love a good slave dialectic embedded in their reading material. Tybrax maybe you should have said that literature is useful in helping us coming to terms with the Other.

>49 posts and 8 image replies omitted
>>1221854
>>1221861
>saging for saging's sake

omg its just liek my real mummy & daddy ;_;
h8 u

I'm afraid both of you are intolerable morons, and I really wish you'd run into each other with automobiles.

This thread is wrong on so many levels

>>1221872
You pretend to be a girl in night-clubs right?

>>1221872
dunno what i did wrong or that was nasty here...

but i luv you guys 'till the day i die

>>1221882

You shit up /lit/ with your idiotic cancer, right? Damn, son, you do an effective job at it.

WAIT WHAT

IF ISABELLE IS PORTRAYING ITSELF AS A FEMALE HERE, YOU JUST MADE ONE MAJOR FUCK-UP

WHAT FEMALE CALLS A MAN 'SON' IN THAT CONTEXT? ESPECIALLY WITH 'DAMN' BEFORE?

NONE. EXCEPT MAYBE SOME KIND OF BUTCH...

>>1220096
Whoa, whoa, you've said a lot of stupid shit on these boards, but are you trying to say that Star Wars is actually good? Because that'd be by far the dumbest shit you've said thus far.

>>1221886
Isabelle Hubcap why do you never post threads about Deconstruction, Russian Formalism, the interpretive turn, Ihab Hassan, Harold Bloom, whether Pushkin smoked, Metafiction, Stanley Fish, Arthur Schopenhauer etc? Is it because that is a lot harder than to toddle into threads from on high to advise some clueless degenerates that Heidegger might be something useful to read? not that they should take your advice considering what sort of degenerate slave morality a guy who pretends to be girls in night-clubs operates under, as an academic do you have to subscribe to feminism or queer theory how does that work lol?

>>1221891
if this is capsguy for gods sake kill yourself or go into politics. sick of your "MANO'THEPEOPLE" BS in here.

>>1221900
I'M LIVING A GREAT LIFE, WHY WOULD I EVEN CONTEMPLATE SUICIDE?

>>1221898

Nice. You like Star Wars. You're a homophobe. AND you think that randomly namedropping, acting like a thirteen-year-old boy, and generally using Amazon and Wikipedia as resources is somehow classy or helpful. What a great resume you have. I'm really impressed. No, really. Go back to /b/.

>slave morality

Pic related.

>>1221897
It has all the tokens of a fine, consummate Romance, Implying, I'm sorry I can read it on a higher level than u

bump since this is prob best thread on the frontpage right now.

stop bumping this heap of shit

>>1221913

Listen to this man. This thread was a miscarriage from the moment Deep&Edgy first dumped its bloody horror onto /lit/.

>>1221908
>You're a homophobe
Ah of course, the usual degenerate slander. I MUST be a homophobe/misogynist/racist simply if I acknowledge that I am in various ways or outlooks Superior to homosexuals/women/niggersgooksragheads, just as I must be a hatemongerer for acknowledging that I am superior to dogs/cats/flies in many ways.

>You like Star Wars
>>1221910

>>1221918
WHY DON'T YOU JUST IGNORE THE THREAD?

>>1221919
>Superior to homosexuals/women/niggersgooksragheads
yeah but you admit that you're only superior to women because they are oppressed right?

>>1221919
you're lower than a dog

*spits on your shoes, adjusts towel on head*

>>1221919

Oops. I forgot that almost every tripfaggot on here is a full-time troll. My bad.

If you're not, then I'd advise you to put down the Nietzsche and the Rand, to stop compulsively Wikisurfing and pretending you've read things you haven't, and to go ask your mother for money to go a therapist.

>>1221922
Easier said than done, capsguy.

>>1221923
>yeah but you admit that you're only superior to women because they are oppressed right? No, because I would be admitting to a gross over-simplification.
And 'oppressed' is a lovely way to say "in conditions of relations of power unfavourable to oneself".

