/lit/ - Literature

>Doubt
There's no way your course would spend one week on Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

>>22831351
Inferno only, but the course is 7 weeks and it's a different book each week so...

>>22831362
Yeah, you're just a fucking retard with /pol/ brain rot.

>>22831344
This is why I simply do not read any books besides footnote mining essay-relevant books. I am currently doing an MA and am on track to graduate. I hope to do a PhD after. I will still not read any books I don't explicitly feel like reading.
My sister's crazy though, she straight up read 1000 books for her degree. The entire reading list.

>>22831366
What does /pol/ have to do with anything?

I never read Divine Comedy, only bits here and there and never understood why it is so praised. I mean, I'm sure there are reasons, I just don't get it.

>>22831379
It's just a guy writing fanfiction mixing various mythologies where all his enemies go to hell and his idol praises him and the girl he had a crush on loves him, it's the most pathetic thing in the world

>>22831391
That's my impression as well.

No one reads entire books for school, not even your professors

>>22831401
How much do I need to read to properly fake it, then?

>>22831371
Because you purposefully misrepresent and exaggerate like a /pol/ chud.

>>22831366
>/pol/
How did you come to this conclusion?

>>22831404
Take your meds.

>>22831406
>I HAVE TO READ THE ENTIRE DIVINE COMEDY IN A WEEK
>OK ACTUALLY I LIED I ONLY HAVE TO READ INFERNO IN A WEEK
This is how /pol/ chuds act. They purposefully exaggerate for attention.

>>22831417
Oh, sorry. I had no idea you'd get that mad about it.

>>22831419
You're literally a retard if you can't read Inferno in a week. Get the fuck off this board. You're obviously some tourist and this is your first post on /lit/. It's very obvious you come from /pol/ or /int/ or /b/. Another dead giveaway was your retarded ass thinking it is difficult to read one book per week. Kill yourself.

>>22831391
The way he overwrites pagan philosophy and mythology with Augustinian and Thomist Christian theology and weaves autobiographical, cultural and political references together in a Christian universe with a consistent and innovative lyrical rhyming scheme, foreshadowing the Italian renaissance, is impressive to say the least (and that's just scratching the surface). You gotta be really dense not to see that.

>>22831427
It's not difficult to read one book per week if that's all you're doing. It is difficult to read one book per week when you have to complete course work for every single other course at the same time and have to acquire these books physically, which takes time. Luckily I already had two of them at home.
Your anger amuses me. I'll have you bricked in with a hole for you to scream obscenities at people through.
Not OP by the way, just fucking with you

>>22831366
>>22831427
Kek the tranny is having an episode again

>>22831366
>>22831404
>>22831417
Meds

>>22831438
Okay but you have to see how he literally does the things I said as well, right? I don't deny Divine Comedy's influence or importance, just that Dante did write a power fantasy about himself

Use Cliff Notes. That's what I did. If you can discuss the themes/ideas and not just recap the plot, you'll do fine on all tests/papers/discussions. That's what I did and I ended up getting As in almost every course. Never finished a single book.

>>22831417
most people would default to just thinking about Inferno when talking about Divina comedia
t.italian
>>22831451
>>22831448
is it a common thing in /lit/?

>>22831456
> he literally does the things I said as well
>I said
What you said is just a basic bitch reddit take, please don't post again on this board and go back.

>>22831464
Oof.

>>22831458
A lot of the course is going to be the group meets where we talk about the books. With 15 people per group it probably won't be hard to talk your share about themes and ideas. You're giving me hope here.
>>22831463
I think some people come here and see others getting told to fuck off and just assume that this is the thing they need to do to fit in. Notice how he's listing all the boogiemen with no rhyme or reason.

It’s roughly 1200 words a canto, excluding footnotes. There are 34 cantos. You’re looking at 8.5 hours of reading tops. Pretty reasonable. Read five cantos a day for a 7 day read. 7 cantos a day for a 5 day read.

