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Is genius or a troubled wild life essentially necessary for becoming a great artist?
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>>7608541
depth in feeling and experience is
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>Dostoevsky
>Great Artist
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Basically you need to have had:
A) An unhappy childhood.
B) Alcoholism
C) Depression
to become a successful author.
How do I get into philosophy?
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>>7606856
Start with the Greeks.
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Philosophy peaked with Descartes' Meditations
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No. It peaked when existentialism bloomed. Just start with Kierkegaard. I fell for the Greek meme and it was just a waste of my existence.
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Hear ye Hear ye! Calling all /lit/ards!
post i' here ya 5 finger stories. post ye 5 word stories and I'll anounce the winner in but 45 winks of a moonfaces big 'and!
Laesh go go go!
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The OP is a faggot.
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Her shit hit his chest.
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chains are off, language's master's
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Essential nihilist books. Go.
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What is this sequence?
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Check the wiki, for fuck's sake,
Saged.
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>>7606062
Someone had to post it
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last time you paid for a book
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When was the last time you bought a physical book/played for a book?
I can't even remember since I got my kindle, I only torrent all books. Its easier and better than real books. more eco friendly and less bulkier.
I honestly don't get why people still buy physical books.
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>>7605339
I bought a house with a library (flyover country) and have been filling it up slowly. Last book was Carpentiers Kingdom of this World which had an excellent condition mark, and which was filled with notes. I bought from alibris.
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>I honestly don't get why people still buy physical books
Mostly because the machine I read ebooks with also has an endless internet porn. Moreover, there's a sense of space associated with progressing through a set of physical pages that isn't nearly as satisfying when done with an ebook.
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Books are also beautiful objects. I also love how they smell. Moreover i read a lot of old books wich are difficult no find online.
Excuse my poor english
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Why is Japanese literature so much more robust (for lack of a better word) than say, Korean, or even Chinese? Certainly if only considering ancient texts Chinese and Japanese works are on par with one another. But after entering the modern era Japanese writing (and art in general you could argue) seems to be just far more advanced stylistically in addition to having a wider breadth of topics that it covers.
Contemporary works in China are completely stifled for political reasons of course but even Korean works seem to only focus on a handful of subjects and follow a very western style while Japanese works still pull from more imaginative realms and still follow a more Japanese literary tradition in style.
Why such a large disparity /lit/? I ask you because I'm no expert on Asian literature myself and was curious. The picture is the only one on my phone.
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Japanese literature was westernized
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I think your Japanese view is heavily influenced by the handful of exceptionally good authors such as Mishima and Soseki. If you take those away there isn't much notable writers and works left.
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>>7602490
Is Oe any good?
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fuck all these threads desu
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what are novels/short fiction with characters who are philosophy grad students or philosophy professors? have Foucault's Pendulum so far
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>>7594535
>fuck all these threads
I love the thread-close button feature for this.
Maybe QTDDTOT could advertise the chatroom
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Authors similar to Tom Clancy? Themes I enjoy: unadulterated patriotism, fear of "others", oper8or as fuck.
>inb4 get out pleb
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Physical books that you love.
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El Barto xD jajajaja
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>>7593890
I love my copy of "Il trionfo della morte" by D'Annunzio from late fifties.
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My decade old scarred up and annotated Gravity's Rainbow. Marginalia from so many different readings and places in my life. You can track an ever changing view of the book and in a way of my life. It's almost become like a diary.
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Any good book of old Japanese poetry of any form like tanka, haiku and so on?
Post your favorite poems!
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farewell poem to the plum blossom ois goat
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>>7591982
haiku (adults only):
A weird protrusion,
exaggerated outie.
It's a human dick.
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>>7591999
I showed this to my little brotherhe then raped me :(
http://w.tt/1Vc9XFc I've been writing this for almost a year.
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>Andre Edward Lee Chapl
Why didn't you post this in a blog?
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Can you help me analyse this poem?
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My galley, chargèd with forgetfulness,
Thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass
'Tween rock and rock; and eke mine en'my, alas,
That is my lord, steereth with cruelness;
And every owre a thought in readiness,
As though that death were light in such a case.
An endless wind doth tear the sail apace
Of forced sighs and trusty fearfulness.
A rain of tears, a cloud of dark disdain,
Hath done the weared cords great hinderance;
Wreathèd with error and eke with ignorance.
The stars be hid that led me to this pain;
Drownèd is Reason that should me comfort,
And I remain despairing of the port.
