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Do you like ghost stories, /lit/? Let's talk about horror.
Or is horror too easy and pedestrian of a genre for you snobby nerds
Horror books fail to be scary and lack of any literary merit
>>7731222
Boo!
>>7731222
Bump
Trying to expand my genre pallet this year
What's some philosophy that deals with themes commonly seen within the catholic belief system
>>7731136
Literally St.Thomas Aquinas is what you're looking for.
His "Summa Theologica"
Do German Idealist aesthetics have any applicability for literary criticism?
Go read Kant and then see for yourself!
http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Kant,+Immanuel/Kritik+der+Urteilskraft
poststructuralism is its closest relative
-autonomous value as opposed to heteronomous mimesis or paedagogic utility (platonism, marxism)
-focus on subjective impression of the "consumer" as opposed to artistic intent
it also helps that most german idealists saw literature and poetry as highest artforms while neitzsche, schopenhauer or adorno favored music
>>7731176
>focus on subjective impression of the "consumer" as opposed to artistic intent
Even with all the theories of genius?
>because races condemened to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
r u fucking serious marquez
>>7731097
>I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times
Are you serious wallace?
yo fuckin consider the fact that possibly he wrote that line and THEN felt the excerpt represented the work as a whole unless you seriously think he thought of a quirky title "one hundred years of solitude" and extrapolated an entire book out of that which would explain your feelings of being slighted somehow because the author didn't write the work "legitimately"
..bittch
>>7731097
>As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect after having undergone metamorphosis
I stopped reading there
I hate to start a new thread about this but I need to know -- a bookstore next to where I work is selling the two volume set of Aristotle from the Britannica Great Books series for next to nothing. Are these the unabridged, complete works of Aristotle? I've looked online (and my Google-fu is strong) but can't seem to find the answer.
Also anyone with a general question about books can drop a response. Thanks!
Even if they are they will not be very good translations and they are worth about next to nothing individually. Maybe 10 dollars each.
>>7731079
>The Great Books series reprints the works of Aristotle in the standard English translations, licensed from Oxford University Press.
From what I can find it's all the known works, so you should be ok there.
This took me literally less than 10 seconds to find, so....fuck you, OP.
Logic treatises (Organon):
Categories, translated by E.M. Edghill
Prior Analytics, translated by A.J. Jenkinson
Posterior Analytics, translated by G.R.G. Mure
Topics, translated...
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>>7731148
I searched for more than ten seconds, but I accept your 'fuck you OP' and thank you for your service.
Which author has the best prose?
>>7731078
Joyce
Nabby
Faulkner
Eça de Querioz
Louis-Ferdinan Céline
Machado de Assis
Vladimir Nabokov
Knut Hamsun
Thomas Bernhard
Raduan Nassar
What edgelord writer has the sharpest edge?
William H. Gass
"I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not my best part."
Renzo Novatore.
An edge so sharp, tens of millions died. That'll teach them, for listening to the ideas of a basement dwelling underachiever.
Hello /lit/
I have two questions about the Adventures of Huck Finn.
It would be greatly appreciated if someone with this knowledge could help me out.
1) How do Huck and Jim react when the two men they find reveal that they are Duke and Dauphin? Contrast the ways that they treat them before and after the revelation. Why does this make sense?
2) Huck says that it doesn't take long for him to realize that Duke and Dauphin are lying about their identities, and yet, he decides to say nothing about it and act as if he knew nothing about...
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>>7730909
Literally, underage b& wants a swers to his homework. SAGED.
I honestly don't even understand why you'd need help with those question. They are VERY easy to answer, and I mean VERY EASY. Go read the fucking book, idiot.
>>7730926
Actually Sir or Madam, i am eighteen years of age and a high school graduate.
I'm trying and failing to find novels like pic related. Novels or stories that are interested in oral storytelling and folklore without being shitty updates of fairy tales.
Any recommendations? New or old.
>>7730836
obvious question: what's this about? Looks cool.
>>7732405
It's about Ned fuckin Kelly, the greatest outlaw in all of Australia. He just wanted to lead a normal life, but society was against him.
>>7732413
Lel
So i just finished book 5 of this amazing series. Can anyone name me a series that is as epic as this. I like books that have constant action and have a huge scope when it comes to lore and characters. I've heard The Black Company, The Stormlight Archive, The Wheel of Time and Mistborn are all good series when it comes to war, gore, lore and fantasy.
>>7730813
The iliad
>>7730813
not lit
there's a containment thread for posts like these
but even there the books you posted are looked down on
try https://www.reddit.com/r/books
The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. The final book hasn't been released though.
How does /lit/ think of Atlas Shrugged?
No memes, pls.
>>7730708
The book itself is a meme though so you're already discussing a meme when you try to talk about it.
>>7730708
How many times are you going to make this thread this week?
Needs more pirates.
Is Super AMOLED display good for longer reading?
Only e-ink is acceptable for non physical reading
>>7730705
mr special snowflake buy a kobo like everyone else
>>7730705
AMOLED devices have god-tier efficiency since the pixel itself shuts off entirely when it is shining black.
/lit/ as a person that has never visited New York or America is this piece still worth picking up?
I was intrigued by the power dynamics acting out throughout this book but I'm afraid there will be too much location-specific story making it obsolete for me to read.
Read or abandon?
Thanks.
Also; ITT - general power broker thread
Yep. This book is primed to become the next big meme. Give it a month.
Read it while you can.
I want to read Aeschylus. I'm thinking about buying OUP's Oresteia and Persians and Other Plays (Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound), all translated by Collard.
Are these good translations? And am I leaving out any of Aeschylus' works?
Aeschylus is widely translated. I have translations by Fagle, Verall, Valacott, Paley, and I plan on exploring the original Greek because the translations are often encouragingly diverse.
What do you guys think of Turgenev? I read Fathers and Sons and Torrents of Spring and loved both. Going to read some of his shorter works like Mumu and First Love here in a couple days too.
sportsman sketches senpai
>>7730402
i read first love just two days ago and i think it was quite bland to put it carefully, none of the characters were particuarly outstanding, maybe the novella was just too short to develop them to their full extent.
it was literally "tfw no gf"- the short story...
Dr. Lushin was based though and the only red-pilled character
tell me what you think about it when you're finished or make another thread, turgenev isn't talked about enough on /lit/
Only read Fathers and Sons. Read it twice though, great book.
