/lit/ - Literature

>>17933347
Spread it more. More people need to read the greatest works ever written.

Why can't women handle being corrected?

>>17933347
>Schwartz
>Katzenstein
>that title

>>17933423
A pattern is starting to emerge.

>>17933661
Ugh antisemite

>>17933347
>>17933352
>>17933383
>>17933423
>>17933661
>>17933676
That book is satire, you're just mad you're the butt end of a stupid American joke.

>>17933681
Is banning Homer also satire?

>>17933718
It's literally a book that satirizes MFA white dudes, you might think it's trite and corny and unfunny but getting mad at this shit is a waste of time. The inspiration for it was her gimmick Twitter.

>>17933347
Isn't he the guy who made the whole New Warriors thing?

The Iliad by the creator of @stronghotdudes

>>17933830
>No, you can't criticize, it's just a joke
>Western academia is utterly annihilated, you're much more likely to find high quality scholarship on western out from Chinese and Indian universities than you would in England
Fun fact, North Korean Universities teach Dickens more and better than their equivalent Oxbridge courses and I'm not even exaggerating here, look it up

>>17933918
She's not an academic though. Yes, academia is fucked, but also MFA self-obsessed writer bros are fun to make fun of for some people, especially academic-adjacent women. I'm not denying that the Western Canon is dying, but is this really the book that's supposed to convince us? Granted, the s*yboy in the pic needs to find his balls.

>>17933347
Most of it is overrated because of eurocentrism, I would ditch most of it and instead put more Eastern stuff. People already care more about Japan anyway, we should just focus on them.

>>17933347
His early life section on Wikipedia do be looking kinda fresh tho

>>17934008
Troll post, but yes gilgamesh, Confucius and Zhuangzi should be part of the western canon.

>>17934034
kek

>>17934008
>>17934066
The entire point of the western canon is that it's western, it's all the worth while books produced by europe. That's like listing french noire when asked what your favorite american movies are, you're completely missing the point

>here's a list of the best roman emperors
>where the fuck is qin shi huang? Fucking eurocentrists

>>17933718
Has anyone actually banned homer but that one Twitter post?
My local American school district still assigns the odyssey as 10th grade required reading.

>>17933352
Based

>>17933347
Would love to stomp this faggot's head in till it's nothing but kosher jelly

>>17934066
The Epic of Gilgamesh may be one of the greatest stories ever written that shows us that we need to show more empathy to murderous rapists, but it's not western

>>17934008
Almost every great Japanese author for a few hundred years was influenced by the Western canon.