Tell me novels like "Whispers" of Belva Plain?
You know, novels about Domestic violence.
Why did you hurt Coco?
>>7474510
what coconut?
>>7474547
The girl in your picture is an EQG version of Coco Pommel from MLP. She is wearing a Crystal Prep Academy uniform.
Canadian literature thread:
Topic: Predomination of ethical criticism.
I believe that the moral edict of a novel, though inseperable, is ultimately irrelevant to the value of literature. This is not to say that morality does not serve purpose to literatures true virtues, aesthetics and form.
Instead of developing works of literature that introduce the universal concepts imposed on humanity that derive from the aesthetics, the supplanted ethical tradition reaffirms our cultural and psychological biases by refraining from the juxtaposition of opposing thought-- ecriticism places the cart before the horse.
As such, the Canadian literary tradition has, and continues to, fail in establishing a concrete canon.
>>7474459
whoa, guys. Don't spam the thread, this is a slow board.
Sounds like bullshit to me. Not even interesting bullshit. Fail better next time.
If it's parody, it's pretty dry.
>>7475424
Why is it bullshit?
ITT we try to come up with a title better than:
"The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra"
pro-tip:you can't
>>7474407
Why is he fat?
"Hypersphere" or "On His Sorcery, Oojamaflip IV of Croatia."
Dostoevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
CTMU thread
ctmu.org/
>2015
>being an atheist
>having an opinion that's literally unprovable and untestable
>getting mad at other people's more reasonable hypotheses
>muh proof muh scientific method!
Chris Langan already disproved atheism. It's like nonbelievers literally can't read. His CTMU also literally explains consciousness. Can atheists compete with that?
>>7474391
Atheists literally can't explain away their metalogical epistemic and ontological problems without resorting to a heuristic and logically untenable view of the cognitive-theoretical framework of our universe.
Prove me wrong, and no name-calling.
I don't think he understand the nature of mind.
>>7474479
He literally does. Just read CTMU and if your IQ is above 160 or so you will understand it too.
Have journalists written anything nonfictional of worth? In Cold Blood comes to mindeven though it's borderline fiction
About to finish pic related atm, has anyone here read it? What did you think of it?
bump you fucking faggots
meme threads about stupid shit reach bump limit but threads about actual literature die
fucking ridiculous
Like Dispatches by Michael Herr?
Do you know of any work that employs picrelated (work that uses irony to a confusing degree)?
Short stories, novellas, novels poems etc.
>>7473959
tundra
>>7474011
Level 2 post.
>>7474052
Level 3 post
>I’ll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance
>Your skill shall, like a star i' th' darkest night,
>Stick fiery off indeed.
Was he mocking Laertes?
Hamlet was Weird Twitter. He meant it if you agree. If you don't then he was just being ironic xD (not really tho)
>>7473940
He killed his dad and made his sister kill herself.
I think he was sincere, since he didn't know laertes was using a sharpened poisoned sword.
>>7473940
It's reasonable to assume. Hamlet does that a lot. He mentioned earlier to Horatio that he thought he would win the fight because he had been in 'continual practice' since Laertes went to France, so he is at least being dishonest.
Earlier in the play Hamlet says to Ophelia "I humbly thank you." It's hard to sit through because Hamlet is neither humble nor grateful, and he is definitely the sort of person to mock the guy whose father he killed and sister drove to suicide. Absolutely. My favorite character in all of literature.
What are we all reading at this very moment?
This book is pure joy. A nice break from all the depressing books I read.
Have that sitting on my shelf. Picked it up from the "take a book, leave a book" shelf from university. I'm sick of depressing stuff too atm and need a break. Reading the Book of Disquiet and got done with Stoner a few weeks ago. Very depressing books. How does it compare to other Bradbury stuff
Reading The Day of the Locust. It's pretty good so far though I have yet to see why it has garnered so much praise. I just finished reading Miss Lonelyhearts which I liked.
About to read some Heraclitus before I start Theaetetus. I'll read a bit of Parmenides and Protogoras before Theaetetus also.
What book is really popular on /lit/, while the average reading enthusiast has probably never heard of it and would quite likely not even appreciate it as much as someone on here would?
The /mu/ song is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
The /fit/ program is Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe.
So what's the /lit/ book?
The cat in the hat
>>7473900
The Recognitions.
