/lit/ - Literature

>Shakespeare, even in the sonnets, represents himself as having no personality at all. This self-evasion has augmented the lunatic legions of the Oxfordians, who seem not to care that we have a few indubitable poems by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. These pale lyrics show that the great aristocrat could not write his way out of a paper bag.

>>18366795
Blooms face.
Also all of the tattoos on Blooms face in this image.

>>18294192
Swarthmore College
Brothers K

>>18133798
yeah butters, democracy is far worse than just "voting"

>>17986719
same

>>17800605
>-∞/10 fucking disgusting
hahahahaa

>>17751514
>>17751448

I plan on reading Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, and I want to get into Camille Paglia, although I'm not sure where to start with her. Which of her books do you recommend, /lit/?

Also, I'm looking for other authors who critique the rot that's currently popular in academia; who do you recommend?

>>15766082
Europe doesn't create new culture though

damn son

the sticky here

>tfw too smallbreained for this thread

>>14455394
damn you finna get enlightened readin all dat

>>14320064
>Almost anyone on the canon
Woolf, Austen, and the Bronte sisters are all part of the Western canon.

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

What were the best /lit/ posts of the decade?

Please admit that books are all failed experiments, because books can never have the effect of psychedelic drugs on the mind. All you'll ever be doing is looking at some words on a page and saying "huh, interesting".

>>13992585
F

>>12829321
based

>>12658937
Fuck off already. You don't even care about literature.

>>12555291
I don't even watch Pewdiepie. I just think anything that encourages kids to read the canon is good.

>>12447657
And for the record, what did happen?

The Recognitions is in a different league. The National Book Award for JR was an apology for ignoring Wyatt Gwyon.

>>12171347
JR isn't funnier. I just re-read both.

>>12171359
Can you elaborate?

>>12171389
JR also has less content. Corporation BAD art GOOD, I felt like Bast by the end asking JR to just leave me alone. Maybe that was the joke. Though could have used a lot more JR in the book desu senpai.

>>11595806
What a fucking boomer