I will be teaching myself Chinese and Arabic semi-intensely (when I actually can afford the time) over the next few years. Are there any good linguistics books on these languages? Also, please give any advice for learning new languages (these will be the first since my high school language).
Both very "geopolitical" choices...
If that's what you're after, trust me when I say you should learn Russian as well.
>>7389038
Thanks! That expedited my search in terms of Arabic, as long as that poster also dumps the rest of his stuff.
I'm still looking for accepted/recommended Chinese textbooks, though (really excited to read Chinese poetry).
Do you know anything, personally, about Chinese at all?
Is Mark Corrigan not a young Leopold Bloom?
>Socially awkward but somewhat lecherous
>More sexually active than one would expect
>Exceedingly well-read
>Bored in a middle-manager position
>Irish and probably Jewish as well
>Friends with a much more outgoing, much dumber guy
>stream of conscious
I think you're onto something... How long until the next season?
i think considering jez to be dumber than mark is a grave misreading of what peep show is
What do you guys do with books you don't want anymore? They're just random paperbacks so it's not like they're worth selling online. Mostly they are books I've bought for class, but I'm an English major so they aren't really textbooks.
Leave them on public transport or in coffee shops/bars
Or donate them to a charity shop
Give them to Goodwill, if you're American.
>>7388814
>you don't want anymore
does not compute
Hey /lit/. It's been a year or so since I've posted here, but I come to you needing opinions.
I've been asked by the university I teach at to present a short, half semester workshop on postmodern literature. I've only been working here for a couple of years so this is something I need to do well. This is my first open-ended teaching experience.
I've got to select and teach 4 books, one a week. I've chosen so far On A Winters Night a Traveler, Times Arrow, and crying of lot 49.
I need one more.
What do you guys think I should choose? And of my current list? I'm not a huge Pynchon fan personally but I feel Lot 49 is probably a necessary book for an undergrad seeing this stuff potentially for the first time.
I need to finalize all of this by December 3rd so the information can be processed and posted for students signing up.
>>7388810
Of Grammatology
The Cannibal by John Hawkes
>>7388818
This is a great selection if the class was allowed more content, but I feel I need to throw them into applied concepts a little more. I selected Lot 49 and Times Arrow because they should be able to genuinely enjoy them, and I selected If On A Winters Night because I hope it will challenge and intrigue them, but I feel Of Grammatology is a little too philosophical to fill any logical role alongside these. To phrase it differently, I worry Of Grammatology may be too far in the direction of theory rather than application. I'm going to do on/off lecturing and cover as many general topics as I can while also having days dedicated to the books, and I certainly plan to weave other books and their ideas into the general days, but I can't justify having that one be one of the four books they actually read and have to write on.
So when the Devil is talking about the Ubermensch, was that just a general idea among intellectuals at the time in Russia, or what?
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Idk but keep posting silly covers.
Top Three
>Hamlet
>Henry IV
>Midsummer Night's
Antony and Cleopatra
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
>Hamlet
>Macbeth
>TITUS ANDRONICUS
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>>7388785
How many have you read? I've only read Othello, Hamlet and Macbeth. If Henry IV and A Midsummer Night's Dream beat both Othello and Macbeth, I'm going to have to look into those as the next ones. Othello in particular I would have thought among the very best.
Hey /lit/,
Look what came in the mail today. Pretty neat!
That's the little black classics collection? Nice.
How the hell do they keep them a uniform size anyway
Why don't the penguins line up
Why
>>7388800
Well while it's still difficult, one thing they did was for shorter things, include multiple stories. For example, Socrates' Defense is one piece, while the Poe actually includes Tell-Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher, and A Cask of Amontillado.
>>7388804
They do, they're just in there pretty snug and I haven't pressed them down nicely.
What's your favorite /lit/ conspiracy/conjecture?
I've always liked the theory that Shakespeare was Catholic. It feels appropriate.
>>7388719
your favorite conspiracy is shakespeare related and it isn't even about marlowe? boring choice 2bh
antony and cleopatra had a happy ending
The animals in Animal Farm by george Orwell are symbolic of communism
Every single day I want to read for hours on end, but I end up wasting time online. Do you have advice?
turn off the computer. make it inaccessible to yourself. go read at a book store or a library or a coffee shop without any electronics.
turn your computer off
>>7388652
Regiment your time. Like schedule in your mind the amount of time you're going to do one thing and the amount of time you're going to do another, and be diligent about actually sticking to that schedule. Say to yourself that you'll read for 2 or 3 hours and after you're done you can go online for 1 hour. It's not enough to just say that you want to read, its important to actually set aside time to do it, away from distractions like your computer. Try to read earlier in the day, too. That way if you're done with your reading for the day by dinner you can go and do whatever bullshit you want to do after dinner with the feeling that you've actually done what you wanted to do for the day.
Why is tragedy a higher form of art than comedy?
>>7388445
Is it?
You're the one who thinks it, you tell us.
>>7388445
What did they call the Greek who made the best jokes?Aristo-funnies
I used to think /lit/ was exaggerating how autistic and metaphysically braindead STEMfags are, and then I read this post by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist Paul Graham, who shall be permanently confirmed to be a complete dumbfuck.
http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
>philosophy sucks because Aristotle was wrong about things
>philosophy is just messing around with language
>Wittgenstein saved philosophy
>I took philosophy classes in college, so I know what I'm talking about
I just finished the PI and I've never felt more at peace in my life.
STEMfags are joyless dullards, water is wet
>>7388374
Ever consider that STEMfags might just understand it better because they think more clearer?
What does /lit/ think about pic related?
Also, where are some good sources on him? I have to give a tribute speech and chose him as my tribute.
he's dope. read the hound. but he was a bastard in life
>>7388421
I dont really read, but the genre he created seems great because Cthulu n shit.
Fuck, I wish I could get back into reading.
>>7388371
He was riddled with prejudices and fear. In his defense, however, he did have a sort of messed up up-bringing.
He is the precursor to modern horror and an inheritor of the strange tale.
Any of the cited references here should be good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
How come so many of you on this board hate this? Willing to have a reasonable discussion, I'm just genuinely curious.
I thought he made a lot of good points and while I thought Aristotle was better, I did prefer this over the majority of Kant and Nietzsche's works.
I honestly found Kant to be insufferable and impracticable yet Rawls and a lot of his contemporary followers seem to stem off Kantian thought I work through Kant in order to refute such philosophers.
Mill wasn't that bad to be honest family. He took a lot of previous utilitarian thinking and brought it from the radical notions down to an outline that does make some good points as you have mentioned.
>>7388395
/lit/. Philosophical works of literature are accepted here. Shesh.
What are some literary equivalents to Berserk?
Suicide. Try it.
Shadow of the torturer is the best you're going to get mate.
>>7388364
Thanks. I was thinking of picking up Wolfe next.
>love reading
>hate discussing it
anyone else feel like this?
>>7388152
I feel ya, whenever I try to describe the story it just comes out as
>uhh this one part happens
>and its cool cause then this shit happens
>uhhh one sec I forgot a couple things
Maybe I'm just an asshole after the years of being made to feel awkward in social situations, but I love stepping on peoples feet by talking about lit. Like, you know that open space after you ask someone how are they and they automaton something like "good"? If I know someone probably doesn't read I'll be like "So what books have you read lately?" "Have you ever read Joyce?" or something like that. Just to make them feel like the weird awkward asshole and not me. It feels really good.
Yep. Reductionists are generally unstimulating.
>meh, it's overrated.