>>1221929
yes, i was just checking.

>>1221922

Because I wanted to sage it while I drank some coffee? And I despise Deep&Edgy. He's basically a paradigm case of the obnoxious, undergraduate cuntsnob with rich parents and a bad attitude. Or at least good enough at pretending.

>>1221933
he's actually fat and lonely irl

>>1221939

SURPRISE.

>>1221927
>rand
I have always maintained that Ethical Egoism is hideously flawed, you may have missed the numerous occasions I have said this. What's more ironic is that you're accusing me of, well, a bunch of uselessly inductive shit given the nature of our medium that I won't bother entertaining (namedropping, wikisurfing etc), when you pretty much do the same thing yourself; you suggest "important" books for different people to read and occasionally give an academically-couched opinion on some or other boring ol writer and then you take off; you're kind of like capsguy in that you never say anything remotely insightful, worthwhile or controversial. A lazy academic (and no doubt one of these false academics who spend their time reading instead of thinking)

>>1221933
>>1221939
no he's not & he's not a bourgeois either. comparing him to patrick bateman is a better comparison. he fucks bitches & throws them out the next day, is into lifting/fit/ & probably alot more intelligent than his class mates.

sometimes i wish i could be d&e.

>>1221948
SOMETIMES I WISH I WAS YOU, BECAUSE YOU'RE SO GOOD AT INTERNET ARGUMENTS.

lol @ people who lift weights and somehow take themselves serious

>>1221951
glue 100 pounds of pig fat around your waist and complete the tybrax experience!

>>1221951
you must be fucking blind if you think im replying to legitimate arguments. re-read before replying next time & have some balls to say what you think even if its unpopular.

>>1221942

The only thing you've ever maintained, I'm sure, is your virginity and a peculiarly pungent body odor.

As for a comparison of our "contributions" to this chanboard, I remain confident that most /lit/izens are glad that I don't post offensively useless threads like this one. Otherwise, I contribute what I can, when I can, and one thing I try to refrain from doing is behaving like a dickhead. If only we could say the same for you.

>>1221955
i dont even think im fat anymore, only skinnyfat so w/e. saying im a social retard is prob closer to home but you prob suck at that & thats why im not afraid to tell you.

>>1221948

Ah, and now you understand the answer to this question:

>>1221885

>>1221960

>The only thing you've ever maintained, I'm sure, is your virginity
Too late for that brah, and I didn't even have to pretend I was a woman!

>>1221970
dont even see what wrong with that other than the fucking women part since sex is animalistic, pathetic & disgusting. the rest seem ok to aspire to.

but y u always make me take sides mummy ;_;

>>1221972

...Touché? That's it? Really? Sheesh.

>>1221977

You know, half the time whenever you start talking, I get the creepy feeling that you're actually a toddler. But I know that you're not, so I have this unpleasant mental image of a corpulent, overgrown manchild sitting in a purple beanbag while wearing a Teletubbies t-shirt that's six sizes too small.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously.

Victor-Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ maʁi yˈɡo]) (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more open-minded as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.

>>1221983
cool you couldnt actually continue the small argument we were having there. i dont really care about spelling punctuation & stuff on 4chan at least not in this time of my life soo hard being a middle-class white male :(

also im not fat & im starting to insist on that for my own sake :)

>>1221983
>...Touché? That's it? Really? Sheesh.
Whatever bro you're the one setting the tone here; for such a smart guy you're got the best for invective besides parrotting "namedropping, wikisurfing, virgin". Actually It's like I'm really talking to anon. If you're going to respond, make it something that transcends the boring, harsh noise you've been making or I will not waste any more time with your boring, canon-cocksucking, sexually confused ass

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (English pronunciation: /soʊlʒəˈniːtsɨn/[1] Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]) (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[2] was a Russian[3] and Soviet[3] novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.

