>American """literature"""
>>9873983
I can see how a lesser mind might single out that section, out of context, and attempt to trash an entire novel from it. Sorry it was too hard for you, anon. You'll just have to grind a little more.
>>9873983
>postmodern """"literature""""
fixed it for you
American literature from 1850-1969 is great
>>9874021
Pretty arbitrary dates desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXHlOnKmdI
Memerson retards BTFO.
>>9873970
Well, he did get told there, can't deny that. He's always so slimy and dodgy when talking about Christianity. He just flat out refuses to give straight answers to simple questions when dealing with this topic.
>>9873970
t. brainlet
>>9874019
I always just assumed he was a protestant because most of the they don't know why they believe the things they say they do. They can never give a straight answer on anything important.
So, now that the dust has settled ... what think?
>>9873955
reddit: the book
pretty good book /lit/ thinks they're above it because they read Camus once, it's the mount stupid thing. mongoloids revere it, pseuds hate it, patricians enjoy it for what it is
>>9873955
Funny, but I think it might be a really in-your-face type of humor, since I was 13-14 when I read it and I understood a lot of social jokes on the books.
I understand the limitations of the scientific method and logical positivism. But why do people pretend that those limitations imply that continental philosophy or critical theory or religion have any worth? Why do you refuse to admit that the judgement of these things relies on fashions such as academia citation circlejerks?
>>9873943
*blocks your path*
>>9873943
good thread
>>9873943
>I understand the limitations of the scientific method and logical positivism.
>limitations
I disagree.
I want to read the entire Western Canon.
I know that I have to start with the greeks, but where?
Is there an infographic about it?
What are the books I should be looking for?
>>9873922
charts make you procrastinate
read Theogony - > Illiad -> Odyssey then come back
>>9873922
Does anybody know any theories about things simply not existing to benefit our emotions.. for example;
Break up with gf - Does it REALLY matter? Does she actually exist outside of the realm of my thoughts etc
Someone dies - Were they ever alive to begin with? We only miss people because we are selfish and miss the way they made us feel rather than what they actually contributed to society..
Can't think of anymore at the moment but you get the idea. An intense way of thinking that takes over the mind and makes you numb, dismissive of negative emotions/pain.
I know nihilism focuses on pessimism and that nothing really matters, but thats still accepting whats right in front of you and will still allow it to effect you.
Inb4 just drink a bottle of whiskey
Inb4 feeling emotions is a beautiful thing
>>9873651
Drink whiskey faggit
>>9873651
easy
>>9873928
Fucking A
>using "She" as a generic pronoun
>article takes a genderfluid approach (he, she, their, xer)
Ridiculous. I almost always choose the female characters when I play video games but if I have to confront this shit in real life it's aggravating.
captcha: summerhill rose
>>9873647
>I almost always choose the female characters
Faggot
>>9873802
Why are you quoting me?
Can bad people be great artists? pic not related because he's a bad person and a bad artist
>>9873583
Bad people can create things which titillate the reader's sensibilities, make them feel "aesthetic appreciation" and "overwhelming emotions", can create apparently beautiful things, but bad people can't make art that will truly change a person's entire way of living and thinking like truly spiritual art does.
>>9873583
Of course. You can be a degenerate piece of shit and have truly great innate talent. some douche once argued with me that oscar wilde should be out of the canon because he was a child molester. Lulz. The art and the artist are separate, something that was once understood and is now forgotten in the era of "this book is by a black trans female so read it" ... who gives a fuck who wrote it? There might even be a black trans female who writes great things ... though the odds are probably stacked against them by societal expectations that they will write about topical issues and trends that have no stock in eternity, only highlighting the mental preoccupations of the moment, not of all time.
>>9873839
yeah but boypussy is actually patrician so bad example
I want to start reading about synchronicity/metaphysics
What do you reccomend?
Also I'd like to avoid any low-yield book as I'm quite unfamiliar with the subject
Self bump
Plz reply first time posting
I don't know much about philosophy. What has been written on cruelty?
Shit happens.
They've got you dead to rights. I don't have to do a damn thing. Reap what you've sown.
Who wrote a greater depiction of dystopia?
Do your own homework.
>>9873397
Huxley seems more likely to actually happen,but orwell's world has more character imo.
>>9873408
I always thought Orwell's dystopia in 1984 seemed more "in your face"
while Huxley's had a more subtle approach to it
Karl Marx
>>9873365
Karl Marx is dry as fuck.
>>9873365
hey neat, I cut this excerpt and did the underlining. It's a great essay, glad to see others saved this image.
Is it a waste of time trying to read pomo writers? Do they actually have anything profound to say or is it all just gibberish bullshit?
sounds like you are a brainlet
>>9873236
Mostly the latter, anon. People claim PoMo fiction is justified and derives its value within the context of the modernist tradition, but anybody who actually studied modernism intently will tell you that postmodernists are wholly and utterly inferior in terms of effort, clarity, intertextuality, and their knowledge of the canon as a whole. It's the first tradition which operates independently of the traditions before it, so that instead of expanding, it destroys.
Postmodernists are skeptics but offer nothing by way of synthesis. Any child can mock, or knock down a sand castle, but not every child can build one.
They're all frauds and they're bad for literature.
>>9873281
this
Do you think literature and reading today is more popular than centuries back?
>>9873143
Yes and yes. We read more than any generation has read, in terms of actual text (Facebook feeds, shitposts, Reddit, etc).
With Literature, that depends on how you define the word. We read a lot though, and paper book sales have been steadily increasing for two years.
>>9873143
Yes, but it's not necessarily because we're more intellectually curious, it's mainly because we have easy access to books (compared to pre-industrial / pre-printing eras) and because more people are literate.
>>9873143
Yes and yes. Tho reading much isent the same as reading something good. Many people read a lot, but seeing that a awfull lot of the se people stick to YA only, I cant say this changes things for them.
>>9873140
Life is about bending them slimmies over, plenty Bentleys and Rovers, half-naked women for limmy chauffeurs, crib with the Fendi sofas, black Cosa Nostras, crack Jehovas stacking like Sosa, tailormade suits with Gucci penny loafers, MAC-10s in holsters for rats and vultures.
>>9873191
What's a slimmie?
Comic, interwoven narratives questioning reality, identity and meaning in a combination of hard cyberpunk and magical surrealist settings.