Is reading the cannon of world literature good enough to learn to write and be considered a cultured person?
No, you will only be cultured in one medium and you'll probably just write in bad imitations.
>>8260618
name something good in literature that isn't from the cannon.
>inb4 pleb shit or fiction
>>8260627
Culture is more than literature. If you know the literature canon (not cannon) but you fail at identifying Bach and Gauguin, you can hardly call yourself cultured.
>>8260674
yeah, but this isn't a board about music or any other types of art.
>>8260627
the fuck is this question
>>8260674
>board about books
>you should know about music
>board about films
>you should know about videogames
>board about videogames
>you should know about comics
>>8260694
exactly
Unless your idea of being cultured is simply to know more than everyone in a particular area.
>>8260674
>thinks being able to "identify" music or art is worth anything at all
lmmaoaoooo
>>8260766
>the question is about books and the cannon
>the context implies literature knowledge
>he replies about other artistic mediums while the question was specific to literature
>>8260606
You'll be hard pressed to read much of anything if you can't write.
>>8260778
No, the question is about being considered a cultured and good writer.
>>8260795
you won't become a good writer by listening classical music or watching renaisance paintings.
your advice is basically knowing how to draw by watching films or knowing how to compose by watching paintings.
>>8260807
>watching renaisance paintings.
>>8260807
You won't become a cultured anything by ignoring half the things people say to you for your own benefit.
>>8260814
>making sure they are not actually gifs
>>8260817
so your advice is to become an expert over every artistic medium rather than to focus on the one we're talking about, right?
the question is about becoming a better writer.
other artistic forms of art are irrelevant if you plan on learning how to write.
>>8260861
>going from addressing half a post to not addressing anything in a post
You won't ever be cultured, but one day you might be a successful politician.
>>8260885
Is reading the cannon of world literature good enough to learn to write
you don't ask a writer about music history or music composition, you don't ask a musician about poetrhy.
>>8260861
No the question was about being a cultured person. If the question was supposed to be about only writing then you need a beginner's guide to composition, not try and swallow the cannon (sic).
>>8260894
this board is about literature.
you can be a cultured person in one field.
most people know about some very few fields they specialize in.
you seem to live in a fantasy world where people can know everything.
>>8260902
You seem to live in a real world in which you know nothing, and I'm not talking about Socratic ignorance.
>>8260909
so your advice is to know a little of a lot instead knowing a lot of something?
>>8260918
My advice on how to be a cultured person is to know about many aspects of culture.
>>8260919
you can be a cultured person on just one field of knowledge.
you know the definition of an expert, right?
>>8260922
Why are you talking about experts?
>>8260606
Nope I read it all and forgot most o it by the time I finished.
>>8260929
people value more a cultured person on just one field than someone who knows a little of everything.
you don't need to know about everything to be considered cultured.
>>8260922
Yes, it is different to the definition of cultured.
An expert in Victorian literature wouldn't be much good if he didn't also have a detailed knowledge of the rest of Victorian culture, politics, religion, etc.
>>8260935
if he's an expert on victorian culture.
nobody will give a fuck if some expert on literature and world history of literature knows nothing much beyond literature.
same as nobody ask an art historian to know about politics.
>>8260942
Every art historian would know the political milieu in which the works are written.
To be cultured is to have a broad understanding of culture, not a narrow specialisation in a particular area. If you want that specialisation then good for you and good luck but don't call it cultured. A painting expert who uses that word incorrectly could be forgiven but not a literature expert.
>>8260948
I've always find a topic you lack the knowledge.
what if you don't know nothing about math?
about physics?
games?
each country history?
each major religion century?
where do you draw the line?
It's an useless task to know about everything.
Do you consider someone like beethoven not a cultured person because he wasn't a math or a scientists?
how bout gabo?
is he not a cultured person because he has not training on money investing and banking?
>>8260606
To get good at writing, you have to write.
>>8260606
No, it literally doesn't matter how much you read. There's no way around it - start writing.
>>8260776
It's the lowest common denominator
>confirmed for can't identify anything
