What are the levels of understanding a work of literature? I'll

caring most about 'quality of prose' is close to bottom tier.
i think understanding its relevance to your own life and its capacity to engage with you and alter your ways of thinking/acting/being/feeling are top tier.

>>8364257
Why wouldn't you read Eckhart Tolle or cookbooks forever instead of tryna get something applicable to your life from Homer, you dumb pleb

>>8364253
1. Plot
2. Conceptual aims
3. Place in the Conversation

>>8364263
you are the true pleb, friend.

>>8364270
no you

>>8364263
Trying to get something applicable to our lives from people who lived 2000+ years before us is exactly the main reason why people are reading and studying them.

As I said in another thread

pleb:
>reading for the plot

normal:
>reading for the characters

pseudo-patrician:
>reading for the prose

patrician:
>reading for the themes

genuinely insightful readers:
>realizing that all of the above have an important part working together to create a enjoyable, beautiful, and thought provoking work of literature

>>8364305
How so

>>8364321
I read for my love of the English language.
:^)

>>8364321

This is true.

>>8364321
Spot on

>>8364350

This desu

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>>8364253
Anyone else think Nabokov looks like Heidegger?

>>8364253
1. Pleb:
The work as something to be consumed for some extrinsic purpose: enjoyment, distraction, desire to be conversant with some facet of culture

2. Normalshit:
The work as object of critique, as part of an art form with standards intended to produce something of quality, create an aesthetic experience, or convey an idea

3. Patrish:
The work as piece of the fabric of reality and a transformative extension of that reality

>>8364257
found the pleb

>>8364457
This but unironically

>>8364321

Include me in the screencap