When reading literature specific to a region (American, Russian, French, etc.), how many books does one need to read in order to stop being a dilettante in that specific region's literature? When does one know they have stopped being a dilettante?
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>>9490167
youll know when you no longer think about shit like this
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>>9490171
Lmao
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>>9490167
If you don't learn the language you're a dilettante
Are writers on /lit/ a literary movement?
I mean, we all hang out here and discuss literature. The writers that come here are trying to respond to the culture around them by producing distinctive art. Some of us have collaborated on a few highly experimental books. We're all trying to make it, and some of us probably will.
How are /lit/ writers any different from the Beats or the Lost Generation or the Brat Pack? We're pretty much replicating the stuff they did, only online.
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>>9490126
/lit/ is Oprah's book club for sperglords
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There is a roughly 0% chance any writer from /lit/ will become influential in any way
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>>9490126
no. stop trying to take shortcuts to any sort of significance.
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What's the general opinion of Nixon's books?
From the little I've read he actually seems very moderate, maybe even progressive.
He certainly is an interesting person and there's currently no Republican like him out there.
But maybe he'd be a democrat today considering he was so anti-gun and pro health care.
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I haven't read Richard Nixon's writing but I read Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Reading political memoirs feels like a waste of time because they seem like they're still lying to prop up their image and further their agenda. When I finish reading, I don't feel like I know what they think - rather I know what they want me to think they think.
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This whole book is basically just a bunch of shitposts, isn't it?
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>>9490025
>he never did the Kenosha Kid
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>>9490025
What is this?
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>>9490025
His entire project was to shitpost on the board that is/was modernist literature.
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Has it ever occurred to anybody that there are an exorbitant amount of phonies on this board?
It seems really obvious to me, but I also can't tell if I'm delusional or if i just know too much.
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>le narcissistic meme
epin mlady
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>>9489969
Congratulations on finishing Catcher in the Rye for the first time time.
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>>9489969
Holden is the phoniest character in that book.
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What gives that a lot of people were able to easily get sucked in by books as teens but struggle to read as adults?
I'm more interested in the "why" than the "how to get it back".
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Adults have things to deal with, such as jobs, families, taxes, depression etc
Books lose their appeal as they require too much free time investment, something adults don't often have.
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>>9489960
Please, most Adults have plenty of free time. More than enough to read. Most of them just that time on some form of social media or watching tv.
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>>9489960
that's surely a factor. but why is it so easy for a lot of adults to waste hours on stuff like tv and internet but not reading? is it really more effort?
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What are good literary works on Anthropology?
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>>9489865
The Golden Bough is necessary reading.
FYI- I've never read it
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>>9490005
Thanks anon. I hope you're not bullshitting me considering you have not read it.
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i accidently learned about various anthropological schools from this book about ayahuasca, because it explains their historical attitude towards shamanism. but the author also believes that amazonian tribes grok'd DNA and traditional medicine via hallucinations.
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Good books on econ for someone who doesn't know anything beyond supply and demand?
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>>9489806
Henry hazlitt, economics in one lesson
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The General Theory of Employment, Investment and Money by John Maynard Keynes
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Name a worse publisher
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>>9489800
Wordsworth
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>>9489800
https://www.dukeupress.edu/
The plebs on this board who dont look at new publications of non-fiction have no idea how awful a publisher can be.
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>>9489813
Duke is a good university so how bad could this possibly b----
>Featured Subject: Disability Studies
>In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie’s historical and cultural roots
>In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture
>Critique of Black Reason
>Living a Feminist Life
>Decolonizing Dialectics
>27 things to read if you care about women of color
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Why do weaboos like him? Many people on /v/ claim him as best writer in the world.
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>>9489731
he's the non-reader's author.
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>>9489731
I'm autistic and I can't recognize people's faces. Who are you talking about?
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>>9490656
haruki murakami
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The Arthurian Legend Thread
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What books would you recommend to someone that's interested in the adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of Round Table? What are the best/worst interpretations of the characters?
Who were the best/worst knights?
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T.H. White, The Once and Future King
and Sword in the Stone
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>>9489651
The Once and Future King
La Morte d'Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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>book cover is a photograph instead of a simple title with mono color background
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>book isn't a 1000 page essay on how good hamlet was
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>>9489590
dude hamlet lmao
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Like this
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>rich white people do nothing entire book
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>>9489444
it's not my fault if the only woman writer you know is a mediocre meme from /lit/
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everyone replying to this thread following this post will reincarnate as a syphilis bacteria
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>>9489452
>woman writer
>George Eliot
>George
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>Jesus wouldn't lie because he's a good dude
>He wasn't crazy because he said some things that make sense
>Therefore, he's God
What a shit argument
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>>9489234
>Protestant Theology
There's your issue
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Devastating summary and rebuttal, senpai
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>>9489234
Can you disagree with it only after you mock it?
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One Hundred Love Sonnets, doesn't have even one sonnet.
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Actually, it has.
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>>9489191
No, it doesn't.
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>residence on earth
>is actually metaphysical and abstract depression imagery