>>1221993
this is you

Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лeв Никола́евич Толсто́й (help·info), Russian pronunciation: [lʲev nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj]; September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910), was a Russian writer whom many consider to be the world's greatest novelist.[1][2] His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.[3]
Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi[4] and Martin Luther King, Jr.


SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WHINY LITTLE FUCKS. NO ONE GIVES A FUCK HOW YOU LOOK IN 'REAL LIFE', THIS IS A FUCKING BOARD ABOUT LITERATURE.

YOU'RE MORE IMMATURE THAN ME SOMETIMES, HOW PATHETIC!

>>1221996

>setting the tone here

The tone I'm trying to set here is SAGE.

I couldn't possibly care less about trying to have a meaningful discussion with your stupid ass.

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari?, 14 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

ITT: D&E getting schooled by someone who's actually educated in Philosphy.

his status:
TOLD [ ]
FUCKING TOLD[X]

pic related

Thomas Wiloch (February 3, 1953 - September 4, 2008) was an American author, editor, poet, and illustrator.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Wiloch was "one of a handful of contemporary American masters of the prose miniature," Greg Boyd wrote in Asylum.

Writing in the Gore Letter, Michael Arnzen stated: "Wiloch has been quietly working away in relative obscurity in his own 'niche' for two decades, developing a one-of-a-kind approach to a form he almost entirely owns. Wiloch writes surrealist short-short pieces, often no longer than a page, that are as philosophical as they are whimsical, as clever as they are poetic, and as disturbing as they are intelligent."

According to Bruce Boston, writing in Illumen magazine, Wiloch is "arguably the leading writer of prose poems in the genre field for the last two decades." English writer and artist A.C. Evans wrote in Stride magazine that Wiloch portrays "fragmentary confrontation with alien Otherness described in a symbolic vocabulary of closed rooms, casual catastrophe, uncanny Fortean phenomena, rituals of cruelty, and fleeting visions of transmundane worlds."

>>1222000
gonna throw up my dinner tonight fuck you

>>1222002
>capsguy pretending to be anons white knight again, banishing these tripfag ghouls to the netherrealm
same old, same old.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, pronounced [ˈfʲodər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj] ( listen)),[4] (11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1821 – 9 February [O.S. 29 January] 1881) was a Russian writer and essayist,[5] best known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called the "best overture for existentialism ever written" by Walter Kaufmann.[6] A prominent figure in world literature, Dostoyevsky is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature.[7]

>>1222010
please vomit on your keyboard/monitor combination rendering them useless! good luck!

>>1222006

Aww. Thanks, Brownbear.

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946 and won the Pulitzer Prize in both 1947 and 1974. [1]

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Андреев, 21 August [O.S. 9 August] 1871 – September 12, 1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government.

Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) was a Bohemian–Austrian poet and art critic. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.

He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He also wrote more than 400 poems in French, dedicated to his homeland of choice, the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

