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14386997 No.14386997 [Reply] [Original]

>He doesn't read literary criticism
>Thinks he has something interesting to say

>> No.14387010

>>14386997
there's plenty of interesting things left to say given how different much of civilization has become in the past 20 years, what does reading literary criticism have to do with any of that?

>> No.14387064

>>14386997
>Thinks he has something interesting to say
lets see what u got bucko

>> No.14387132

>>14386997
I read literary criticism and I probably don't have anything interesting to say so let's be honest with ourselves here

>> No.14387142

>>14386997
You can form your own opinions without citing sources, you know?

>> No.14387145

midwit busywork

>> No.14387184

>>14386997
My mom's big in the world of literary criticism. Literary criticism is very important to me, but only in the sense that it paid for my childhood. Other than that it's worthless.

>> No.14387198

>>14386997
>frogposts on a board primarily consisting of imbeciles
>has the audacity to think himself educated on any subject

I'd advise you to end your life -- there are enough retards on this planet.

>> No.14387212

>>14386997
“Literary criticism is about as useful to readers as ornithology is to birds.”
-- Harold Bloom

>> No.14387225

>>14387198
And I would advise you to amend your grammar whilst forming a scathing remark; It could leave you open to an equally vicious retort.

>> No.14387230

>>14387225
>It
The "I" is not supposed to be capitalized after a semicolon.

>> No.14387280

>>14386997
one of the best critique books that I read is Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense about Primitive Society by C.R. Hallpike. It really gives a perspective about how unique european culture is, and how we cannot notice that because we're swimming in it. It attacks rationalism, the noble savage and human nature in tribes with minimal outsider contact. It's an easy read too. Hallpike also discusses the idea of Chomsky about universal grammar and he gives some good arguments against it. Pretty based book.

>> No.14387425

>>14387225
You may amend it for me, O great one, once you've mastered capitalisations, lest I beat you to it.
*I'd advise you to end your life; there are enough retards on this planet.

>> No.14387492

>>14387230
>>14387212
Yea get fucked

>> No.14387495

>>14387492
Sorry I mis linked there. Too sad to fix it

>> No.14387601

>>14387212

As a noted literary critic, he knew very well what he was doing (assuming this quote is accurate, quotations are very frequently misattributed or made up). There are several "viola jokes" which shit on violists (as opposed to violinists, the latter commonly thought of as the superior performers; imagine lead guitar vs. bass guitar for a pleb example). The authors of these viola jokes, which disparage the instrument, the orchestral unit in general? Violists themselves.