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>>7437686
I'm a moron: the post.
This hack is only famous because he wrote in that fancy Old English language
>>7437759
He wrote in the same English as you and I.
Why is English literature so fusty and gay
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/dec/08/best-british-novel-of-all-time-international-critics-top-100-middlemarch
Middlemarch is supposedly the best British novel.
However, the question stands:
What the fuck is Middlemarch?
>>7437659
Its on Gutenberg for free, find out.
Also, Remains of the Day should be more popular here, its basically feels guy as unreliable narrator.
I've read most of Middlemarch and yeah it's pretty great. Mostly because it did a lot of novel things first.
> little kids can memorize the entire Koran (8 hrs)
> western academics don't believe Homer was one man, his works must have been the result of collaboration over the span of many years
>>7437514
>western academics don't believe Homer was one man, his works must have been the result of collaboration over the span of many years
>implying there is a academic consensus on the homeric question
>>7437519
20th century has largely been one of academic skepticism towards Homer and many subjects.
"Well, this is here stuff is really olde. It was probably bullshit because it WE are the only generation to have found the truth, that there is no truth! Can't believe all those idiots actually thought Homer was real! Even Aristotle, what a chump!"
>>7437536
There has been tons of studies on the oral tradition and the capability for transmission especially in the dying elderly of central Ireland who can still recite the poetry and in many African tribes for whom oral transmission is key. Michael Woods has a good documentary on it.
Has anyone read Elliot Rodgers's 108,000 word Manifesto; 'My Twisted World'?
What did you think? Do you think it will ever see an official publication? What is your opinion on promoting creative content of immoral people?
he's a poor writer
>>7437369
tfw elliot lived the literary lifestyle more than you ever will
>>7437378
go throw ice tea at some girls
I haven't been able to read since my 16th because of severe concentration problems. I want to ease my way back into it by starting out with literature translated to my first language, because reading in English is too difficult right now. Should I even bother? Also, rec good yet easy reads.
>reading translations
Why not start with writings directly coming from the language you're familiar with?
>>7437351
GA DAN EERST NEDERLANDS LEZEN DROL.
BERNLEF, HERMANS, CLAUS, VAN DER EEDEN, MULISHGOD.
WE HEBBEN PRACHTIGE NEUKENDE EIGEN LITERATUUR, OOK TOTALE NEUK ZOALS DURLACHER EN DE WINTER MET HUN NEUKEND GEILE DOCHTER. MAAR DE ECHTE NEDERLANDSE LITERATUUR TOONT ZICH IN SUBLIEME NEUKENDE NOVELLAS VAN BESCHEIDEN LENGTE, NEUKEND DIKKE VERHALEN KOMEN MAAR EENMAAL IN DE CARRIÈRES DER SCHRIJVERS DUS JE BENT ER NIET LANG MEE BEZIG.
DAARNAAST IS MURAKAMI SIMPELE NIET LITERAIRE NEUK, LEES DAN EERST AFTER DARK...
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>>7437894
You seem angry with your moonspeak.
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies...
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>>7437270
If you can't say it in easier terms then I'm afraid sociology isn't really your thing.
>>7437273
I think that's his point.
Gramsican conception of hegemony has nothing to do with your faggaultian power dynamics
when will you fuckwits understand this
MEME TETRALOGY
McDonagh is trash.
>>7437181
my man you are a disappointment
BAMP
I dare you fuckers to write a poem about the Picture of Dorian Grey. I bet you can't even write one line you retarded cunts.
Alternate title
For your consideration:
I Woke Up Like This
Dorian Gray's
author was gay
by which I mean
he sucked cocks
all day
The most epic inspirational speach from the top of your head?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE
Nixons first address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhMkATbNNPA44
Curtin's speech to the British and Americans
"We fight with what we have and what we have is our all. We fight for the same free institutions that you enjoy. We fight so that, in the words of Lincoln, 'government of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the earth'. Our legislature is elected the same as is yours; and we will fight for it, and for the right to have it, just as you will fight to keep the Capitol at Washington the meeting place...
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>>7437098
Great one
Hey folks, I'm not sure if I can request help here on /lit/, but it seemed like the right place.
So I've got an essay due next week,and the prompt is
"In what ways do these two female writers establish a feminist literary tradition? To what purpose?"
It's six pages-- nothing huge. It's about selecting two female authors; one from around the English Reform-ish time, and one from modern times. I've already got the authors I want selected, so that's not real important. I just can't figure out for the life of me...
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>>7436944
what class is this for, exactly?
Women and Literature, survey course with an emphasis on reading the literature through a feminist lens.
>>7436944
sounds like retard shit TbH
Tell me everything you know about Grendel
>>7436880
The character in Beowulf or the modern novel?
>>7436916
Character in Beowulf
>>7436880
Hampered by the fact it was designed to fit in an AR-15 action. 6.5 Creedmoor has better ballistics all around.
This was great
Probably the only book I enjoyed reading and couldn't put down.
Anymore books like pic related?
Maybe similar to gangs of bros goin around getting into mischief I don't know
I haven't read the book in years and mean to go back to it. What did you like about it?
>>7436858
It was just fun with how the characters interacted (particularly Alex) with the world and deciphering all the vocab was fun. I'm going to read it again because in the early chapters I'm sure I missed a lot of the vocabulary I understood by the end. It was just a story I wanted to keep knowing what the gang was gettin into next and the outcome of it all
>>7436868
> reading for the plot
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/3v027t/book_recommendation_the_care_of_the_self_by/
r/Theredpill discusses Foucault
Presented for your enjoyment without further comment
>>7436837
>I have such mixed feelings about Foucault and other continental philosophers. On the one hand, they literally invented the blue pill and carry on the tradition in our academic and intellectual institutions in a way that truly sickens me. On the other hand, a lot of the shit we talk about from how ideologies perpetuate, how the ruling class makes their ideas seem subtly timeless and eternal while more of a background to knowledge than something to verify and check, and how power shifts, was shit...
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>>7436837
Who gives a fuck.
some quotes
>Best book by him is Discipline and Punish. Read that book and start saving for a gun.
> Foucault is Blue Pill phaggot
> he thinks everything is a social construct.
so is this his best book?
If Pynchon is so for the workingman, then why does he write novels they can't read?
>>7436827
Because writing at an eight grade reading level isn't fun or rewarding for him, and he clearly enjoys writing the way he does.
>>7436827
>people who work can't read
>the unemployed can read well enough to enjoy Pynchon
This logic is completely faulty.
There were people on their deathbed awaiting the conclusion of this series.
King might has well have just put "fuck you" in comic sans as the only page of the book. What the fuck happened?
>>7436783
>waiting on your deathbed for Stephen King
What did they die of? Shit taste?
>>7436806
KEK!! HAHAHA HOLY FUCK!
I didn't like the metafiction element in the books.
