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Where to start with lit crit?
Want to read a lot of it. Any good recommendations for starting points?
Norton anthology of criticism is the best single book and willmdo.more for you than pretty much anything else.
it misses moers city of dreaming books. thats a good start to fuel the love for literature
>>7604946
I assume that's not a book to be read from cover to cover -- could one just jump in and read the works that interest them from the anthology?
Why haven't you read the greatest novel of the latter half of the 20th century?
I have. It'd be cool if you didn't do anything to bolster the efforts of those who are pushing it to meme status though.
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I read his short stories and they were terrible. Horrible stylist. Not going to waste my time with a shitty doorstopper because muh big hard buks epeen
>tfw realize you haven nothing to say that hasn't already been said and in far more interesting terms
Time to stop writing I guess
>>7604831
Well...
Nobody's asking you to say something new and original in an exciting way.
Go read moar.
>>7604831
Anon, haven't you realized that you're going to have to enter into an obsession with another, established writer, to the point where you are so agonizingly concious of your own flaws that you snap and start interpreting flaws into the other writer that you can then fix with your own works
>>7604833
What's the point if you aren't contributing in some way?
>inb4 art for art's sake
What does /lit/ think about this book?
If I were the kind of social juggernaut who could manage to go on more than one date with a woman, it would honestly be my diary.
My valve sputters at the mere sight of such a thing, o fortuna why do you mock me?
An excellent presentation of autism.
Hey /lit. How does one become better at reading/analyzing literature? Besides reading a shit ton of lit, are there any supplemental books that I can read or any other suggestions that you guys have? thanks.
>>7604410
I read Gaddis's recognition and there's a website with sypnosis's and chapter by chapter guides. So I would read a chapter, think about it, and then read the site and see if my understanding was similar to the sypnosis of the chapter.
Doing things like this helped me. after this, i moved on to JR
I was totally lost until I stumbled on Susan Wise Bauer's "The Well Educated Mind." It gave me a reading list which is actually what led me to /lit/, but more importantly for your sake (since you're already on /lit/ and likely have a decent fix on finding real literature), it was basically a crash course in literary analysis for each of the five genres it discusses: fiction, history/philosophy, autobiography, poetry, and drama.
Each section has an introductory ~30 pages for the history of the genre, a reading list with blurbs about each text (with...
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>>7604439
I appreciate it anon, I'll give it a shot.
What is the superior choice in literature? I personally believe that vanguardism is the best, pic not related
Géniale ton image
Is this worth reading? Also does anyone have a pdf? Don't feel like spending $16 on it
we had to read it last year when I was a senior in AP Lit but I didnt bother
>oh btw I was in AP lit
Kill yourself.
>>7604361
>being jealous of someone who took AP lit and barely got by with a B minus
don't be so petty anon, its just a high school course
>>7604461
Kek. Everyone on this board from the US was in AP lit. You're the only faggot who thinks he needs to insert it in his stupid thread. There was no reason for it.
Which boards do you frequent and what is your favourite book?
/lit/, /x/, occasionally /tv/
gravitys rainbow
>>7603821
/lit/, /his/ (for shitposting), /aco/, /ck/
Timaeus
I just read this. Is it good?
kekd
Haven't read the second story. Others are worth reading for a laugh.
>>7603562
I don't know. Is it?
>>7601706
>Vonnegut
>Sci-fi
Thanks fag, I've been looking for this pic. I wanna pick up Kushiels Dart bc it's "romantic". I don't know what that means really and I wanna read a love story.
>>7601718
just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't fall within the bounds of the genre, bud
Books you have in a foreign language
Here is a hungarian Gravity's Rainbow
I have some books in English, does that apply, since I am south american?
>>7601586
The dustjacket is pretty based tho, where is it?
ITT: Books that almost, or made you cry.
Never happened
Can a book make you cry if you do not identify with any of the characters?
>>7600972
That part when Hitler dies.
>>7600977
Yes, it's called empathy or sympathy.
Luther insults thread?
>You are the most insane heretics and ingrafters of heretical perversity.
-From Explanations of the Ninety-Five Theses, pg. 88 of Luther's Works, Vol. 31
>>7599090
get that cock out of your ass u catholic faggot, don't u know thats sin
>>7599092
epin
What is the disconnect between "Western" and "Eastern" philosophies? Why is Western philosophy predominately discussed here over Eastern philosophies? Is it solely because must of the people visiting this born were born in and live in Western countries?
What is it about East Asain and Middle Eastern philosophy that's unappealing to Western thinkers? Idk if Africans have philosophy, but if they do, the question also applies to them.
>>7598881
Before anyone says
>leddit
I'm not criticizing Western philosophy or complaining about "Euro-centrism," I'm just genuinely curious.
Plenty of western thinkers like eastern philosophy. Schopenhauer, Thoreau, and Heidegger to name a few.
Indian philosophy is discussed here quite often.
Anyone have /lit/ version of this? Thanks in advance.
not really i don't think
maybe this
>>7594316
or this?
I have it somewhere, but I haven't gone through the process of labeling every picture on my computer yet.