ALBERT CAMUS ([ALBƐʁ KAMY ] ( LISTEN); 7 NOVEMBER 1913 – 4 JANUARY 1960) WAS A FRENCH ALGERIAN AUTHOR, PHILOSOPHER AND JOURNALIST, WHO WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1957. HE WAS A KEY PHILOSOPHER[CITATION NEEDED] OF THE 20TH-CENTURY, WITH HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK BEING THE NOVEL L'ÉTRANGER (THE STRANGER).
IN 1949, CAMUS FOUNDED THE GROUP FOR INTERNATIONAL LIAISONS WITHIN THE REVOLUTIONARY UNION MOVEMENT, WHICH WAS OPPOSED TO SOME TENDENCIES OF THE SURREALIST MOVEMENT OF ANDRÉ BRETON. CAMUS WAS THE SECOND-YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, AFTER RUDYARD KIPLING, AND HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-BORN WRITER TO RECEIVE THE AWARD.[1] HE IS THE SHORTEST-LIVED OF ANY LITERATURE LAUREATE TO DATE, HAVING DIED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT JUST OVER TWO YEARS AFTER RECEIVING THE AWARD.
ALTHOUGH OFTEN CITED AS A PROPONENT OF EXISTENTIALISM, THE PHILOSOPHY WITH WHICH CAMUS WAS ASSOCIATED DURING HIS OWN LIFETIME, HE REJECTED THIS PARTICULAR LABEL.[2] IN AN INTERVIEW IN 1945, CAMUS REJECTED ANY IDEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS: "NO, I AM NOT AN EXISTENTIALIST. SARTRE AND I ARE ALWAYS SURPRISED TO SEE OUR NAMES LINKED..."[3]
SPECIFICALLY, HIS VIEWS CONTRIBUTED TO THE RISE OF THE PHILOSOPHY KNOWN AS ABSURDISM. HE WROTE IN HIS ESSAY "THE REBEL" THAT HIS WHOLE LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO OPPOSING THE PHILOSOPHY OF NIHILISM WHILE STILL DELVING DEEPLY INTO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.

The word robot comes from the word robota meaning literally serf labor, and, figuratively, "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech, Slovak and Polish. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root *orbh-. Robot is cognate with the German word Arbeiter (worker).

Karel Čapek introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921. While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor.[4] In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he also explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, seeing it as too artificial, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti" (robots in English).

>>1222017
>>1222017


see pic.

JONATHAN SWIFT (30 NOVEMBER 1667 – 19 OCTOBER 1745) WAS AN ANGLO-IRISH[1] SATIRIST, ESSAYIST, POLITICAL PAMPHLETEER (FIRST FOR THE WHIGS, THEN FOR THE TORIES), POET AND CLERIC WHO BECAME DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN.
HE IS REMEMBERED FOR WORKS SUCH AS GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, A MODEST PROPOSAL, A JOURNAL TO STELLA, DRAPIER'S LETTERS, THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, AN ARGUMENT AGAINST ABOLISHING CHRISTIANITY, AND A TALE OF A TUB. SWIFT IS PROBABLY THE FOREMOST PROSE SATIRIST IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, AND IS LESS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS POETRY. SWIFT ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ALL OF HIS WORKS UNDER PSEUDONYMS—SUCH AS LEMUEL GULLIVER, ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, M.B. DRAPIER—OR ANONYMOUSLY. HE IS ALSO KNOWN FOR BEING A MASTER OF TWO STYLES OF SATIRE: THE HORATIAN AND JUVENALIAN STYLES.

Nikolai Bukharin was a gifted cartoonist who left many cartoons on contemporary Soviet politicians. The renowned artist Konstantin Yuon once told him: “Forget about politics. There is no future in politics for you. Painting is your real calling." His cartoons are sometimes used to illustrate biographies of Soviet officials. Russian historian Yury Zhukov stated that Nikolai Bukarin's portraits of Joseph Stalin were the only ones drawn from the original, not from a photograph.

Okay guys stop getting so worked up, I bumped this thread to like first page just to point out my scorn at pataphysics it's no big deal :(

gonna go play Alpha Protocol now k?

Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism".[1] In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio and, especially, Dante Alighieri. This would be later endorsed by the Accademia della Crusca. His sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. Petrarch was also known for being one of the first people to refer to the Dark Ages.

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD (SEPTEMBER 24, 1896 – DECEMBER 21, 1940) WAS AN AMERICAN AUTHOR OF NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES, WHOSE WORKS ARE THE PARADIGM WRITINGS OF THE JAZZ AGE, A TERM HE COINED HIMSELF. HE IS WIDELY REGARDED[BY WHOM?] AS ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN WRITERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. FITZGERALD IS CONSIDERED A MEMBER OF THE "LOST GENERATION" OF THE 1920S. HE FINISHED FOUR NOVELS, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED, TENDER IS THE NIGHT AND HIS MOST FAMOUS, THE CELEBRATED CLASSIC, THE GREAT GATSBY. A FIFTH, UNFINISHED NOVEL, THE LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON WAS PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY. FITZGERALD ALSO WROTE MANY SHORT STORIES THAT TREAT THEMES OF YOUTH AND PROMISE ALONG WITH DESPAIR AND AGE.

