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Is he, dare I say it, the most overrated author of all time?
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>>9358312
Fuck off Stephen you fucking hack reeee
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>>9358305 (OP)
Far from it. Faaaaar from it, boy. If there's anything he is probably underrated because of the genre he writes in. If you think otherwise then you just don't know how to read.
>>9358317
And I actually just rewrote my comment because of a typo. Stephen King, like him or not, is a very good author.
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jk rowling
go read the jaunt by stephen king and then come back to this thread
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Abandon Academia. Become an Autodidact. 2017-04-09 02:59:32 Post No.9358220
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Abandon Academia. Become an Autodidact.
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Abandon Shitposting. Become An Hero.
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>So you're telling us that instead of getting your degree, you just stayed home and read a bunch of books instead. Tell us, why should we hire you over someone who's actually proven herself to be learned and reliable?
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Ok I will. In fact I will not abandon academia and continue to be an autodidact as well. Best knowledge gains.
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>send three of my recently completed poems that I put a lot of theory and craft into our to publishers
>wait 6 months
>the five or so places I submitted poetry to responds with a simple "we enjoyed__ but it's not right for us!!!!"
>look at their other published
>One poem was literally the word water rearranged a bunch of times each line
what the fuck man. Where can I publish modernist/naturalist poetry?
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>poetry
>theory
Pick one.
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>>9358182
>poetry
I found the problem.
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>>9358211
t. Water poet man
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Question 17.
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Information.
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facts or information i'd say.
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It's facts.
All the others require either using facts or analyzing them, which requires understanding of the facts.
Look for the most basic version free from interpretation, essentially.
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So /lit, what's the best english translation to the Epic of Gilgamesh and why?
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>>9358160
Why bother? It's not an important work in any way, and there are tons of better epic poems you could read instead. If you're not interested in learning Sumerian to understand the actual poetics of it it's nothing but a historical curiosity.
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>>9358164
>ignores question
>creates new question
>answers question
>??????
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>>9358160
I've read the Benjamin R. Foster translation from the W. W. Norton & Company which is pretty normie but I kinda enjoyed reading it.
Its a nice epic if you love Mesopotamian culture and history.
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What are some fantasy novels that deal with the concept of isolation?
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My Diary desu
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Infinite Jest, Finnegan's Wake, the list could go on
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>>9358047
came here to post this desu
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I wrote what I thought was a really good poem but my professor hated it.
How do I know when to trust my professors and when to go with my gut?
Pic related, what I got back.
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"Ending feels too neat"
It would really suck to have to read a bunch of these shitty poems and come up with something that looks like analysis.
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Not sure if the professor hated it. It's solid critique.
Why do you like the poem?
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always trust your professors, never your gut
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Anyone here have any reading/writing experiences with the most /lit/ psychoactive substances?
Going to have some lsd for the first time in a while tomorrow, and i intend to explore my relationship with literature.
Ive read poetry before while under the influence but never written much that made sense or read anything substantial.
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What are you going to read?
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>>9357904
I want to start with Hop on Pop and slowly work up to Go Dog Go
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>>9357886
>Not getting so high that you are unable to read
Do you kids actually think you're doing real LSD?
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Any English grads here?
What should I do now I've graduated? Should I go to China and teach them the white man's language? Or should I hold down a shitty job while I write my novel?
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Should I study english if I'm not a native
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>>9357872
You shouldn't get your advice from strangers on the internet.
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>>9357942
Where else?
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Books where characters play 4D chess?
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>>9357853
How is it?
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>>9357845
my diary desu
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>start reading book (non-fiction, theoretical / technical )
>Let's say it's a 300 page book
>Decide to read 50 pages a day so that I will finish it on day 6
>Stick to Schedule, much of the information goes in one eye and out the other
OR
>read it MUCH slower (10 pages a day) but retain a lot more of the information
Can anything be done to fix this? Or is it the equivalent of trying to consume all of your calories for the next few days in one sitting.
It doesn't seem to be a matter of memory capacity.
>In the amount of time it takes to read 50 pages of book A, instead read 10 pages each of Books A, B, C, D & E (all similar in density)
>Retain about the same amount of info from each
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spaced repetition
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>>9357802
I read about 130 something pages of catcher in the rye today and i could probably tell you everything that happened
You just have autism brah
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>>9357802
Depends of the difficulty of the book you're reading. Just because you can remember everything you saw at first glance on the first 50 pages of Harry Potter doesn't mean you will
also do it with Hamlet or Moby Dick.
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After I finish my first book (and possibly trilogy) I want to make a spiritual successor to Bionicle. How much can I get away with before being sued/ not being able to publish?
Is "too many similarities" already something that could be sued over, or can I be as on the nose as possible as long as it can still reasonably be argued as only being similar?
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why are you here
do you find this fun
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mowree
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>>9358008
New Zealanders are backwards af. They eat their boiled eggs with the shell as a "treat", and it's unusual to have a fridge at home. Why is NZ even considered "western"...
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So basically i'm studying at a Lycee ( high-school) in France, we've studied poetry, novels, the theatre and now we have a new chapter called " argumentation ".
Now i'm sure that the French people who browse /lit/ can help me because i'm lost, i don't understand what i'm looking for and what the purpose of this is, any examples ?
Any clearer definition ?
I would really appreciate it !
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bumping !
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>>9357770
Les deux livres qui sont cités sont de l'époque des naturalistes.
J'imagine que ta question a rapport avec
comment ont décris la vie des gens ordinaire dans la littérature de la dite période.
Si je comprend bien, ils veulent que tu compare les différentes périodes et que tu fasse le lien entre les genres d'argumentation. (ex : pamphlet, manifeste, plaidoyer, etc.)
J'aimerais t'aider plus, mais nous n'avons seulement qu'effleurer le sujet dans mes cours de littératures au Québec.
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>>9358082
Thanks for the insight but i forgot to mention pic was unrelated, i'm talking about the argumentation in general, we haven't begun it yet.
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The Republic: Book X - Ion vs. The Poetics 2017-04-09 11:14:35 Post No.9357731
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The Republic: Book X - Ion vs. The Poetics
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>"The imitator or maker of the image knows nothing of true existence; he knows appearance only …. The imitative art is an inferior who marries an inferior and has inferior offspring."
- Plato, The Republic
>“the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”
― Aristotle, Poetics
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>>9357731
What are you trying to accomplish with this anon?
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>>9357748
Just wanna know /lit/'s opinion on these mofos and their varying opinion on the imitative art.
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you're taking thesequotes out of context
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Are the Sherlock Holmes stories good? Which ones do you reccomend?
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Dear God, just read all of them you stupid lazy fuck.
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>>9357732
I have things to do though.
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>>9357732
There's only so much you can read in a life time. I'll read one recommended story and if I liked it enough I'll read some more. Just blindly reading everything out of some misplaced principle is retarded.