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Bump. Need some new reading material. Have checked the info graphics and such but would prefer to hear from individuals.

>>8810023
this is my dog work
dog
dog
dog
dog
dog

>>8810136
In hindsight, I should've written top five literary work. Point taken, I'll read dog for the next year.

yes but not without getting bullied

it's a good book but also high school reading

More like The Shit Gatsby amirite

>>8810007
Starting with a Jimmy Neutron image is really an ineffective start.
But, it does holster some realism, as the target audience of this show is identical to the bulk of readers of the Great Gatsby.

Truth be told, I haven't read the novel. Like most of lit. What I will say as an outsider on Moby Dick is that it certainly has the renown of being the greatest American novel to date. It's privileged in that way, and I'm sure it is with purpose.

Someday I'll read it.

blood meridian, suttree were better

>>8809929
that's not J R

>>8809896
My diary desu

The Bible

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>>8810752
M'good sir
*tips trilby*

>>8809864
Tell us about the paper OP.

>>8809864

Critical theory violates the time travel paradox.

Narratives are constructed recursively, and are kept when they work, and rejected when they don't, but they are also accepted or rejected due to the criteria of an intent. How then can you come to a conclusion, or pick a different intent post priori, then judge how the recursion progressed?

This is that same as going back in time while knowing what you know. You could be moving through time all the time and never know it because you simply hadn't experienced it yet, and have no memory of the future.

The same is true for any narrative. Deconstruction along different paradigms in the past brings what you know about the future to those choices that are already made.

Therefore, there is no deconstruction, only paradigm shift.

Although critical theory can make up new stories that themselves either work or they don't, they can't rewrite the history of the narrative being analyzed.

>>8809870
It's a pretty complex theory but i'll try to do a short synopsis of it. It's important to understand that the end goal of Adorno and Horkheimer was the emancipation of man just like Marx.

>The authors exiled in the U.S. in the 40s and the conclusions they drew by analyzing the capitalism are bad.
>They foresaw that advanced capitalism was to influence all life's domain.
>That influence got to culture and arts which are, according to the authors, a necessity for emancipation
>Birth of ''The culture industry'', mass produced ''culture'' which is now a standardized product like others.
>Mass culture and mass media constantly validates capitalism
>Individuals blindly adhere to the system thinking it's the best as media portrays it
>Rise of ''instrumental reason'', the principal reason in captitalist societies. Everything has to have a purpose and that purpose is often profit
>Fall of ''speculative'' social sciences and rise of positivism and empiricism of hard sciences
>According to Adorno, hard sciences and their facts can't comprehend society as a whole and again, are useful to make things easier, technology, etc. to make more profit
>Individuals come to think that after capitalism there has to be chaos
>Fall of traditional family values so individuals rely on mass media and society to guide them

You can then guess the result. It's much much more than that and really complex but man... They wrote that in the 40s and i feel like it's even worst today...

Read Werther. Absolutely magnificent. Where should i go next? Faust?

>>8809822
I started on Werther, loved it, then went on to Metamorphosis of plants and thought the idea and execution were genius, but then I went to Faust and was pretty confused throughout. But I hate Nietzsche said his conversations with eckermann were the best things to come out of Germany and wanted to read it.

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>>8809849
Heard not hate

>>8809755
it's by far his best book. none of his other work can even come close.

>>8809769
Oh wow i must have really scored then. That was the only decent book in that store haha

>>8809769
what makes you think that

Knuff

>>8809686
At the moment it is 5. But they are all very different.

Novel. Short stories. Philosophy. Non-fiction instructional. A collection of problems (like chess problems)

Usually one (1) literary fiction novel and one (1) non-fiction, mostly philosophy.

>>8809659
lord of the rings is this generations lord of the rings

>>8809659
I read the first and second books in the Lotr last week for the first time since I was a kid and I have to say I remember them being way better than they actually are. Almost the only interesting thing is the passages involving elves in the first book, the rest of it reads like a book for children, which I guess it was it is.

>>8809659
Criminally over rated tripe oiriginally intended for children that was later embraced by pathetic adults in a state of arrested maturity?

Yes I agree

Pls respond.........

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>>8809692
Yo
My name is Jeb and I'll initiate
the plea of the best presidential candidate

unlike I, my rhymes are energetic
my guacamole mind is telekinetic

You should vote for me 'cuz of my bruddah
and my son has a midget shitskin muddah

the hispanic vote I will receive
cuz hispanic kids my wife conceived

unlike my speeches, this won't make you tired
you'll be clapping with no requests required

Within these rhymes, I be tellin' you
if you vote for Trump, you hate the jews

The chaos candidate will end up losing
Albeit newest polls suggest hes cruisin'

My name is Jeb and I'm number one
now vote for me until I've won!

No idea bro, im pleb, but I will bump.

>>8809546
we don't

>>8809546
I didn't know they existed. Probably dumb like James Bone novels

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>>8809557
Why not?

>>8809457
You're right, this isn't the right board

>>8809458
So where do I ask?

>>8809457
>Is there a word for what that person is doing?
bullshit

its not

>actually believing memes

>>8809420
what is?

>>8809237
How is George Washington a meme>

>>8809237
As long as human history continues, Shakespeare will be remembered and read

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when will this meme die off?

>>8809214
I don't even like Murakami, but you're either a retard, a troll or both.

Wouldn't this be funny as hell if that "Harmony Korine" I know nothing about was a literary critic that wrote a very similar critique to any other author and OP is ironically plagiarizing him?

It's preferable to think that than to see this as a shitpost

>>8809214
woah woah woah leave Kaoine out of this. his movies might be shit, but they are still worth watching (for some reason)