/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19099907]

ITT books/authors that are only read in grad student circles

[Anonymous No.19099930]

>>19099907
I don't know man, last year I think it was when a challenge was floating up in booktube in which people read Richardson. I thought then the novel must be popular, but then a teacher said the novel was almost completely forgotten.

[Anonymous No.19099934]

[Anonymous No.19099942]

>>19099907
Robert Lowell

[Anonymous No.19099943]

>>19099934
Kek! Well memed!

[Anonymous No.19099950]

epistolary novels are dog shit

[Anonymous No.19099954]

>>19099907
I never read Clarissa but I had to read Pamela by Samuel Richardson when I was at University and it was honestly one of the worst books I have ever read. I don't even remember much but the plot was just someone woman having boring uninteresting affairs with boring uninteresting men for 500 pages.

Also I'm not sure if it fits but I've never seen The Jungle by Upton Sinclair outside of my University. I read it as a part of a reform module and I would actually recommend giving it a read, it can get a bit repetitive but it is a very sad and heartbreaking novel and I enjoyed writing about it.

>>19099934
Faggot

[Anonymous No.19099964]

>>19099954
Please no homophobia

[Anonymous No.19099966]

Henry James
Elizabeth Bishop
Gertrude Stein
Ford Maddox Ford

[Anonymous No.19099969]

>>19099954
I had to read The Jungle in undergrad
But for a history class not a literature class

[Anonymous No.19099978]

>>19099969
My god your history degree sucked. You should have been reading Dubofsky.

[Anonymous No.19099997]

>>19099969
I didn't know you read fiction for a history degree I thought it would have just been text books lol, did you have to do language analysis for it or was it just for context?

[Anonymous No.19100002]

[Anonymous No.19100063]

>>19099997
>historians read textbooks
Fuck me munt. Jaysus wept.

Historiography is about the production of convincing defensible meanings which are faithful to an extensive metatext of primary (archival, period produced texts) and secondary (analysis, including *faulty* analysis such as that produced by "journalists" claiming to speak about the past) texts.

Historians mostly read other historians.
"Journalists" who produce pathetic tripe, (Applebaum A. for example).
And at an undergraduate level compilations of archival texts and extracts from contemporary accounts.

The Jungle is about as trustworthy as your mate down the pub. Even for "the vibe." If you wanted "the vibe" then debates over sewer socialism with the IWW would be a better case.

[Anonymous No.19100064]

>>19099934
>>19099964
Kys.

[Anonymous No.19100164]

>>19099978
I didn’t get a history degree. It was just a liberal arts pre requisite

[Anonymous No.19100182]

>>19099997
Just context. The book actually did have some historical impact and inspired the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration and other Regulatory legislation

[Anonymous No.19100184]

>>19100164
Oh, a literacy course. They suck to teach.

[Anonymous No.19100225]

>>19100184
if any anons are for some reason interested in wasting their time reading gardener's dogshit, at least don't also waste your money - it's available for free here:
https://au1lib.org/book/11994656/1ff726
https://pastebin.com/be7ALyVf

[Anonymous No.19100452]

>>19099907
In Spanish:
Lope de Vega
Calderón de la Barca (fuera de "La vida es sueño")
Alejo Carpentier
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

I doubt a little about the last one, but I genuinely never met a single non-religious person that wasn't at uni that read her. Other authors (except for Carpentier) are weird enough that some librarians have asked me if I was in a course of literature because of the books I asked for.
Also I never met any woman that wasn't at uni read Simone de Beauvoir, tho every self-proclaimed feminist says they've so.

[Anonymous No.19100995]

>>19100452
I'm prett sure we read Calderón in my high school. We also read Alejo Carpentier. We read one of sor Juana's sonnets in middle school. Everyone and their mother has read Fuenteovejuna. Mate you've literally chosen the best known Golden age writers. I've seen some of the books that Golden age grad students read and while they might read those authors too they tend to gravitate towards some lesser known works.

[Anonymous No.19101015]

>>19099907
Which is a real shame because this one is a gem

[Anonymous No.19101067]

>>19099907
Many of you are homosexual. I have read some of these books and am not in a grad student circle.

[Anonymous No.19101078]

>>19101067
>t. insecure brainlet who didnt go to university

[Anonymous No.19101160]

>>19100995
Yeah, like the obscure Golden Century is Gongora, who is unreadable. The correct list of that would be

Góngora
Santa Teresa de Ávila
San Juan de la Cruz
José Lezama Lima
Macedonio Fernández

Maybe Augusto Roa Bastos? Couldn't say if is more popular in the South Cone but here it was "yeah, you could read that our you could also read the other two dictators novels that are easier, so..."

[Anonymous No.19101183]

>>19101160
These are all still pretty well known desu. Lezama Lima is probably more talked about than read but he is not only read by grad students. Same with Góngora. Santa Teresa and San Juan are both pretty popular. Macedonio is probably the lesser known among them.