/lit/ - Literature

Mega-dicked analytic philosophy alphas styled on you hard, bro?

>my major can beat up your major

Sage.

Alright. Enough of this silliness.

sage for tripfag useless contribution bullshit

>>1891396
classical language major detected

>Women's Lit = top tier
>Gender Studies = mid tier

laughing

>>1891416
gender studies just arent respectable!

it's only there cause its kinda neaqt

>american lit over british lit
>laughingelf.jpg

>>1891420
You're either a troll or underage girl.

Take your pick.

>>1891432
americans lit is just the evolved from of brit lit

deeper themes and better prose

>>1891432

yeah pretty sure this is a piss poor troll

>>1891438

>>1891439
wow really? Could you put Australian Lit and Canadian Lit above british because it evolved from the british??

That is flawed logic...

>>1891447
they haven't really matured yet

but at the rate canada lit is going i would

australian lit is bad

this is the best one :

>>1891457
well in a perfect world maybe but this aint it bud

>>1891457

fukk'n saved

>>1891453
As a true blue patriotic australian I have to disagree-

Frank Moorhouse
Tim Winton
David Malouf
Paul Jennings...

>>1891458
You are a troll, so your opinion doesn't count. Either that, or you're a little girl, like the other guy said.

>>1891464
dunno who that is lol

and i'm a boy!

>>1891457
Almost but I would put what you are good at along with what your parents told you to do in the shit tier.

>>1891471
So in the end you think australian literature is bad because you don't understand australian idioms.

>>1891482

>>1891482
there's nothing wrong with that
if he can't do that, then you can't call his opinion bad because you're not in his head to understand his thought process

>>1891489
By the same justification he/she/you/it can not make any opinions on anything.

All you get from sitting on the fence is a sore anus

>>1891489
thanks sometimes its hard putting up with all this negative energy i get thrown at me

i need a soak~

>>1891494
so you're just reinforcing my point or what

>>1891495
My initial post was pointing out some good autralian authors... Refuting Fab's initial comment that Australian lit is bad...

Hands were thrown in the air with a 'i don't know what you are saying' shrug...

I commented on the fact that because there is no understanding of australian slang and culture there is no apriciation of the lit...

you pooped in say opinions can't be judged..

I said by that rational no opinions can be made.

No I am not agreeing with you I am saying that you are pathetic. Opinions are a way to see who we are, who we want to befriend. Opinions should not be deemed as insignificant and personal, because if they are stated they are no longer personal.

>>1891507
you are severely lacking in the conversational skills department

i said i don't know who that is

my point was that if australia authors were so good how come they're nobodies?

duh

>>1891508
The only australian author with world wide acknolwedgement is bryce courtney, and frankly I think that south African can have him back.

Surely you are not going to confuse publicity/popularity with quality.

>>1891511
good writers are popular because they are good.
bad writers are unpopular because they are bad.
simple really.

IT'S FABULOUS, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

THE MOST POPULAR THEY ARE, THE BETTER THEY MUST BE. IT'S A FLAWLESS SYSTEM THAT FAB APPLIES TO EVERYTHING

>>1891522

publicity...... forgetting something?

How about the other fable that artists are only appriciated after they are dead? Or is that too much of a flaw in your rational?

>>1891528
give me examples

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Technical Journalism should be God Tier. Also, Philosophy is one of the funnest things to study in college, so despite it's usual lack of monetary profit, I would place it higher.

>>1891531
Can't do... fable...............

can provide contra examples for your points:

Bryce Courtney
Twilight
The Da vinci Code
The girl with the dragon tattoo.
Clive Cussler
and on and on.


I would debate that popular books are popular because someone enegmatic read them talked about them (at work, at school) everyone else want to talk about them too... and off it goes.

>>1891544
why are any of those books/authors bad?

>>1891531
Actually one example of an author..

Kafka, the trial wan't published until after his death.

>>1891547
that's kafka's fault.

>>1891546
Are they considered literature?

