/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16157065]

If you want to pretend to be well-read, just look up Harvard's curriculum and reading materials for its Literature Bachelors programme.

[Anonymous No.16157078]

>>16157065
>reading materials for its Literature Bachelors programme
Just post the list cunt

[Anonymous No.16157086]

>>16157065
This girl reads nothing but boring pop drama-movie literature. I get she's cute but listening to her is aggravating and I never get anything she's saying since it's all word salad.

[Anonymous No.16157099]

>>16157086
I've only ever watched ~30 seconds of one of her videos. Not sure why /lit/ seems to be so enamoured with her. Are you all really so starved of women in your life?

[Anonymous No.16157210]

Who dis?

[Anonymous No.16157244]

>>16157210
Butterfly.

[Anonymous No.16157258]

>>16157099
>Are you all really so starved of women in your life?
What do the worse /a/utists do? Follow some eceleb. Same with /v/, /tv/, /mu/, etc.
It only makes sense for the zoomers of /lit/ too look the equivalent, so they care about booktubers and The Book Club and other useless trash. Seems like raising kids on tablets and YouTube videos is not very healthy.

[Anonymous No.16157315]

>>16157258
>Follow some eceleb
Except with /a/ those threads get deleted usually instantly banned, so you never see them, so its not something you even have to think about. The worst someone on /a/ usually does is spam an anime that /a/ hates.

[Anonymous No.16157318]

>>16157099
>Are you all really so starved of women in your life?
Yes, they are.

[Anonymous No.16157331]

>>16157244
Is she a booktuber?

[Anonymous No.16157345]

I went to their department of english website and it’s all black lives matter shit, so am I suppose to read anything pertaining to that?

[Anonymous No.16158801]

>>16157065
it's true, if all you want is to pretend to be well-read, you should copy the masters. not charts on /lit/ (christ)

[Anonymous No.16158805]

>>16157345
to pretend to be well-read it goes without saying you should pretend to be an adjusted, well-informed 21st c person

[Anonymous No.16158866]

>>16157065
You mean "queer negro feminist themes in The Great Gatsby". I'll pass, thanks.

[Anonymous No.16158886]

>>16157065
I don't go to book school, I go to books

[Anonymous No.16158992]

>>16157065
I bet I could shit on half of hardvard's students

[Anonymous No.16158995]

FUCK MODERN WOMEN!!!

[Anonymous No.16159003]

>>16158992
that's impressive

[Anonymous No.16159117]

>>16157099
>Are you all really so starved of women in your life?
I am but I do not watch her videos

[Anonymous No.16159133]

went looking for the list since none of you e-girl obsessed faggots posted it.
instead i found the director of said program, and now i know i dont need the list.

[Anonymous No.16159146]

>>16157065
Where do I find the list? I’m curious to see how much of it I’ve already read.

[Anonymous No.16159170]

You fucking losers could have at least picked someone attractive to obsess over, Jesus. The absolute state of this board.

[Anonymous No.16159243]

>>16159133
>Stephanie (also Steph; formerly Stephen) Burt

[Anonymous No.16159270]

>>16157099
Yes

[Anonymous No.16159307]

>>16159170
Ontologicool doesn't post anymore tho

[Anonymous No.16159480]

>>16159307
ontologicool isn't that attractive either, she just looks like a lustful whore

[Anonymous No.16159545]

>>16159480
aphrodite wasn't that attractive but paris still picked her

[Anonymous No.16159665]

>26 posts in
>nobody has even hinted at the contents of the reading list
>all about some ugly booktuber

why

[Anonymous No.16159668]

>>16159665
I looked and I couldn't find it

[Anonymous No.16159683]

>>16159133
thats not true

[Anonymous No.16159685]

>>16157318
>Yes, they are.

You wrote "they" where you should have written "we."

[Anonymous No.16159698]

>>16159683
str8 off their website

[Anonymous No.16159699]

>>16157065
Columbia University has a Western Civ./Classics program that they force all the general college kids to take for two semesters. It's one of the few places that still does this. I've thought about replicating the course for myself (my GF went to Columbia and still has all the books from the course) but it's a shitload of material and I'm already familiar with a decent portion of it.

[Anonymous No.16159726]

>>16157065
>curriculum and reading materials for its Literature Bachelors programme.

If it's anything like my lit degree, it's not one list or a prescribed set of classes. The Great Books program is a canonical list, but most lit programs aren't like that.

We had to take three out of Chaucer, Shakespeare I, Shakespeare II, or Milton. The other dozen or so classes were just whatever we liked or was available on the schedule.

I took:
Victorian Literature
Romantic LIterature (it's just Coleridge and Wordsworth)
Horror Literature
American Short Stories

You could pick anything and the reading list changed a lot. Harvard may be different, but we didn't read a ton of criticism. We read primary material and discussed it in historical context (so and so was writing this during a plague or war or from prison).

