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>>9214893
On its own terms decon is realism with eyes. It's not terribly difficult, really just a matter of pointing out how most arguments, say, implode on their own. For instance, when Yeats wonders how it is possible to distinguish the dancer from the dance, the deconstructionist notes that the poet himself has just made that distinction, dancer\dance, so if the poet can distinguish, so can the reader, and the words as a result lose what is called 'meaning' --it's a pretty dirty business, some are more skillful at using it than others, but, at this time, though sometimes useful, thoroughly bankrupt as a religion.

>>9214893

tl;dring the post above, deconstruction is basically the idea that language is self-defeating. It's a pretty spicy way to rejuvenate literary criticism because now that we've said everything to say about most books worth reading we can go back and show how all those books are actually saying the exact opposite.

My favorite deconstruction is Zizek's commentary on The Sound of Music: The message of the movie is anti-nazi but when you look at the subtext it's secretly fascist. The good guys are pastoral aryans from the countryside, straight out of a German propaganda poster about the way the world used to be, while the Nazis are all wealthy, urban, jew-looking.

That's an example of deconstruction.

>>9214893
You can oppose Deconstruction to Structuralism, for contrast if that helps.

One of the simplest deffinitions I've heard is "swapping the foreground for the background". That is, looking beyond what is obvious and intended, and looking at the context surrounding the artwork.

traditionally maybe. but in our time: make it fun. make it easy, make it smart, make it ironic.

>>9214638
Anon I consider myself a traditionalist.

Fuck your post XIX century garbage literature.

>>9214650
have fun being irrelevant forever (it's only gonna get worse)

>>9214525
what a snooze this image is!

Does it matter? Kindle only does .mobi and .pdf so that's what I use though I most of my .mobi's are converted .epub files

>>9214525
>no Infinite Jest
I was scared to post here till I finished that book

>>9214810
>Kindle
>Pdf

I was under the impression it couldn't handle PDFs well.

>>9214406
Iliad>Odyssey>Aeneid

>>9214406
Nothing shocks so much as the conclusion of the Aeneid, but Odyssey is by far and away the best.

Odyssey is easily the most overrated

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This much.

They would probably be shitty pages.

>>9214343
quantity practice > few practice.
this is why you're a mediocre writer.

Sounds like butt stuff desu

>>9214314
Well? The conceits are bizarre by intent, while the notion of love in him, over time, becomes more and more generalized. As well as his notion of death: do not ask for whom the bell tolls, is a classic instance: It tolls for thee. Recognized or not, we're all saturated in love and death, and this is a problem. Like the Earl of Rochester he began as a rake, but unlike the Earl he lived it out and became a divine. The poetry and the sermons are alike fantastic.

>>9214314
Dude was writing erotic lesbian fan fiction about the poet Sappho long before it was considered socially acceptable to address the fact she was gay (rumours abound that her more erotic works were purged in ritualistic book burnings of the 12th century).

Also he had a weird erotic fascination with the epiphanic moment of being touched by God, usually figured through images of rape and pillaging. Pretty edgy imo but his love poetry is a thing of beauty

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

clearly you forgot to read Aristotle's Rhetoric

restart with the Greeks

>ate just about every dish on earth
>doesn't know how to boil an egg
really makes you think

>>9214225
didn't anyone tell this anon not to talk to ordinary people after finishing the canon? he's probably been out there trying to communicate for days

jesus fuck

i want answers people

Latin

Christians > buttfucking degenerates

>>9214100
Is that Harry Potter?
Latin is easier, but I can't say which is "better". Depends if you want to read Greek or Roman/medieval literature.

>>9214100
Latin desu, not much survived from the greeks. Of course, living languages, more specifically italian, french and russian would be better options.

>>9214068
Animal personhood is retarded. If a dog catches a rabbit do we put the dog on trial?

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>>9214193
Animal personhood can be retarded.

However realizing a person's animalhood is essential.

>>9214193

if the rabbit is just a random rabbit nobody cares

if the rabbit is someone's pet we kill the dog because its dangerous and sue the owner

i just shit a bunch of crap

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poe was a CUTE i tell you, a CUTE

The way I see it is anyone who would potetnialy write a long poem could potentially do so in such a way that parts of it could be broken and stand alone as their selves, like muscal albums, have songs, symphonies have movements

>>9213984
venus in furs

Daily reminder to NOT believe in Dana's lies.

Fuck off with this John Greene bullshit

>>9213951

this is pretty true

"breakfast foods" are obviously a big marketing scam

well do you know why that is

>>9213795
I prefer films to books, the only reason I come here is because people who pretend to like books are smarter than people who actually like movies

>>9213795
Your calculation and conversion are incorrect.

>>9213795
Reddit-tier humour

>>9213780
That's just asking to list every single idea by Aristotle.

he thought snot was brain matter and flies had four legs

he was a complete retard

He thought Plato a shit