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Chaucer is the greatest writer of Medieval English.
Shakespeare and Milton are the greatest writers of the English language from the Renaissance period.
Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.
So who is (are) the greatest modernist writer(s) of the English language? Try to be as exclusive as possible in your answer.

>> No.7978715

Why ask questions you already know the answer to?

>> No.7978716

>>7978712
I think you know the answer. One of them you've posted, the other had breasts.

>> No.7978717

>>7978716
>the other had breasts.
Never knew that about Faulkner

>> No.7978788

>>7978717
>American
>English language
nice mee-meeh massa

>> No.7978797

>>7978712
George RR Martin probably. No prose can be as vivid as his. It is good and purple prose.

>> No.7978868

>>7978788
زميل آسف الانكليزي .

>> No.7979410

The guy in the picture you posted, Jimmy or whatever

>> No.7979421

Joyce is definitely the best modernist but who is the best postmodernist? Pynchon?

>> No.7979424

>>7978788
Hilarious coming from someone who thinks Woolf worth reading

>> No.7979427

>>7979421
Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Pynchon

>> No.7979445

>>7979424
Hilarious coming from a shitposter

>> No.7979456

>>7979445
I was only replying to your incoherent peasant gibberish

>> No.7979457

>>7979421
Philip Roth

>> No.7979506

>>7978712
For Modernism, Joyce is the most obvious choice.
>>7979421
Gaddis and Gass, though he doesn't consider himself to be a postmodernist.

>> No.7979509

>>7979424
>not liking woolf

wew lad sure is getting /reddit/ in here

>> No.7979536

>>7979427

Borges bridges the gap between modernism and postmodernism, but I wouldn't call him a postmodernist.

>> No.7979552

>>7979536
Just because DFW said it doesn't make it true

>> No.7979568

>>7979552

Just because Borges writes in a surreal style doesn't make him a postmodernist, either.

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>>7978712
>Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.

>> No.7979573

>>7978712

>Dickens

Dickens is the J.K. Rowling of Victorian fiction.

>> No.7979574

>>7979509
>liking trash
Sure is getting Reddit in here

>> No.7979581

>>7979568
Pierre Menard isn't postmodern?

>> No.7979586

>>7979581

Tlon Uqbar Whatever Whatever is closer to postmodernism than Pierre Menard.

>> No.7979590

>>7979586
It really isn't

>> No.7979598

>>7978712
George Eliot is superior to Dickens in every way.

>> No.7979608

>>7979590

Wow good point

>> No.7979614

>>7979421
>who is the best postmodernist? Pynchon?
Unless we are trying to be contrarians, yes.

>> No.7979619

>>7979427
>Robbe-Grillet
? Which book are you thinking about

>> No.7979625

>all this Dickens hate
Off yourselves retards

>> No.7979982

No Herman Melville mentions? Herman Melville.

>> No.7980131

>>7979619
Le voyeur

>> No.7980158

>>7979608
about as good as your original baseless assertion

>> No.7980172

>>7979982
He wrote one good book
If you actually think he's the greatest modernist you're an idiot

>> No.7980177

>>7980172
>He wrote one good book
Same could be said for Joyce.
>If you actually think he's the greatest modernist you're an idiot
If you actually think he's a modernist at all, you're an idiot.

>> No.7980178

John Green

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>>7978712
>Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.

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>Dickens

>> No.7980189

>>7978712
>baseless opinion stated as fact
>baseless opinion stated as fact
>baseless opinion stated as fact
>question that will be answered differently by nearly everyone and will achieve nothing but argument

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7980196

>Dickens is the gr
stopped reading there

>> No.7980201

>>7978712
>le dickens is bad meme

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>>7978712
>Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.