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>> No.4114123 [View]

>>4114120

Anyway, I'm off. This board is full of faggots and I'm done wasting my pearls of wisdom on swine like you.

>inb4 you reply to me like a retard; I won't be here to read it, chucklefuck

>> No.4114120 [View]

>>4114114

You don't need to know the difference between inflectional phrases and small clauses to study novels, so you're full of shit if you claim that syntax and grammar are required for and English degree.

>> No.4114093 [View]

>>4114082

So you knew what X Bar theory is and how it works beforehand did you?

Pro-tip: that isn't the kind of "grammar" OP is talking about.

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4114079

Linguistics major here,

Get pic related OP, it's super accessible and comprehensive w/r/t syntax and grammar.

>> No.4113920 [View]

>>4113901

That's not what I said. Let them continue to publish essays on things written by other writers about things written by other writers about things written by other writers about things written by other writers in obscure lit crit journals that are only read by those who write for them all they like, but you have to be either mental or stupid to think that those lecturers were good choices for a video series.

Learn to think or eat shit.

>> No.4113846 [View]

>>4113844

It's like you read my fucking mind, anon.

I don't mind Frantz Fanon though.

>> No.4113841 [View]

>author is female

>> No.4113741 [View]

>>4113726

I think they can be useful to some extent. When I first started reading Kafka I got 'The Trial' first and found it quite boring. When I eventually got around to the short stories I loved them, and 'The Trial' grew on me after reading the short fiction first.

>> No.4113719 [View]

>>4113712

It's his easiest book by miles.

You don't have to believe me though. You've already shown you're far too prone to accept something as true just because a poster on /lit/ said it.

>> No.4113700 [View]

>>4113688

Fine, take Gravity's Rainbow, or, as a troll ITT has suggested, Against the Day as your entry point to Pynchon.

Cunt.

>> No.4113687 [View]

>>4113685

He was trolling, son.

>> No.4113679 [View]

>>4113667
>>4113664

The Crying of Lot 49.

>> No.4113662 [View]

>>4113654

I'm getting it, but I'm not looking forward to it.

I'm not getting it, but I'm looking forward to it.

>> No.4113644 [View]

>>4113638

I thought Eraserhead was his best.

Either Twin Peaks or Elephant Man should be the "start here" point in that chart, imo.

>> No.4112949 [View]

>>4112936

>Deathbird

My nig.

>> No.4112933 [View]

Hamlet.

>> No.4112920 [View]

Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, especially the section on Diogenes of Sinope.

Also Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, and any of the other quasi-Cynics.

>> No.4112914 [View]

Daily reminder that Brave New World actually WAS set in a dystopia, unless you want to ignore everything Huxley ever said about the type of world that he envisaged there.

I know you all like to be contrarian faggots though.

>> No.4112911 [View]

The House Next Door
The Haunting of Hill House

>> No.4112900 [View]

>>4112897

You simply don't appreciate my ground-breaking use of the dragon dildo as a symbol for the wistful melancholy of the post-post-postmodern era that we live in. I am the voice of my generation.

>> No.4112896 [View]

>>4112888

Absolutely. After all, my magnum opus "Ode to a Grecian Dragon Dildo" depends entirely on symbolism for its meaning and aesthetic appeal.

>> No.4112881 [View]
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4112881

Symbolism is a very important literary technique. Some might claim that use of symbolism in modern writing is anachronistic and pretentious, but I disagree.

For example, dragon dildos hold a great deal of significance for me. There is so much that is expressed by a big thick dragon cock that words just cannot say.

>> No.4112870 [View]

>>4110481

SUCH an annoying voice. Come to think of it, pretty much every lecturer in that series was just awful at speaking.

>> No.4112867 [View]

>>4112861

Ah, shit. Thank you for alerting me to my grievous error, master. I will strive to be less shamefully imperfect in future posts. I hope you will approve of what I post now that I will try to meet your standards, sire.

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