>>22831482
How many times do you need to reread each canto to understand it if you're unaccustomed to poetry? I've been exclusively reading prose my entire life, avoiding poems at every opportunity.

>>22831491
you can read a prose translation

>>22831482
Except that every other verse will be accompanied by footnotes, and it's going to be substantially more difficult to read than the equivalent amount of basic bitch prose due to the poetic syntax and vocabulary, complex and philosophical style, as well as the fact that poetry should be at least subvocalised.

>>22831498
>>22831512
The duality of man

>>22831512
>he found dante philosophically challenging

Come on baby give daddy some sugar huh

>>22831528
I think one might find the idea of eternal punishment worthy of philosophical pondering if one were so inclined, sweatie, as well determining the ethical foundations upon which the hierarchy of sins is built upon, why one sin is considered worse than another.

>>22831491
>>22831512
I literally doubled the time estimate to account for verse. 200 words a minute is a conservative reading pace for an adult. That would be 6 minutes a canto. Sure, it might be unreasonable to think you’d get much from reading it that quickly. At the same time, this is why you’re taking an intro class. There’s no expectation that you’ll suddenly have mastery over one of the most influential texts in history. But a solid read through plus discussion and help from a teacher and you will be far richer as a human being than you were before. It’s really not a lot of work. Honestly, my greatest regret from college was not making better use of my time. I work 9 hours a day at least. I’ve got a family to take care of. I will never understand how I thought I was so busy before. 15 credit hours is 3 hours a day of class time. If you spent 5 studying every day, plus a lunch break, you would just be hitting the workload of an easy job. Please, for your own sake, make good use of that time. It never comes back. I will never have a library again. I will never have access to professors again. I am happy with my life, but I am so intellectually poor compared to what I could have been. Don’t make the same mistake.

>>22831569
I will, old man. Previous group discussions have been my favorite part of studying so far, but we only read individual short stories each weak in the last course, not whole books, so I was a little worried about how to fit it all in with the other courses.
What happened to your library?

>>22831586
I don’t live at a university anymore, and you can only use university libraries if you are enrolled at the university. Again, put your class work in the context of the rest of your life. If each class requires 8 hours of work outside of class per week, that’s 55hours including class time. It might seem like a lot to you, but it is very little compared to your life after college. Especially when you consider that the work required of you will never again be as simple as merely reading one of the greatest works of literature ever written. I would not trade anything I have now for it, but what a dream it would be to have 2 hours of reading every night.

>>22831561
Holy pseud retard

>>22831528
>>22831646
Is this what you do after multiple posters call you out on behaving badly? Just post wojaks?

>>22831617
I used to work 11 hour days (8 hours of actual paid work, 3 hours commute) and just thought about suicide all the time but at least I could read on the bus for 3 hours every day

>>22831666
You got mega btfo bro you tried to post something serious and you outed yourself as a low IQ pseud. Sad.

>>22831737
Stop bumping your thread OP

>>22831463
>most people would default to just thinking about Inferno when talking about Divina comedia
>t.italian
Non è vero.

>>22831438
And this is not to mention the mystical and philological values of the work. It's honestly a really good /lit/ filter.

>>22831344
I gotchu famm

danteworlds dot laits dot utexas dot edu/index2 dot html

Just click on the zones’ name in the image for all the ancient italy context and notes. Even has got Purgatorio and Paradisio.

>>22831344

>”they’re making me read?! In literary studies?! I’m gonna give up das crazy!!”

Just sparknote it like you’ll literally do for all of the books you’ll be told to read.

Seriously though how retarded do you have to be to consider quitting an undergrad English class. Those are the easiest classes to bullshit through unless you’re taking some literary theory shit

>>22831344
Is the first Canticle taken by itself in your school shit, how does your school reconcile the harmony of the cantos

>>22831401
This is precisely why endorphins went wrong.

>>22831569
Based regret poster. By posting on here I assume that you still get some reading despite the limitations on your time, no?