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Does this board still pretend to hate Judith Butler even without having read her work?
Butler is a genius, but I'm formally educated in critical theory so I'm probably an outlier here.
>>8055703
I love her. I thought tumblr pretended to read her and love her but in reality probably really hate her for giving a voice to cis scum
>>8055703
try again without the inflammatory generalizations and b8, faggot
Hello, fellow kids. I need your advice. As you may think, I'm new in literature and I want to get into Edgar Allan Poe -pretty plebeian, for sure-, but I don't even know where should I start with this man.
What should I read first, kids?
God damn Poe was ugly.
No wonder his foster dad cut him out of his will.
>>8055695
s-start with greeks?
Aside from jokes, Poe isn't the most prolific author of all times, just read it
>-,
'Critically assess the concept of ‘interpellation’, and its role with Althusser’s account of ideology'
does anyone know any good sources for criticisms of the theory of interpellation, im about half way through an essay on it and other than zizek i literally cant find anyone who even mentions it.
also ive read a tonne of Baidou and concluded that he's an asshat with no idea what he's saying and nothing relevant to althusser, despite trying to seem so.
also a brief summary of Lacanian theory would be nice, people keep name dropping...
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>>8055660
>also a brief summary of Lacanian theory would be nice, people keep name dropping it and the Wikipedia page isn't very helpful
http://web.uvic.ca/~saross/lacan.html
>>8055660
>also a brief summary of Lacanian theory
You want to fuck your mother and kill your father... Topologically speaking.
Idk any good sources off the top of my head (maybe start with Foucault and go from there) but it took me a long time to figure out how to articulate what interpellation means. Basically in my understanding, interpellation is how the Self interprets and responds to the act of subjectification. If you're walking down the street and hear a cop yelling "stop, police!" you can interpellate yourself to be a bystander (the cop isn't talking to you) or a criminal/suspect (the cop is talking to you). It's usually reflexive/unconscious (if you shot someone, you...
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Could Kafka rightfully be called a pioneer for Absurdism?
He's more like the german Murakami
>>8055646
Considering how heavily his work influenced Camus I would say that Kafka had a hand in setting the stage of absurdism, but in phrasing it "pioneer of absurdism" you're implying that he had a more direct involvement with the preconceived philosophy.
Indirect pioneer of absurdism, maybe
>>8055649
>german
nice bait though
Do you still regularly learn new words while reading novels ?
>>8055492
No. I've reached the point where the words I do not know are the words that you only see in ironic purple prose contests, rather than actual books.
>>8055492
Neigh--having triggitancended linguigglesticks wit de "Get-Up Finneggle" quilled under Jimbob o'1-I, Eye-sea icy pan-wordbirds underta craggyracks a' flatspeak.
>icepick relambationed
>>8055503
Reply to this post with a word I probably don't know.
This just came in the mail. What am I in for?
Steiner thread btw.
>>8055473
Stirner, fucking auto correct
>>8055473
Your bookmark is gay
>>8055494
this
Just finished the first chapter of Stoner. Fantastic so far. However, I an curious -
Was Stoner a fool for going into literature and leaving his parents some and not telling them about his change in major? Is the point that his life was insignificant at the university (as described in the beginning of the book) and had he gone back to the farm, he would've still been insignificant, but this time doing something he wasn't passionate about?
why dont you finish the fucking book first retard
>>8055389
this
Is this worth reading or is it just a meme?
you can find out by reading it
>>8055365
Why is everything referred to as a meme?
What a coincidence. I just picked this book up after finishing Notes from The Underground and other stories.
I wish I could write like Dostoevsky. He's so incisive. Like he can pull his words straight from the soul.
why is breaking out into song such a staple of modernist and postmodenrist literature
it seems forced to me honestly, like everyone in fitzgerald's time was just copying joyce (i can believe joyce did it because drunk irishmen sing alot) and then the guys like barth and pynchon were mimicking them in some self consciously 'literary' choice
>>8055315
Because singing is fun
You never break out into a song with friends?
I used to hang with these friends that would break into song at random.
It was fucking terrible it was like being on the goddamn Disney channel
Hey /lit/, what do you think of Roald Dahl? He is my huge idol and I absolutely love his short stories. I write short stories as well and I get amazing ideas when reading his work. What about you?
>>8055278
I enjoyed his children's fiction a great deal as a child and still have respect for it but his adult writing I thought was just ok, they're entertaining but they never stuck with me as anything great
The only Roald Dahl books I especially remember reading as a child are Danny the champion of the world and boy, which I had to study in school, but I remember liking them a great deal.
Roald Dahl and Shel Silverstein are patrician-tier children's authors tbdesu
I want the sentence "Well then what are you?" to be spoken very quickly in one breath with no pause. Would it be grammatically correct to leave it as is, sans comma, or would I need to put one in? If so, where? After "well," or after "then?" I feel like both of those change the intonation of the sentence, the former placing stress on "well" and the latter on "well then," whereas I don't want either.
why does it have to be spoken so fast?
>>8055186
Why not just use dialogue tags, its you being faggy
"I'm not sad."
"What are you then?"
>at bookstore
>want to buy 1984
>see everyman edition and pick up that
>mom says why don't I buy the cheaper versions
>try to tell her those are cheap paperbacks which will fall apart in a couple readings
>try to tell her that Everyman hardcover editions are the most aesthetically beautiful books out there and will last me a lifetime
>she starts acting...
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>>8055159
>mom
>>8055159
This is good bait. The elitism, the implications of mentioning your mom, the 1984, it's all there.
7/10
eh 6/10, relies too much on predictable cliche
Am I doing it right fellas?
>>8055152
Reddit The Game: The Books
Yes, you are effectively ordering from Amazon. Congratulations.
>>8055152
both of those books are probably in the public domain.
Hello, /lit. I want to ask you about ZZ Packer. Well, not really. I want to ask you to point me to authors similar to her, or to works similar to hers.
I am a student of English (translation in particular), and I want to write my MA on translating the widely understood "Black English", and I may pick a book and translate it, and write about the process and the challenges. Problem is, I don't want to go to the obvious - Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Invisible Man, etc. I want to translate something relatively contemporary. I did a bunch of...
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>Has anyone on /lit/ read this?
no
Here are your options:
a) Wardine
b) Cry
>>8055134
what a trio of dross for endorsements.
What are some other books where a heterosexual male character is in a homosexual relationship?
your dads diary
>>8055102
you would know tbqh
>>8055101
women in love
