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In the literary world, what is the equivalent of coke vs pepsi, DC vs marvel, the Beatles vs the Stones?

>> No.20900699

>>20900689
Fiction vs Non-Fiction | Continental vs Analytic

>> No.20900702

>>20900689
Jordan Peterson v Karl Marx

>> No.20900704

>>20900689
Plato vs Aristotle. Dostoevsky vs Tolstoy.

>> No.20900708

Form vs content
Didacticism vs art for art's sake

>> No.20900744

>>20900699
Sadly this is true.

>> No.20902075

>>20900699
fpbp

>> No.20902105

Penguin or Oxford Classics?

>> No.20903215

>>20900689
chud vs troon

>> No.20903217

dictionary vs thesaurus

>> No.20903258

"The Great" Gatsby vs "Monsieur Moonsault" Meursault

>> No.20903266

>>20900689
Continental vs Analytic.

>> No.20903274

>>20900689
/fitlit/ vs /litfit/

>> No.20903327

realism vs idealism unironically

>> No.20903423

Shartre vs Camus

>> No.20903833

>>20900689
Conventional Reading vs. Listening to Audiobooks

Bonus round:

Physical Books vs. eBooks

>> No.20903890

>>20900689
DFW vs Mary Karr

>> No.20904188

Faulkner v. Hemingway

>> No.20904339

>>20900689
Something vs Nothing
Truth vs Fiction

>> No.20904452
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20904452

>>20900699
Fiction; continental

>>20900702
Both are fags

>>20900704
Aristotle; Dostoevsky

>>20900708
Content

>>20902105
Penguin

>>20903217
Thesaurus

>>20903327
Idealism

>>20903423
Camus

>>20903833
Conventional

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20904458

>>20900704
The problem with Plato is he got so obsessed with his forms that he ended up finding the little boy's anus to be some kind of ideal vagina (gay?)

>> No.20904481

>>20900689
Romans vs Greeks?

>> No.20904523

>>20904188
Hemingway isn't on the same level for novels, his short story stuff is as good as Hawthorne tho

>> No.20904776

>>20900704
>Dostoevsky vs Tolstoy
this is it

>> No.20905380

>>20900689
Tolstoy v. Dostoevsky

>> No.20905431

>>20903274
Fffffffu-

>> No.20905447

New Criticism v everyone who isn't autistic and also esl

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20905845

>>20904458
true that's a big problem

>> No.20906359

>>20900689
Through each civilization it's always the schizophrenic vs the autist:

>Ancient:
Plato vs. Aristotle
>Magian:
Augustine vs Ibn Rushd
>Western:
Goethe vs. Kant

>> No.20907475

Tolkien vs Martin

>> No.20907505

>>20903890
He won that one on knock-out.

>> No.20907525

>>20904452
Shittest of opinions

>> No.20907538

>>20900689
Ancients vs Moderns

>> No.20907546

>>20906359
>the schizophrenic vs the autist
Dionysian vs Apollonian

>> No.20907987

>>20900689
It's easy to come up with these little binaries. Harder and more interesting is to come up with an orthogonal set (i.e. you can pick either one from any pair independently) which covers all the possibilities of reader taste. Probably you want four pairs, like the Myers-Briggs thing. That divides people up into 16 basic types. You might have, for example:

Pope [APOLLONIAN] vs. Shelley [DIONYSIAN]
Updike [MAXIMALIST] vs. Carver [MINIMALIST]
A. Conan Doyle [OPTIMIST] vs. H. P. Lovecraft [PESSIMIST]
Keats [TRAD] vs. Cummings [MODERN]