"Obscure but still read by non-/lit/ hipsters" level is Infinite Jest by DFW
"Meme tier incomprehensible horseshit no one actually reads" is Finnegans Wake by Joyce, or maybe Lacan's Ecrits
Maybe Ulysses by Joyce? Still ball-breakingly hard and obsessed over by lit scholars but not really read widely. But it's still pretty famous lit so you'll still see overmakuped chubby loud chicks on Booktube channels saying it was their fav of the week.
If you want something more representative of /lit/ though it'd either be IJ or FW. FW because of /lit/'s tendency to deify anything incomprehensible (everyone here wants to read it, or Derrida/Lacan). IJ because everyone here is a hipster.
Any Feyerabend fans around these parts? I never really see philosophy of science addressed here. What do you guys think of Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos?
To be totally honest I find Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism to be the most honest brand of philosophy. I see him as basically continuing a line of thinking from classical skepticism (Pyrrho via Sextus Empiricus), reawakened in Montaigne, on to Hume from which it entered contemporary phil but was lost with Kant and all the Hegelian nonsense that followed.
>>7473802
>separating science and school
I don't think you'd like what the end-result of that would be.
>>7473838
no no, it's fine, school is worthless anyway. we may as well see how deep it can go.
>>7473842
>school is worthless anyway
Uhhhh, are you trying to say that modern education systems are broken? Because the concept of teaching our youth is not worthless at all, just the modern systems at work
What is it that makes /lit/ special? Honestly most of the time I can't stand you people, yet I'm admittedly addicted to this board. Why is that? Almost every time I come on here I'll find something I didn't know about before and spend hours on Wikipedia. I think it's because the rampant pretentiousness(I'm pretty sure most of it is just being ironically so, right?) present on /lit/ combined with the anonymity allows us to let our guard down while at the same time discussing obscure and "high-brow" stuff that is otherwise ignored on other sites (Reddit). The result is an interesting, albeit sometimes nauseous, insight into literary works. What do you guys think?
>>7473614
the sensibilities imparted by studying literature are the same that contribute to dankness in memes. and if those memes take literature as their subject, all the more so.
>>7473626
the ironic detachment of the 4chan pathos is very close to the attitude of a literary critic, I'd say
I would prefer to be young no nothing at /lit/ You'd learn so much. Don Dellilo once said something like he writes to figure out what he knows. That's me commenting here sometimes.
I am looking for books that are written in a condescending tone. Please share if you know of any.
the bible
>>7473479
topkek
Lolita, though, for real
>>7473479
>the bible
I'll consider this, but how about something with a known author?
Reviving this thread since the last one did so well.
Post an image that moves you and other anons suggest a book.
>>7473466
Lord Valentine's Castle, by Robert Silverberg
>>7473466
>>7473475
The Name of the Wind
Whats wrong with audiobooks /lit/? It cant be more comforting t b h
one feature of the medium of written text is that the reader is capable of spontaneously pausing, slowing down, speeding up, going back to re-read a sentence or section, etc.
that might seem trivial at first but I think it is a huge part of the experience of reading, and it's not something you can do with an audio book.
Nothing, just /lit/ generally needing to hate things.
Audiobooks allow me to get about 3 times as much reading done as I'd be able to do otherwise, and some books work better out loud. Some work worse, but certainly not a majority.
As guy above me said, books where you get a lot out of referring back to something earlier are the ones that suffer, but in my experience a good amount of my backtracking turns out to be pointless OCD anyway, for fiction at least.
>>7473356
can't pause, slow down, speed up, or go back?
Does doing something or traveling somewhere with the intention of later writing about the experience make the experience itself, and thus whatever you later write about it, insincere? If so, does acknowledging that conundrum in the writing offset the insincerity or does it just put you into wibbly wobbly oscillation zone?
tl;drdoes the ride ever end?
>>7473218
>Does doing something or traveling somewhere with the intention of later writing about the experience make the experience itself, and thus whatever you later write about it, insincere?
Yes.
/Thread
>>7473235
Maybe.
/Thread
Cultivating any experience with the intention of mining for words is, at its heart, insincere. The only thing that matters, though, is the final product.
>>7473218
Depends on what you mean by sincerity, OP. I will say that once you step outside yourself and observe things from another perspective (i.e. 'I'm going to write about this later,' but also even just 'I'm going to remember this later') changes how you experience something initially.
Maybe it's inauthentic authenticity (you know, the old Capote canard about being a 'real fake' and all that).