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What is this boards opinion on using litchart/sparknotes alongside reading to catch all the themes?

>> No.19638131
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What if I don't catch all the themes, what then?

>> No.19638136

I did that in high school
It helps but maybe after every chapter you should review or take notes so you can grasp all the themes yourself

Or buddy read

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WHOA THE THEMES BRAH

>> No.19638149

>>19638124
Wouldn't use them alongside, only after or on a re-read. I also wouldn't use those websites, I would use actual secondary literature. However, if you do want to you use online resources cliffsnotes and crossref-it are far superior to the ones you listed.

>> No.19638154

>>19638124
Theme is a formalist creation. It's the academic's way of inserting himself into the conversation and driving it. It's yet another way by which academics look down on the artists who create the work on which they've made their careers. Theme is the wheelhouse of men whose intuition is a withered vestigial structure and wholly subservient to the cold, reptilian logic-brain which is the antithesis of art, and the most inhuman of all human traits. Who gives a shit what the "themes" are? Who cares if you miss them? Enjoy the art. Allow yourself to get what you get from it instead of wringing it like water from a stone. Art is the peak of pure, undiluted humanity. To apply an overabundance of logic to it is to miss the point.

>> No.19638177

>>19638149
>actual secondary literature
How would I find these for the works I'm reading?
>Cliff notes and crossref-it
Noted, I'll check them out

>> No.19638189

>>19638177
>How would I find these for the works I'm reading?

Are you at college? University library database is the place to look, if you have a uni email. Otherwise I guess JSTOR. Even though you need an account you get something like 100 free articles first. However it takes a bit of experience separating the wheat from the chaff - they will let anyone write an essay these days.

>> No.19638193

>>19638124
Detrimental. You're getting someone else's interpretation of the work. It's IMO one of the worst ways to read something, close to using a companion.