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One of England's main exports has always been English culture. Even today. This tiny island is the source of The Lord of the Rings *and* Harry Potter, both of which are reverent toward English culture and nostalgic for its past.

This has always been so. English novels got translated and pushed in Russia as soon as they were written. And they've always pushed Shakespeare really, really hard (they still do). Tolstoy read him knowing that his reputation was "greatest writer of all time," which is a meme the English started. That's why he goes in on Shakespeare so hard in What Is Art?, his aesthetic treatise. It wasn't just Russia that was obsessed with Shakespeare, it was happening in a lot of places all over the world. Everyone had to contend with Shakespeare because the English made sure he was ubiquitous, whether you liked him or hated him.

>>8693461
>>8693489
OP you should also know that by the 19th century, Russia had developed a sort of cultural insecurity in the face of Europe, which it was so near to but never a part of. The underlying phenomena here are the scientific revolution and the dawn of industrialisation in Europe, since those were the modes which enabled the organisation of Europes cultural capital in true classifications of worth (based on class, whose nuance comes with the onset of capitalism), which was of course essential for the beginning of imperialism.
Russia was not at Europes cultural level of development, as well as having a long history of direct tension between the creative impulse and the arms of the state. I think Russia has a longer history of explicitly and directly political art, because so much of it was written in dissent of the state.
England simply became the most efficient little cultural factory of Europe, and so their own most highly esteemed art was giddily gobbled by artists in Russia.

Because Shakespeare is the greatest

Try the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

just leave the house more

>>8693475
Already read it and really helped me to get out of bed and to get some work done but now I'm feeling stuck.

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>>8693247
He's just a degenerative anarchist with homophobic sensibilities.

>>8693291
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/04/slavoj-zizek-vote-trump-hillary-real-danger/

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>>8693307
What's the meaning of this?

>>8693235
Why don't you just try reading it my boy

>>8693235

dont for the low-iq and intrinsic meaning memes if you didnt get it right away. the beauty of pynchon is that his work warrants rereading and analysis.

not knowing exactly what is happening, if there is a uniform drive for coherence or not, and if anything is making sense is part of the fun in reading his work while at the same time, it is presented in the work by the experiences of the characters.

did you enjoy it? are you ok with not totally understanding a plot?

if yes, get GR and enjoy.

>>8693253

fuckin typo. "dont fall for the low iq"

>not being ebook masterrace

>tfw get all your books for free
>tfw get all your books instantly
>tfw get to keep them forever

Much better than a library m8. Especially when your library is like mine and barely even stocks the most popular classics.

>>8693189
>be spooked by mein properti

>>8693189
Support the artist you b leech

That's a pig.

>>8693124
no idea why would anyone eat this cute animal

savages

>that guy who thinks Trojan Women has a plot

>>8692921
adam egret plz die from aids

>>8692921
I'm pretty sure David Wallace logically ended postmodernism. This obviously doesn't mean everyone got the memo though

The more I watch Norm, the less cutting-edge I think he is. He relies on a lot of shtick.

We'll always have the Bob Saget roast I guess...

Fuck yourself.

I'll give you a golden star senpai, don't worry.

Only one though

>>8692794
Lol Hey however you review, a review is a review and i'm happy to have them
Can't progress without criticism

>>8692684
coincidence innit.

>>8692684
why don't you go look up the etymology of each one and come back to us?

>>8692684
Hysteria is rooted in the greek word hystera, which means womb. Hysteria was originally used in reference to women.

> Originally defined as a neurotic condition peculiar to women and thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the uterus

No.
Any film that you can regard as a text shouldn't be a film, because that means it isn't properly utilizing the fact that it's a visual medium.
/tv/ is a shithole but that doesn't mean films should be regularly discussed here.

>>8692511

My university's creative writing major requires students to complete classes in at least two mediums, and screenwriting is included as one of them.

A /lit/ thread about films should really be limited to discussion of screenwriting only, not directing or cinematography or any other aspect of filmmaking.

>>8692511
Where should they be discussed then? The point is to contain them to a general so that only one thread at a time contains references to film. It'd also get rid of all other film threads that regularly get posted here into the general, cutting down on shitposting.

>Any film that you can regard as a text shouldn't be a film.
Literally any film can be regarded as a text. They produce meaning in a procession of signs unfolding through time, which is basically what a text does. Unless we're gonna stop regarding theatrical works as texts, if they've ever been performed, it's a pointless old hat position to hold.

DUDE SCOTCH LMAO

I don't really care about the atheism bit but I enjoyed his political commentary. Wish I could hear what he had to say about this presidential cycle.

>>8692451
I'd like to know what he'd've thought about Breakfast too.

>>8692422
>temporarily out of stock
Go to Hell

>>8692456
is this a cookery pun? if so well done.

>No discernible talent

>>8692353
8/10 would kms

I never studied poetry, I wrote that poem without ever reading a book or relating to a poem

>>8692272
Just print http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf out and take it to a bookbinder. It's like 26 pages.

>>8692509
>not binding your own books

pleb

>>8693026
>autistic enough to perform a dull task for which we have specialists

>>8692271
Not really, but you pretend like you did for literary credit. You might even tell people it's better than Dunces to impress them, knowing that they won't have read it.

>>8692271
you liked the Arcade Fire album more.

>>8692296
ayy