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Is there any good book about ship ?
>>8000928
moby dick
I picked up the Sailor who fell from grace expecting a dark sailor story only for most of it to happen on land
>>8000928
i know a great one
Should I read the Canterbury tales without a companion m8s?
I got a used penguin at the book store but I'm online googling some notes and realize how much penguin is missing out on.
The Riverside Chaucer looks good to save up for but I don't know if its outdated.
get the riverside
A serious question: How acquainted with phenomenology must I be before I dive into this? I can get how poetic images have a distinct dynamism and a result of a direct ontology, but I get flustered around the time Bachelard talks about causality and Minkowski's "reverberation," which sounds transcendental.
Also, as a tangent, any thoughts on the book to those who have read it?
>>8000671
As someone who has never touched phenomenology, you should just jump in and see what happens.
Finally, it won't be out of context.
is it as good as the movie?
I loved when ever someone was narrating. it sounded so beautiful.
>>8000292
do you live in central New Jersey? just wondering
>>8000296
no I live in Toronto. why. do I talk retarded?
>>8000292
some of the plot points are the same
and character names
but any poetic nonsense is fortunately absent from the book
the book is notably superior to the flick
postmodernism shit
>>7999943
did you actually read this?
it's about postmodernist interest in science from the scientific perspective.
it's not a critique of postmodernism as art, it's a critique of certain postmodernist's failures to understand science.
/lit/, what's your opinion on him?
>>7994528
>/lit/, what's your opinion on him?
I love him. I've been trying to copy him in building languages and so on but I'm not knowledgeable or creative enough.
>>7994575
Madlibs a foreign language grammar/vocab book
>>7994528
I just want him to be my grandfather and read me stuff.
Hey /lit/faggots im writing a letter to my friend in the Navy, tell me what to write him. Hes sort of an autistic robot who played video games all day and kept getting fired from his job.
Dear swine..
>>8000959
navy seal copypasta
>>8000959
Hey bitch, how you doing? I hope you don't get fired this time. Lol, if you know what I mean. "fired", get it? you know, they have gun and shit in the navy. ok. My anus miss you too. Cum home soon, my love.
is this book worth reading mates? if not any recommendations of good sad/thriller/suspense books?
if you read that, you will come back as a tampon in your next life
>>8000563
No, and I resent that her last name is similar to W.G. Sebald's so his books have to suffer being next to this piece of shit.
>>8000563
I didn't read it but my sister told me about it long ago.
It's nothing special.
Im probably going to transfer schools after this gap year I've taken. Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on pic related? The school i go to currently is ranked much higher than this place but does it really matter? Seems alright
>>8000463
/lit/ - literature
>>8000496
This is a lifestyle board now didnt you get the memo?
>>8000463
Where do you go to school now? You need to factor in cost of living to the equation.
What's the difference between a literary text and a non-literary text?
stupid distinction, bad question
stupid question, bad distinction
>>8000441
dumb frogposter
can anyone reccomend me essays or books on the culture of or the effects of technology and the internet /social media age?
i really enjyoed parts of dfw's e unibus pluram analyzing the culture of the 1990's, the use of irony in popular culture, and the effects of television on the masses - but i'm interested in somehting more contemporary, and more pointedly critical. dfw's essay is pretty free form and its attention is divided between culture and US fiction
already read ellul and zerzan too
I know a certain Byung-Chul Han has written some stuff related to this, but it might be crap.
>>7999310
Deetz?
>>7999918
full name?
Im thinking on picking up Adam Smiths
The Wealth of Nations..
My friend has the Oxford university press edition
should i give that version a read?
>>7998792
Check if it's the full text. I know modern library offers the unabridged version for about $15.
>>7998816
this version has 688 pages
the unabridged version has around 1,100 pages?
>>7998828
Shit man, how do you fill that many pages with 'specialisation is efficient'?
so, /lit/, lemme get this straight:
harold bloom (and half of /lit/) thinks david foster wallace is shit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom#Reception.2C_criticism_and_controversy)
bloom thinks new criticism is shit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon#The_debate)
dfw thinks new criticism is shit (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/03/on-fredric-jameson/)
eagleton thinks bloom is shit (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/aug/20/classics)
eagleton, zizek, and jameson are critbros (https://newleftreview.org/II/59/terry-eagleton-jameson-and-form)
militant social justice warriors think all of the above are shit
everyone else thinks militant social justice is shit
and analytic philosophers are laughing they're asses off
Hold on, let me get this straight:
People have opinions?
What the actual fuck is going on
How can Bloom be against New Criticism?
New Criticism is one of the only ways through which the canon continues to be talked about
>DFW cites Fredric Jameson by name as one of a group of critics whose English is "appalling"
>"pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipidelian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead.”
I bet DFW could not have written this with a straight face. he was either smugpepe or wincing.
Can we get some 80s-core /lit/?
wtf happened to breifcases sss sss. like seriously. I've never seen something that was around for so goddamn long just disappear in the blink of an eye.
>>7996740
virgin detected lmao
How can we make /lit/ great again, my fellow posters? Some suggestions:
>a lenghty guide to translations, from homer to dostoevsky
>update the wiki or change the wiki
>fewer dfw, pynchon, bolaño or whatever meme author threads
>more non-anglophone literature discussion
>ban "i started this book today, what do you think of it /lit/" posters
>ban frogposters
>ban butterfly
>>7996711
Goodbye, Rato
I think we should start a curriculum that isn't necessarily to be followed in a fixed amount of time or fixed chronology of texts, but instead groups of texts that consist of novels, poetry, essays, theory, philosophy and nonfiction, etc... that come from all backgrounds to provide for a wider read lit. It would take a group effort to design and perfect but i'm willing to try
>>7996737
and of course in turn each "group" that is created could be made into individual posts for years to come for discussion. Does this make sense?
