What anime are on the level of real literature?
>>6374613
No Game No Life
Yuru Yuri
Boku no Pico
Monster
>>6374613
Monogatari. I mean it's a moot question since most animes do begin as light novels- by default "literature".
But Monogatari, even in the anime, focuses on literary elements such as dialogue, characterization and symbolism. Most importantly- it experiments with language itself, focusing on the written word. Now if that's not literary then I've been reading the wrong literary theories (and I haven't.) There's also booty and rape which is nice. (pic related)
Oh, and OP's pic related is not literature. It's beyond literature. It's more beautiful and meaningful than literature will ever be- it's politics <3
Why is Middle Age considered a dark period when so many elements prove the opposite?
Because it's dark compared to the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
>>6365630
How? It seems like it is considered dark because it is less known/studied.
>>6365639
It was the term used by scholars of the Renaissance to describe the earlier culture they were seeking to advance up and overcome. The values of the Renaissance have influenced latter thought so the term stuck. No legit historian would use the term "Dark Ages", though, nor would any legit historian claim that pre-Renaissance Europe was an age of total ignorance, and certainly no one would claim this was the case for the Muslim world or China in that period.
We judge each other based on our top 3 p4p best authors.
>Ernest Hemingway, Yukio Mishima, and Virginia Woolf
>>6339084
nice list, fag. you gonna kill yourself just like your authors?
Combined with your image I'm guessing you're a >tfw no gf skinnyfat faggot, and probably 20 or younger.
>Swift
>Pynchon
>Gaddis
>that list
rethink your life choices OP
My list:
>Twain
>Milton
>Proust
bookshelf thread
that's fucking awesome man!
looks so put together and admirable!
/phil/
left wing/right wing
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
Holy shit can someone just sticky this for fucks sake, it's good advice and all but do we really need a new thread every time it dies, if so just sticky the cunt thank you good night
I became a pope like three years ago and I can't stop. I stopped riding the metro and I don't spend much time in my country anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average pope condemns like zero sex abusers a year. If you deal with 5 a day, you are 5 condemnations above the average pope
-Don't force yourself to meet with poor people. Commit to washing the feet of 5 bums a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like washing more and after a month or so you should be washing 50-100 feet a day for pleasure
-Be nice to various degenerate groups at the same time. When I'm attacked by a difficult lobbying group of "Women should be Priests" degenerates or a tired argument from England about why "Being Gay is Okay" that makes me sleepy I start being nice to another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I support non-practicing homosexuals and moral atheists.
-It isn't a race. Being holy won't make you into the next saint that fast. Try to acknowledge what actions are for you to condemn and which aren't.
-Sell the physical copies of everything you own. When you give the things from your own money you'll feel like you're actually helping the world instead of making it a shittier place.
-Start with issues highly discussed in America and degenerate Europe so you feel motivated to help turn them to the light.
>>6352554
Saints perform miracles and this is one of them.
How do I appreciate these stories? The prose is pleasant but the endings fall so flat, unless I'm just missing something.
You are.
Joyce stories end in epiphanies. That's the point. There's something at the end of each that ties off the story in a way that, simply put, makes you feel something. I also find them incredibly depressing.
My personal favorite is "Clay" (aside from "The Dead," obviously). The woman is a dead soul, living a tragically pleasant and simple life...
I can't articulate my feelings about it so well, I'm not the best to tell you. But take care to notice the epiphanies...each one shows some spiritual desperation. I think it's wonderful.
I think you're definitely missing something. The endings are some of the most crucial parts, and they revolve around a literary idea that Joyce championed called the "epiphany" which has by now entered the colloquial englishspeak. Or maybe it's just not for you, you don't HAVE to like everything, or all the classics you know.
"A Painful Case" resonated with me.
"The Dead" was also interesting.
I am not sure if there is some method to properly analyzing or even reading the text on a superficial level,
but those two resonated with me,
either way.
before reading this book, is there a good introduction to understand it better?
It's for a course I took, help me :(
>>6326016
meh, not really. there are a lot of texts that are mean to be accompanied-readers which may help, but I just used Dermot Moran's 'Phenomenology' and had read Husserl's Ideas and Cartesian Meditations
Cartesian meditations by Husserl
What is the book that will convince me to go low inhibition and approach girls (even though I live in the UK)?
Don't say models by mark Manson.
Should I just read the stranger and then talk to a girl within 30 seconds afterwards?
>>6345318
Don't talk to girls just to talk to girls
post the original comic
>>6345342
this is literature
Does anyone have any tips for books about this period in Russian history? I'm trying to find good books about the Revolution, the Civil War, the internal Bolshevik power struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the Great Purge.
Thanks!
as long as you are reading a historian and not, say, for example, Trotskiy, Kaganovich or Anna Larina you will be fine.
Khrushchev released his memoirs as well. Another thing you shouldn't read.
>>6331515
because historians are always objective.
Define these words the best you can, in your own way.
>Reality
>Abstract
>Meaning
>Knowledge
>>6333745
You have four hours.
Is it possible to have knowledge of the abstract reality of meaning?
>Reality
Something people like to talk about in the abstract
>Abstract
Something people like to say when they talk about reality, especially when comparing their versions to your own.
>Meaning
an act of pure creation
>Knowledge
remembering the definitions of the above 3
Time for an Augustine thread.
His position on time is pretty fascinating, as is his conception of changing and unchanging reality. Did you know past and future don't really exist?
>Did you know past and future don't really exist?
Obviously
Yes, I did, at least I know Christian doctrine maintains this (I'm personally an eternalist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_%28philosophy_of_time%29).Which is why I think it would be impossible for God to know the future, since that would be knowing what isn't, which is impossible. He could know all possible futures, he could know possibilities, but to know the future concretely doesn't make sense. I think that's actually more consistent with the Christian notion of free will.
>>6333617
>Did you know past and future don't really exist?
What about like the birth of jesus and stuff?
Your 10/10 books.
>>6327054
I have yet to find a single book that is 10/10. Why don't you start us off OP?
a confederacy of dunces
>>6327058
Cause I can.
>Post-Modernism and irrational Critical Theory arguments are infecting every one of the social sciences
How long before STEM fields are next? How long before Engineering departments require "Critical Engineering Theory" and "Postcolonial Engineering" as courses? How long before Mathematics departments require "Gender Theory in the Practice of Mathematics"?
>dat paranoia
>>6320647
>Post-Modernism and irrational Critical Theory arguments are infecting every one of the social sciences
No they're not
Reading this now, loving it.
Looks gay. What's so good about it.
Too long
Too angsty
>dear diary, today I told /lit/ my feelings
Let's have an art thread.
And give me some recommendations for books about art. I'd like to read Marilyn Stokstads "Art History" but why is it so expensive? Any good alternatives?