>>1891551
yes.

"When you ask a friend if Hellboy is any good, you're not asking if it's any good compared to Mystic River, you're asking if it's any good compared to The Punisher. And my answer would be, on a scale of one to four, if Superman is four, then Hellboy is three and The Punisher is two. In the same way, if American Beauty gets four stars, then The United States of Leland clocks in at about two." - rogert ebert on how he rates films.

you can't compare twilight to old russian literature because it's a young adult novel.

>>1891559
This, probably.

>>1891559

Ok so they are not good literature they are engaging stories. Well easy to read...

And besides as another fence sitter answer everything could be considered good in its own category.

>"No it wasn't a bad horror is was good irony"

Just here to let you know that linguistics isn't a liberal arts degree.

>>1891559
I've got some new respect for Ebert now

>>1891472
Seconded, mate.

Obvious troll, but how is Art History god tier?

W-where is Psychology?

>>1891580
I think psychology counts as a human science. It's the same reason stuff like sociology and anthropology ain't up there. Hmm according to Wiki, economics counts as a human science too. So does history, less surprisingly so. Interesting.

Creative writing is shit tier? Why?

USA vs England

Music major/Linguistics minor in this bitch.

Playing trombone while speaking 3 languages.

>>1891624

im doing film + math, and this list is like on the shit tier list of normal majors, so i guess I'm mid tier, or something?

this is stupid

>>1892854
>math
boring subject

are you boring?

>film
interesting but full of bullshit

>>1891573
Because it's what Fab wants to study.

>>1892874
>boring subject

Hah. I don't blame you for that, plebs gonna pleb.

>>1892882
only plebs say pleb retard

>>1892891
you just said it twice, looks like you're a double retard

>>1892891

>>1892893
>>1892894

>>1891457

"doing something you love" is more stupid than doing something for money

Best of these lists--good job Fab

>>1892924
don't troll my thread friend

>>1892927
:D

>>1892931

seriously why don't people just study philosophy and lit in their own time? college is for getting qualifications to prove to employers you can do something. you don't need these pieces of paper for most jobs related to the majors you listed, and furthermore it's silly to waste $40k on something you can learn for much much less. college should be an investment.

>>1892942
what qualifies as "useful" to you

you shouldn't stop people from being happy~

>>1892942
>he thinks everyone lives in america

lol.

>art history
>anything but hipster nigger tier

faggot tier: tier lists

>>1892957
retarded newtrip who feels the need to "rationalize" everything

What is the list judged on, OP?

>>1892970
>how many people of xxxx major do i know and respect?
>how many people of xxxx major do i know and hate?
etc

>>1892946

i understand completely that people want to study art and lit. i can relate to this, which is why i'm doing a joint degree and not just a hard science alone. but i still believe i would have been just as happy doing something i found mildly interesting (a science alone) while still being able to "study" my own interests in my own time. i'd actually prefer it that way, no need to do boring essays and waste time in areas you don't even care for.

>>1892950

i actually don't live in america and think it applies to europe as well.

>>1892974
Ah, so it's a personal list. Okay.

>>1892980
is there any other kind?

lol

>>1892975
where in europe do you pay so much for college?

What's wrong with philosophy?

>>1892989

>>1892966
>i'm an oldfag. i've been here all summer

bring the tears little crybaby. i don't care.

>>1893003
embarrassing~

>>1891624
I want to know this as well. Because I'm trying to go back to college and had my eye on it.

>>1892950
Earth is America, dude

in time.

tripfags will turn /lit/ into the same low standard, like every other board.

>>1892942
philosophy majors have the highest acceptance rates into law school, so what's useless about that?

>>1893057
I hate it when you faggots do this. OBVIOUSLY they mean that philosophy degrees are completely useless on their own. Fuck.

in the UK, philosophy degrees are good.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/nov/20/choosingadegree.highereducation

>>1893057
law school is hell from what i've heard though. Sciences are the true god-tier.

>>1893127
hard science is for borings with no imagination