There was very little analysis or criticism that followed any ideological lines -- NTTAWT

Also, you're an uneducated fuck. Stop pretending.

[Anonymous No.16159734]

>>16158886
>I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.“

[Anonymous No.16159770]

>>16159668
You can see the available classes and instructors, but the reading list is behind a paywall:

https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/75386

[Anonymous No.16159811]

Who tf even is this girl in the picture?

and why should I care about Harvard’s literature reading list when Harold Bloom’s Western Canon and Great Books of the Western World are infinitely superior reading lists?

[Anonymous No.16159841]

>>16159545
nigga she is the literal embodiment of love STFU

[Anonymous No.16159863]

>>16159307
She seems absolutely insufferable.

[Anonymous No.16159873]

the only comparable thing i could find could find online was oxford's english first year

https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/english-reading-list

it's really not that crazy
>beowulf
>great expectations
>wuthering heights
>dubliners
>to the lighthouse
>etc.

i expect you'd naturally tick most of the undergrad reading list off just working through the bloom's canon, like other anon said. i imagine it's really much more about being in the class environment but unis like this are usually pretty good about uploading entire lecture series.

[Anonymous No.16159914]

>>16157331
Paperbackdreams

[Anonymous No.16159958]

>>16159841
wow i did not know that
yeah mate i know she was but she was said to be less attractive than hera, paris chose her for the sexual element

[Anonymous No.16160213]

>>16157065
My friend has an English degree from Harvard and still asks me for book recommendations. Apparently they just read essays and very short excerpts, mostly from contemporary work. Half of his classes were complete memes.
I'm reading fucking Lucky Jim and he still talks about how my taste is "much more literary" than what the rest of his rich cunt friends waste their time on. Harvard English students are the kind of people praising Ducks Newburyport and spending all day on twitter.

[Anonymous No.16160248]

>>16160213
Yeah, you don't really read entire books. First year English all we did was read excerpts from Shakespeare and Chaucer etc.

[Anonymous No.16160275]

>>16159873
Is it just me or can any other anon's just not relate at all to womens writing? I've read both wuthering heights and pride and prejudice. There was no deep message in either of them, the writing is almost entirely surface level, the characters are just awful people, and everything ends the same way with the women getting whatever asshat they had set their sights on

[Anonymous No.16160432]

>>16160213
citation needed

[Anonymous No.16160464]

>>16159914
Yikes! Looks like there is quite a lot to unpack here, folks!

[Anonymous No.16160468]

>>16160213
>Apparently they just read essays and very short excerpts
lol just like philo students
school is a joke, you basically pay $250,000 to get laid and access to drug dealers

[Anonymous No.16160539]

>>16160468
are american university courses entirely different to uk or are you lot making stuff up
don't believe that english undergraduates wouldn't do much reading & esp that they'd do mostly contemp.

[Anonymous No.16160552]

>>16159873
>>16159683
>>16159668
>>16159665
>>16159146
you absolute mouth breathing retards

[Anonymous No.16160554]

>>16157086
She's not even cute. Her eyes are below average.

[Anonymous No.16160560]

>>16160552
1) reposting the same image i posted
2) not posting the list
you added nothing. consider suicide since your while life is probably in this same pattern.

>>16160539
Uh idk your foreign routines. In the USA, uni students are not reading entire books.

[Anonymous No.16160576]

>>16160560
>In the USA, uni students are not reading entire books.
literally don't believe you (literally used in literal sense)

[Anonymous No.16160583]

>>16157078
fpbp

[Anonymous No.16160603]

>>16160583
>>16160560
>>16157078
>>16159665
>>16160552
how many so and so to change a lightbulb

http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~eng112/readinglists.htm

[Anonymous No.16160618]

>>16160576
The Ivies are yuppy factories. They don't even really pretend to be doing much educating anymore. Anybody who can get in graduates with at least a 3.7 GPA and gets one of their friend's dads to hand them a job in consulting.

[Anonymous No.16160634]

>>16160275
Imagine getting filtered this bad by a woman

[Anonymous No.16160666]

>>16160618
well that's what lots of people outside the literary/scholastic world or on its fringes imagine the case to be in england
but it's not (and could not be)

[Anonymous No.16160703]

>>16160666
The burger caste system has never been as resilient as the English one because we all have to pretend ours doesn't exist. Education is too noticeable of a demarcation, so it's passé here now.

[Anonymous No.16160708]

>>16160666
but he never mentioned england, he was talking about Burgerland, and when talking about Burgerland he is absolutely correct. A friend of a friend going to an Ivy League school told me he had literally not read a book since middle school and, after speaking to him for an entire party, I believed him.
And yes, he was already making six figures working at his father's accounting firm.