>>1222029
have fun!

>>1222029

>LEAVE Deep&Edgy ALONE

VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH NABOKOV (RUSSIAN: ВЛАДИ́МИР ВЛАДИ́МИРОВИЧ НАБО́КОВ, PRONOUNCED [VLɐˈDʲIMʲɪR NɐˈBOKƏF]; 22 APRIL [O.S. 10 APRIL] 1899C – 2 JULY 1977) WAS A MULTILINGUAL RUSSIAN-AMERICAN NOVELIST AND SHORT STORY WRITER. NABOKOV WROTE HIS FIRST NINE NOVELS IN RUSSIAN, THEN ROSE TO INTERNATIONAL PROMINENCE AS A MASTER ENGLISH PROSE STYLIST. HE ALSO MADE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENTOMOLOGY AND HAD AN INTEREST IN CHESS PROBLEMS.
NABOKOV'S LOLITA (1955) IS FREQUENTLY CITED AS AMONG HIS MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS AND IS HIS MOST WIDELY KNOWN, EXHIBITING THE LOVE OF INTRICATE WORD PLAY AND SYNESTHETIC DETAIL THAT CHARACTERISED ALL HIS WORKS. THE NOVEL WAS RANKED AT #4 IN THE LIST OF THE MODERN LIBRARY 100 BEST NOVELS.[1] PALE FIRE (1962) WAS RANKED AT #53 ON THE SAME LIST. HIS MEMOIR, ENTITLED SPEAK, MEMORY, WAS LISTED #8 ON THE MODERN LIBRARY NONFICTION LIST.[2]


MORE LIKE, ONCE AGAIN, CAPSGUY WINS.

NO WORRIES MAN, I'LL TAKE THAT REPLY FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS.

OSCAR FINGAL O'FLAHERTIE WILLS WILDE (16 OCTOBER 1854 – 30 NOVEMBER 1900) WAS AN IRISH WRITER, POET, AND PROMINENT AESTHETE; WHO, AFTER WRITING IN DIFFERENT FORMS THROUGHOUT THE 1880S, BECAME ONE OF LONDON'S MOST POPULAR PLAYWRIGHTS IN THE EARLY 1890S. TODAY HE IS REMEMBERED FOR HIS EPIGRAMS, PLAYS AND THE TRAGEDY OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AND EARLY DEATH.
WILDE'S PARENTS WERE SUCCESSFUL DUBLIN INTELLECTUALS, AND FROM AN EARLY AGE HE WAS TUTORED AT HOME, WHERE HE SHOWED HIS INTELLIGENCE, BECOMING FLUENT IN FRENCH AND GERMAN. HE ATTENDED BOARDING SCHOOL FOR SIX YEARS, THEN MATRICULATED TO UNIVERSITY AT SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE. READING GREATS, WILDE PROVED HIMSELF TO BE AN OUTSTANDING CLASSICIST, FIRST AT DUBLIN, THEN AT OXFORD. HIS INTELLECTUAL HORIZONS WERE BROAD: HE WAS DEEPLY INTERESTED IN THE RISING PHILOSOPHY OF AESTHETICISM (LED BY TWO OF HIS TUTORS, WALTER PATER AND JOHN RUSKIN) THOUGH HE ALSO PROFOUNDLY EXPLORED ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND FINALLY CONVERTED ON HIS DEATHBED.
AFTER UNIVERSITY WILDE MOVED TO LONDON, INTO FASHIONABLE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CIRCLES. AS A SPOKESMAN FOR AESTHETICISM, HE TRIED HIS HAND AT VARIOUS LITERARY ACTIVITIES: HE PUBLISHED A BOOK OF POEMS, LECTURED AMERICA AND CANADA ON THE NEW "ENGLISH RENAISSANCE IN ART", AND RETURNED TO LONDON TO WORK PROLIFICALLY AS A JOURNALIST FOR FOUR YEARS.

