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do you need to study poetry to be a good prose stylist?
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>>9630366
Yes
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>>9630366
To be more specific, you need to have given up on poetry (cause it was too hard) to be a good prose stylist.
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>>9630366
You should at least have a cursory understanding of poetic techniques (assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, meter, line breaks). All these things apply as much to prose as poetry.
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>only one satyr play survived in its entirety
>7 out of 120 Sophocles' plays have survived
>19 out of 95 Euripides' plays have survived
>7 out of 70-90 Aeschylus' plays have survived
>majority of Aristotle's dialogues are gone
>no texts by Pythagoras
>Socrates' version of Aesop's Fables is lost
>majority of Livy's history of Rome (celebrated in its day as being incredible) is gone
>the rest of the Epic Cycle surrounding the Iliad and the Odyssey is missing
>no primary source for Socrates
>pre-Socratics only exist as a quote or two
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Yep it's a bummer
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>many, if not most these may be recovered from the scrolls in Herculaneum's library
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I used to love to read all the time, /lit/. I still do, but there is just so much out there that I don't even know where to start. I don't browse this board much, as I'm a /k/ommando, but I wanted your advice. How do you select your next book? Do you have a certain method of finding the next thing you want to read?
I'd like to get back into reading again like I used to.
Pic pretty much unrelated, just the first picture with a Book that I had on hand.
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Buy a few that interest you and decide when you get them. If you don't even know where to begin, start with the greeks and your country's classics
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The beginning is slow as fuck, does it get better?
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It picks up but Gaiman is just something to read on a Spirit Airlines flight when you only could bring that and a pair of socks.
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thoughts
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good ass tune
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>>9630202
Best theres ever been
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Well the way I see it there are two songs in the world. Ramblin Man by the Allman Brothers...
...and Jessica by the Allman Brothers.
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Can we have book/simpsons image correlation thread? 2017-06-12 11:48:56 Post No.9630026
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Can we have book/simpsons image correlation thread?
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I'll start
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
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i live like lenny
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The Great Gatsby
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who immediately searched for milhouse
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Hi there, /lit/.
I've recently become very interested in the anglophone literature, but as english is not my first language and I'm not as affiliated with the mainly british/irish culture secondly american, I'd like to ask for reccomendations for a history of english literature, that'll give me a comprehensive view of the english literary history.
Thx in advance.
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What was /lit/'s reaction to the fall of the soviet union? I only posted on /f/ and /x/ at the time so I'm unfamiliar with what you guys thought.
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0/10
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thanks for the reply
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>>9629848
>o
im gonna bite my tshirt
IM GONNA BITE MY TSHIRT
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ITT: times that authors BTFO'd other authors in works of fiction. Bonus points if they call the other author out by name.
"Nevertheless, Voltaire said of this city, that 'Before Louis XIV, it possessed but four fine monuments': the dome of the Sorbonne, the Val-de-Grace, the modern Louvre, and I know not what the fourth was the Luxembourg, perhaps. Fortunately, Voltaire was the author of 'Candide' in spite this, and in spite of this, among all the men who have followed each other in the long series of humanity, the one who has best possessed the diabolical laugh. Moreover, this proves that one can be a fine genius, and yet understand nothing of an art to which one does not belong."
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Voltaire is such a cuck, my Mom always tries to get me to read Candide but I just say "fuck you Mom, I wish I could trade you in for Dad" and go back to marking fallacies in my copy of The Prince.
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I want to read 'The Magus' by John Fowles but I've discovered that I downloaded the revised edition. In his preface the author says that he made certain scenes more erotic and that he made the ending less ambiguous - neither of these changes sound very appealing to me.
Is there a significant difference between the original and revised edition to warrant downloading the original? How was the revised edition received by critics?
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From what I understand the revised version makes the ending clearer and the sex scenes are more explicit. Pretty minor changes.
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I am having a hard time understanding Schelling. What should I read in order to make this experience not as nonsensical as it currently is? Is there any overview of his philosophy that will systematically show the flow of his arguments?
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Kant, Fichte, Hegel, etc.
Also just become a Christian and all will be revealed. Seriously, Schelling was shilling hard for that sweet sweet state religion money.
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if you can read german: gerhard plumpe - ästhetische kommunikation vol 1
devotes a chapter to schelling and "maps" his worldview with the help of systems theory paradigm. the whole volume is devoted to important idealists.
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Where do I start with existentialism? What are some essential books? What are your favorites?
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Anywhere, it doesn't matter.
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What are some examples of literature that is life-affirming?
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Mein Kampf
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go stand in the sun awhile
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Zombies, sci-fi, now pirates
What books to reveal how trend machine works?
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http://Inscriptedblog.wordpress.com/blog
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before I click.
Is this yours? or are you bullying?
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Nobody gives a shit about your poetry. If you want to advertise, pay for a banner.