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Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:03:23 2013 No.3556545 [Reply] [Original]

What do all of the major works of literature have in common?

Why do we hail the major works of literature as major works? How have the stood the test of time?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:05:23 2013 No.3556553 i reckon its cause as time go by people just keep on readin em. i reckon thats what makes a great book great

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:07:23 2013 No.3556563 I've that exact copy of Faust (number 47)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:11:23 2013 No.3556581 File: 45 KB, 350x473, beckett1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3556553 is that so, Jim? >>3556563 >having one volume of a britannica set

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:18:24 2013 No.3556597 File: 86 KB, 400x271, really?.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3556581 yeah, buying a second hand book, what a pleb move

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:20:24 2013 No.3556603 File: 3 KB, 189x189, 1361072216873.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3556597 >Entirely missing the point of anon's gibe.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:20:24 2013 No.3556607 >>3556545 THE HOOMAN CONDISHIUAHN A mix of luck, populist appeals, nepotism, marketing...

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:32:23 2013 No.3556637 >>3556607 hamlet and don quixote were marketed slyly?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 23:38:23 2013 No.3556656 >>3556607 I count word of mouth as an organic marketing

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 00:06:23 2013 No.3556716 >>3556603 That it's strange to just have one volume instead of all of them? Or was there something else?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 00:37:23 2013 No.3556782 >>3556716 That's an odd reply then There are thousands of other editions of Faust. I was getting at it being second hand, but being a volume with no matching set and not a standalone edition.

Anonymous Wed Mar 13 01:04:23 2013 No.3556866

>I have tried to confront greatness directly: to ask what makes the author and the works canonical. The answer, more often than not, turned out to be strangeness, a mode of originality that either cannot be assimilated, or that so assimilates us that we cease to see it as strange. Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty…when you read a canonical work for the first time you encounter a stranger, an uncanny startlement rather than a fulfillment of expectation. (What they) have in common (is) their uncanniness, their ability to make you feel strange at home.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 01:07:23 2013 No.3556874 they seem to all be printed or written on paper otherwise I'm stumped

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 13 01:09:24 2013 No.3556884 the canon is a lie. now go read something in a different language

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