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>>7610249
Highschooler detected
Mods contacted
See you in hell
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>>7610253
>highschooler detected
Nope, I'm studying literature in Europe.
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>>7610255
Yeah you wish fag.
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I want to develop a basic understanding of literary theory and its history/evolution and thought this might be a good place to begin. Am I making an awful mistake?
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Norton Anthology is usually accepted as the gold standard, but the Johns Hopkins has a very good reputation as well. Just note it's more of an encyclopedia (organized alphabetically) as opposed to the Norton, which traces major theorists chronologically.
The Johns Hopkins also doesn't include excerpts, but is rather just essays outlining major theorists + some general contextualizing and interpretive information.
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>>7609625
Thank you, the Norton Anthology is exactly what I was looking for.
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These were posted the other day:
Abrams - The Deconstructive Angel
Barthes - Death of the Author
Benjamin - The Storyteller
Derrida - Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Foucault - What is An Author
Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Miller - The Critic as Host
Orwell - Politics and the English Language
Schopenhauer - On Authorship and Style
Wimsatt - The Intentional Fallacy
http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/iWrNbwkv/file.html
With these orders:
Historically:
Schopenhauer - On Authorship and Style
Benjamin - The Storyteller
Orwell - Politics and the English Language
Wimsatt - The Intentional Fallacy
Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Derrida - Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Barthes - Death of the Author
Foucault - What is An Author
Abrams - The Deconstructive Angel
Miller - The Critic as Host
Thematically:
I Structuralist, Post-structuralist, Linguistics
Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Barthes - Death of the Author
Wimsatt - The Intentional Fallacy
II Deconstruction:
Derrida - Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Abrams - The Deconstructive Angel
Miller - The Critic as Host
III Psychoanalysis:
Schopenhauer - On Authorship and Style
IV Politics, Ideology, Cultural History:
Benjamin - The Storyteller
Foucault - What is An Author
Orwell - Politics and the English Language
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I have to choose one of these books for my History class. I obviously don't want to waste my time and money if it's going to end up being a shit book, so throw me some suggestions please.
Book 1: Revolutionary Mothers, Berkin
Book 2: George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade and Yaeger
Book 3: A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier, Martin
Book 4: Partisans and Redcoats, Edgar
Book 5: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, Kilmeade and Yaeger
Book 6: The Barbary Wars, Lambert
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>>7609603
Not that any of these are shit. Rather, I'd just like some outside opinions that aren't google reviews. Sorry if any of this made me sound like a dick.
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>>7609603
pls
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>>7609615
Through google you can find reviews in academic journals. Check those out.
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i´m interested in "sacred geometry" (metatron, life flower, platonic solids kind of stuff) and beauty mathematics (fibonacy, golden proportion etc).
i do not know where to start, i never study "hard math", just the basic calculus and algebra or fin a serius book about it (just mystic mindfart).
what can you recomend? something to start with and get the bascis
thanks /lit/, by the way, if you have something in spanish (i lear english but i prefer my mother lenguage if possible) that will be the best thing, but if dont i can deal with english
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Maybe start by learning the correct terms for the things you're supposedly interested in, as well as how to spell them, then go and ask on /x/ rather than /lit/.
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Start with Euclid's Elements
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>>7608850
sorry for any spelling horrors, i came to lit couse i want something more serius abour (an study about their presence in history maybe?). anywhere i find something interesting i just end up with "iniciation" and stuff like that.
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How many of you are Primary, Secondary, or University English Literature teachers, or students studying Literature with notions of becoming teachers?
I teach International Baccalaureate English A at a private school in Asia. This year I'm teaching:
Othello
The Great Gatsby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fight Club
~15 poems by Edgar Allan Poe
~15 poems by another author (I did Elizabeth Bishop the previous two years but want to pick a new poet)
I'd like to discuss attitudes and ideas toward teaching as well as future aspirations with other teachers. Also, if anyone's interested in what it's like to be an English teacher (or an ESL teacher, as most of my friends are), I'm an open book.
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>>7608632
>I teach in Asia
So it's safe to assume you were a mediocre university student that is arguably borderline retarded and had no actual prospects post-grad so you fled to Asia? Nice
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>>7608635
Not too far off the mark. The job I have now is legitimate high school teaching, but I don't claim to be a great inspiration to my students or Harold Bloom or anything.
I could go back to the states and teach the same curriculum with slightly less enthusiastic students and much less pay, which is partly why I'm still here.
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>>7608635
tfw I would have done this if I were white
...Asian countries being as racist as they are I'd imagine being brown would nullify being American.