/lit/ - Literature

>Read Ortega y Gasset
>Turns out to be written by just one of em

>>9905412
>in literary studies you have Barthes, the man that murdered the Author...

You lost all credibility here

>>9840983

>>9811999
>Normies know more about negative emotions than someone who has withdrawn from all adult challenges.

>>9724598

>avoiding Jewish professors
>especially in English Lit

Never gonna fucking make it.

>>9669607
>For boredom
>Exceeding the general knowledge imprinted from the media, who don't know a thing in the end besides "how 2 journalism"
>See how wrong the "plebs" (politicans) are
>Supporting your own interests

In the end it may or may not help you with anything. It's a escape to hypnogogia-state of mind to go with your own thoughts. After a while you see that you don't have that much in hands, just written words, memes of one sort, and concluded and crystallized mumbling of authors' thoughts and researches.

Cognitive complexity is a possible output. Seeing from multiple perspectives. Overdo it and you have the perspectives and views of light from most directions but not your own or something to converge them to.

It's hobby of words and games of language like every other situational arena of play. Do or don't. Especially for antisocialites or these self-identified "introverts" the books are the place where you get the external stories and analogies you need for communication with others. Ofen they are misused and covered lies that people seem to use, but there are no fact-checkers in ordinary life.

why do you niggers have to ruin everything remotely good

>>9664564
/fitlit/, the consolidation of meathead and pseud. The ultimate sophist.

>>9540418
>as your shadow
>your anima
>dream phase
>dark side
>overlords

Fucking tripe

I've been flirting with Moby Dick and Anna Karenina for the past couple days. Which one should i commit to?

Is Bloom's "Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human" worth reading? I love Shakespeare for reference

>>9501292
Hey buddy, you're putting the cart in front of the horse. Don't even think about publishing until you actually have written something.

>>9500571

>That's why we study literature. To find valuable works.

>>9492496
>you read that in a book and have no idea what that really means in a practical sense.

Give me a moment to take that sentence in

>>9399661
>apple laptop

>>9376556

>So I was all set to go, and then I read a claim that Goethe defended pederasty.
>He hasn't yet swallowed the most patrician pill

>>9376977
>plan on bloomposting for an hour
>accidentally read 1000 pages instead
Feeling resentful right now.

Anyone have any advice for including acknowledgements in a 10,000 word undergraduate dissertation?

I'm doing an English Literature course and it was mentioned in a lecture that we can include acknowledgements e.g. 'thanks to my supervisor' etc., but I'm not really sure if it's standard practice or if it would look out of place and somewhat pretentious.

I don't want to not include an acknowledgement to my supervisor and them think I'm ungrateful, but equally, if my paper gets a shit mark it looks kind of retarded having acknowledged someone as though you've toiled over a masterpiece.

What do?

>>9356531
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>>9284897
>anything written to serve a political purpose is propaganda not art

>"Stunning." - John Green

>>9260471
So you're going to show your parents off for being narcissists by trying to out narcissist them

>>9190003
>Defends Christianity

It shows how cancerous New Atheism is that a philosophic reading of the Bible now counts as a "Defense"

>reading a book to get the most basic bitch prime time fox news rhetoric

For what purpose