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The Big 3 of American literature

>> No.18854787

>>18854764
For fiction? I'd agree. Maybe add Mark Twain as an honourary fourth.
>Poetry
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
>Nonfiction
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Jack London

>> No.18854823

>>18854787
Twain's non fiction is better than his fiction imo. I'd take Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi over Huckleberry Finn

>> No.18854860

BIG IN WHAT SENSE?

POE'S COCK WAS CERTAINLY LARGER THAN HENRY "CHINAMAN" JAMES'S COCK.

>> No.18854877

>>18854787
William James for non-fiction

>> No.18854916

>>18854823
I actually have yet to read his nonfiction (blasphemy, I know!). I'll check out Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi though!
>>18854877
Haven't read his nonfiction as well. Any recommendations?

>> No.18854940

>>18854764
>literally who
>guy who wrote the whale book
>literally who

>> No.18854954

>>18854940
why are you on this board if you don't even read?

>> No.18854973

>>18854940
I'll have you know that the guy who wrote the whale book thought the literally who to his right was the coolest motherfucker alive.

>> No.18855022

>>18854916
The Will to Believe is his most famous work; it's a speech he gave to the American Society of Scientists or whatever, where he told them essentially that objectivity doesn't exist and that one must first believe in order to know.

>> No.18855174

>>18854916
Pragmatism

>> No.18856091

bump

>> No.18856270
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>>18854764


1. THE DEMONYM OF UNITEDSTATES IS: «UNITEDSTATIAN».

2. NO.

>> No.18856284

melville yes
other two no
replace them with poe and whitman

>> No.18856314

>>18854764
>Pynchon
>DeLillo
>Morrison

>> No.18856353

>>18854764
According to /lit/ the big 3 of American literature are:
David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
James Joyce

Updoot if you get the joke ;)

>> No.18856357

>>18856353
I don't get it but you can have a (You) anyways

>> No.18856391

>>18854787
You can't spell Poetry without Poe, anon ...

>> No.18856427

>>18856270
>america, a continent
first point, and already wrong

>> No.18856477

>>18854860
>>18854940
>>18856270
>>18856284
filtered

>> No.18856503

you only need one 19th century romantic. and the 20th century is when American lit came to fruition. replace Melville with Faulkner.

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>All these fake ass replies
Make way for the real trinity.

>> No.18857002

>>18854823
>>18854916
I just finished Innocents Abroad and was amazed by how pointedly sarcastic and bitter he could be about fools and charlatans in Europe and the Holy Land. Can’t wait to start on Roughing It.

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>>18854764
>no edgar poe
Pleb detected.

>> No.18857021

>>18856726
This

>> No.18857027

>>18857008
Poe is literally the pleb version of Hawthorne

>> No.18857037

>>18856726
This; all true american culture is contained in these three writers

>> No.18857038

>>18854764
Imagine actually thinking this. Melville is the only one that deserves to be on there.

>> No.18857058

>>18854764
Henry James lived most of his life in Europe.

>>18854787
>Jack London
The man wrote books for children. Not unlike Hawthorne in that respect.

>> No.18857077

Melville
Faulkner
Steinbeck

>> No.18857078

>>18857058
>Jack London
>The man wrote books for children
Yeah, I don't get why anons keep posting him, either.

>> No.18858050

>>18854764
who's the man on the right?

>> No.18858059

>>18854764
>no Faulkner

>> No.18858062

>>18854787
Jack London wrote non-fiction?

>> No.18858094

>>18858050
Hawthorne

>> No.18858162

>>18854764
It's Melville Faulkner McCarthy
beancarthy is a hack but he's still objectively the 3rd biggest american novelist

>> No.18858754

>>18858162
>McCarthy
No it's not

>> No.18858763

McCarthy is too autistic to be one of the greats. I will not elaborate further.

>> No.18858823

>>18854764
Where's Hamingway

>> No.18859231

>>18858763
Pussy

>> No.18859751

>>18854764
please tell me the names.
>inb4 nobook
i don't have pictures of the authors in my books, dummy.

>> No.18859815

>>18854764
Poe, Melville, Whitman

>> No.18859947

>>18854764
The PYNCH WILL be added, MARK my words.

>> No.18860431

>>18859751
Henry James, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

>> No.18860646

>>18856726
this
>>18854764
henry james is great but too european to be part of the american trinity. hawthorne is great and i debated between him and mccarthy but in the end i went with mccarthy to cover more periods of time. and there's no way anyone is dethroning melville off that 19th century spot

>> No.18861144

>>18856314
this

>> No.18861192

1. Twain
2. Melville
3. Hemingway or Faulkner or Poe or Whitman

I love McCarthy. But if you've read the oeuvres of the above, he has nothing new for you.

>> No.18861196

Harold Bloom said Whitman was the representative American author for.poetry and Henry James for fiction

>> No.18861268

>>18861196
>Whitman
100% yes
>James
Get fucked Bloom. Nearly all of his best work takes place in Europe and/or is about Europeans. Great author yes, but not entirely representative of America

>> No.18861299

are we getting raided by reddit? why are so many of you queers saying McCarthy

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>>18854764
You like My Hero Academia too?

>> No.18861941

>>18854764
>no Faulkner

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>none of these men are Poe
kys

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>>18861299
>"it doesn't suit my narrative. It is REDDIT"
Off yourself Newfag.

>> No.18861999

>>18861192
>he has nothing new for you.
Your picks are good but that is completely false. He has nothing new for you only if you read the wikipedia entry of his book and assume that all southern literature is the same.

>> No.18862135

>>18861999
I've read all his work except Suttree. You can see where he's pulling from Twain, Melville, Faulkner, Hemingway, and the KJB.

He's an interesting melting pot of American writers. But I wouldn't say he's a GOAT. Greatest living, maybe.

>> No.18862159

>>18861941
>>18854764
> and no J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

>> No.18862165

>>18862135
True. Probably not the GOAT but can be in the conversation.
All writers are pulling from some older writers desu, but I don't think that is enough to say their work is the same. We have to draw the line between inspiration and imitation somewhere. McCarthy for example distances himself from Faulkner in the writing and structure of his books and his themes tend to be much more general and his personal way of seeing the world, unlike Faulkner where the post civil war history of the South is the core from which everything else seeps out of. This is peripheral at best in McCarthy.

His Western work is the Elephant in the room because it doesn't have any proper precedent and McCarthy did play a prominent part in placing the genre on the map of serious literature. BM and Moby Dick do have affinities but their differences greatly outnumber their similarities.

>> No.18862188

It’s 2021. If I see you reading Cormac McCarthy in public I will knock it out of your hands.

>> No.18862324

>>18862188
TOO BAD, FUCKFACE

>> No.18863552

>>18856270
>THE DEMONYM OF UNITEDSTATES IS: «UNITEDSTATIAN».
Every time you fucking seething latin americans say this shit people laugh at you. Americans laugh at you and your countries that are somehow worse than theirs. That's right your shithole is somehow a bigger shithole than their shithole. Remember that every time you feel emboldened to say something as asinine as 'unitedstatian' because your dumb direct translation of your stupid monkey Spanish is laughable.

>> No.18863573

>>18856726
I recognize McCarthy an Melville. Who is the 1-st one?

>> No.18863600

>>18863573
Faulkner Dawg