KNOWN FOR HIS BITING WIT, FLAMBOYANT DRESS, AND GLITTERING CONVERSATION, WILDE WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN PERSONALITIES OF HIS DAY. AT THE TURN OF THE 1890S, HE REFINED HIS IDEAS ABOUT THE SUPREMACY OF ART IN A SERIES OF DIALOGUES AND ESSAYS; THOUGH IT WAS HIS ONLY NOVEL, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, WHICH BROUGHT HIM MORE LASTING RECOGNITION. THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSTRUCT AESTHETIC DETAILS PRECISELY, COMBINED WITH LARGER SOCIAL THEMES, DREW WILDE TO WRITING DRAMA. HE WROTE SALOME IN FRENCH IN PARIS IN 1891, BUT IT WAS REFUSED A LICENCE. UNPERTURBED, WILDE PRODUCED FOUR SOCIETY COMEDIES IN THE EARLY 1890S, WHICH MADE HIM ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRIGHTS OF LATE VICTORIAN LONDON.
AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS FAME AND SUCCESS—HIS MASTERPIECE, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, WAS STILL ON STAGE IN LONDON—WILDE SUED HIS LOVER'S FATHER FOR LIBEL. AFTER A SERIES OF TRIALS, WILDE WAS CONVICTED OF GROSS INDECENCY WITH OTHER MEN AND IMPRISONED FOR TWO YEARS, HELD TO HARD LABOUR. IN PRISON HE WROTE DE PROFUNDIS, A LONG LETTER WHICH DISCUSSES HIS SPIRITUAL JOURNEY THROUGH HIS TRIALS, FORMING A DARK COUNTERPOINT TO HIS EARLIER PHILOSOPHY OF PLEASURE. UPON HIS RELEASE HE LEFT IMMEDIATELY FOR FRANCE, NEVER TO RETURN TO IRELAND OR BRITAIN. THERE HE WROTE HIS LAST WORK, THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, A LONG POEM COMMEMORATING THE HARSH RHYTHMS OF PRISON LIFE. HE DIED DESTITUTE IN PARIS AT THE AGE OF FORTY-SIX.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973), who pronounced his surname /ˈtɒlkiːn/,[1][2] was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959.[3] He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After his death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth[4] within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.[5]
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien,[6] the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature[7][8]—or, more precisely, of high fantasy.[9] In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[10] Forbes ranked him the 5th top-earning dead celebrity in 2009.[11]

>>1222000
Ugh, just thinking about being in this fucking motorized bubble-pod, underwater, this makes me ill.

The ocean just generally scares the fuck out of me in general.

>>1222048

Imagine having to share it with Tybrax.

>>1222003
the fact that you're continuing but in such a defensive way kinda looks like you're losing hear.

cant blame you though, d&e is BROOTAL. thats not something to be proud of or makes him a good person but you're posting on 4chan so you should expect it.

>>1222006
lol at the fact you made that image & that you're -still- butthurt enough to take sides.

jesus christ d&e is really good at trolling people that take things personally xD

>>1222050
You know, if I were strapped to some kind of horrible underwater pod, I'd rather be with somebody, even if that means being with a pasty-white, soft-bodied nerd who never leaves the house.

>>1222050
>>1222050

there wouldn't be enough room ;_;

>>1222052
>>1222052
>made that image
lolno.

>>1222057
the picture isnt tybrax anyway, i think they rented a russian nuclear submarine for her to explore the ocean. unfortunately while boarding some japs confused her for a whale and harpooned away

Not enough sage in this thread.

