is there such a thing as "/lit/core"? a la /mu/core?

>>8967799
we call it the western canon in the biz

there is but it's generally books that are widely praised

not sure why music has the problem that the most well-regarded music (shitty dadrock and dadhip-hop) isn't the most artistically significant

READ THE FUCKING STICKY.

I wondered about this. I am reading a blog atm (page 90 of 1055) and once I finish it will be looking for this kind of list. Most people on here seem to just say 'The Greeks'.

>>8967828
What kind of blog? Link?

/lit/core is the Western Canon

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/literature/bloom/complete.html
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/harold-bloom-creates-a-massive-list-of-works-in-the-western-canon.html

Jesus christ what the fuck is up with all these newfags

>>8967898
On my phone. God damn autocorrects Book to Blog, Countenance to found distance and other annoying shit.

>>8967991
Most probably a combination of the season limiting outdoor pursuits, new year resolutions and students who got bad grades at the end of the last semester.

>>8967816
The situation is actually very similar. You have a canon of highly regarded older works (the western canon / classical music) which have great symbolic value but few people actually read/listen to them (everyone knows the opening of Beethoven's 5th and the "To be or not to be" verse from Hamlet, but how many have actually listened/read those works completely?), the newest, most popular garbage (Fault in our stars and whoever is Justin Biber of today), and a bridge between the two that isn't devoid of artistic value and is popular so consuming such art even with little understanding of theory makes you look cultured (dadrock and mucore, Tolkien and Orwell...).
Your perception of what is popular and highly regarded is skewed. Currently, the most widely praised works are generally very bad, no matter the art form.

>>8967799
/lit/core: Joyce, David Foster Wallace, Pynchon, Dostoevsky, Homer, Nabokov, uhh just off the top of my head.

>>8968957
Shakespeare is actually pretty popular, at least among the educated. It would be as if everyone liked a Bach composition that they had studied in school.