>>1222069
>>1222052

>>1222073

Mmm, yes, I saw. I don't think you understand what I'm trying to do in this thread.

The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is an essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. The essay was inspired by De Triumpho Stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli, born at Tredozio, near Forlì.

Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's estate in Bucklersbury. In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and one of the catalysts of the Protestant Reformation.

Stephen Edelston Toulmin (25 March 1922 - 4 December 2009) was a British philosopher, author, and educator. Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toulmin devoted his works to the analysis of moral reasoning. Throughout his writings, he sought to develop practical arguments which can be used effectively in evaluating the ethics behind moral issues. His works were later found useful in the field of rhetoric for analyzing rhetorical arguments. The Toulmin Model of Argumentation, a diagram containing six interrelated components used for analyzing arguments, was considered his most influential work, particularly in the field of rhetoric and communication, and in computer science.

Paul Karl Feyerabend (January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades (1958–1989). He lived a peripatetic life, living at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand, Italy, Germany, and finally Switzerland. His major works include Against Method (published in 1975), Science in a Free Society (published in 1978) and Farewell to Reason (a collection of papers published in 1987). Feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He is an influential figure in the philosophy of science, and also in the sociology of scientific knowledge.

Gadamer's philosophical project, as explained in Truth and Method, was to elaborate on the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics", which Heidegger initiated but never dealt with at length. Gadamer's goal was to uncover the nature of human understanding. In the book Gadamer argued that "truth" and "method" were at odds with one another. He was critical of two approaches to the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften). On the one hand, he was critical of modern approaches to humanities that modelled themselves on the natural sciences (and thus on rigorous scientific methods). On the other hand, he took issue with the traditional German approach to the humanities, represented for instance by Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey, which believed that correctly interpreting a text meant recovering the original intention of the author who wrote it.

In contrast to both of these positions, Gadamer argued that people have a 'historically effected consciousness' (wirkungsgeschichtliches Bewußtsein) and that they are embedded in the particular history and culture that shaped them. Thus interpreting a text involves a fusion of horizons where the scholar finds the ways that the text's history articulates with their own background. Truth and Method is not meant to be a programmatic statement about a new 'hermeneutic' method of interpreting texts. Gadamer intended Truth and Method to be a description of what we always do when we interpret things (even if we do not know it): "My real concern was and is philosophic: not what we do or what we ought to do, but what happens to us over and above our wanting and doing".

Jùzhī Yīzhǐ (Chinese: 倶胝一指; Japanese: Gutei Isshi) was a 9th-century Chinese Chán, or Zen, master. After Bodhidharma, he was the eleventh successor[1] in the line of Nányuè Huáiràng (677–744) and Mǎzǔ Dàoyī (709–788), as well as—according to some sources—Línjì Yìxuán (although according to others he was Linji's contemporary). He was the student of Hángzhōu Tiānlóng (Kōshū Tenryū).

>>1222076
>>1222076

tybrax doesn't really understanding what saging and sage bombing are.

i'll assist.

>>1222090

Thanks! Unfortunately, I'm starting to slow down as I wean myself off procrastinating.

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).

>>1222090
>implying he hasnt left because he has a life unlike u guise

you scared your little baby anons see this thread so you have to remove this content from their innocent eyes?

>>1219675

>>1222098

>...implying you've left in a post that unfortunately testifies to your presence

>>1222098
>>IMPLYING THAT WE DON'T KNOW THAT THREADS CAN'T JUST BE ARCHIVED

Somone NEEDS to archive this shit, it's hilarious

http://4chanarchive.org/

magical realism is just a polite word for FANTASY
Its for people who dont want to admit it and because of the literary establishments bias

Magical realism = Closet fantasists

magical realism is the purist genre of postmodernism, you stupid douche

I don't know anything about tripfags, other than the obvious, but I know anyone who doesn't understand how sage works and uses it anyway is a miserable epsilon with nothing worthwhile to contribute.