[Anonymous No.16160719]

>>16160275
I'm a man and Persuasion by Jane Austen is one of the best books I've read. So it may just be you.

[Anonymous No.16160740]

>>16159734
Kek

[Anonymous No.16160746]

>>16160708
i'm making the international comparison of people who don't have a clue.

id est
i reckon you're lying

[Anonymous No.16160779]

>>16160746
Yeah man, I guess nobody on earth really has a clue except for you.

[Anonymous No.16160788]

>>16160779
oh right you're speaking on behalf of everyone on earth eh
you know even even a (say) assistant mananger working at (say) his dad's (say) multination accounting firm wouldn't make six figures

[Anonymous No.16160802]

>>16160708
Why would you expect a STEM major to read books? He was probably assigned some and could've taken liberal arts electives but was able to get away with not doing it. No college is actively trying to fail their students and will give you the benefit of the doubt when possible on assignments.

[Anonymous No.16160815]

God she's so cute and gracious, I want to cuddle and hug her and be her lover and listen to her talk about books everyday

[Anonymous No.16160823]

imagine seeing her get blacked

[Anonymous No.16160848]

>>16160823
never really understood that one myself

[Anonymous No.16160859]

>>16160802
You don't know anybody graduating from these schools, do you? They get their degrees in things like English, journalism, or religious studies, then they're upper management at accounting and consulting firms telling state school STEMlords to work harder and dumb down their presentations if they want to live in Manhattan, or they're "idea guys" for "startups" if they'd prefer San Francisco.
You don't sound like you have any idea how bad it is or how hard you've fallen for deep-seated generation-spanning marketing.

[Anonymous No.16160860]

>>16157065
Reported for being off-topic.

If you wanna talk youtubers, go to /b/ (/random/).

[Anonymous No.16160879]

>>16160275
it's normal anon, women can't really write anything decent but some anons will gobble down shit and ask for more as long as it's part of the canon

>>16160823
>he needs to imagine

[Anonymous No.16160895]

>>16160860
what if I wanna fuck booktubers?

[Anonymous No.16160907]

>>16160802
You really, genuinely don't understand how deep the rot goes if you think the guys posting about it ITT are exaggerating in the least.

[Anonymous No.16160967]

>>16160895
Go to their home / dark alley near their local metro station / workplace.

But don't come here. This board is for literature.

[Anonymous No.16160970]

>>16159665
>ugly
filtered

[Anonymous No.16160981]

>>16160967
what if I want to make sweet and reciprocated love to them?

[Anonymous No.16161026]

anyone have the list? i have normalfags i have to interact with.

[Anonymous No.16161070]

>>16160907
>really, genuinely
mad

[Anonymous No.16161110]

>>16157086
she's a girl, what else do you expect? at least she's cute and pushes people to read more

[Anonymous No.16161126]

>>16160634
>Wow you don't want shit stuffed down your throat? filtered

[Anonymous No.16161133]

>>16160560
>In the USA, uni students are not reading entire books.
holy shit, boldly wrong. what put this bizarre notion in your head.

[Anonymous No.16161156]

>>16160275
>read Ayn Rand
>strong female lead gets raped
>she wanted it
Makes you think.

[Anonymous No.16161182]

>>16157086
yeah fairplay they're q good books, is she supposed to be into archive.org books w philosophically ambivalent & trite stories? dont think so

[Anonymous No.16161194]

>>16161156
mad bint

[Anonymous No.16161209]

>>16161182
try a better bait next time

[Anonymous No.16161211]

>>16161133
>"holy shit" canned response .txt
>offers no competing anecdote
timid chord absolutely Struck and Noted.

[Anonymous No.16161240]

>>16161133
being a uni student america. why are some people ITT really surprised that the country with the dumbest intelligentsia also has flawed higher education?

[Anonymous No.16161284]

>>16161211
>anecdote
no yeah i'm sure he meant to say his friend got into harvard by a word dropped in the right quarter and he met someone at a party who got his ACA at deloitte through a nod from his chairperson uncle-in-law

[Anonymous No.16161317]

>>16157065

woah you're just making a thread from what I suggested

how does one attend class in this day and age

nitwit namedropping summary searching pseud what is a paradox

[Anonymous No.16161345]

>>16161284
Are you trying to imply that this isn't exactly what fucking happens?

[Anonymous No.16161563]

>>16161211
i go to a shitty college on the east coast and in the english undergrad program you are probably going to be reading 3-4 books per class, give or take 1 depending on the professor. these are all non-100 levels, btw. there's your anecdote, faggot

[Anonymous No.16161633]

>>16160859
I went to a boarding school in Massachusetts and know dozens of graduates of Ivy League schools, including my brother. I went to a top-50 private university and know folks working at Citi, Goldman, and other major banks in New York and Boston. Also your post has almost no relation to my argument, which is that STEM majors don't usually read books. This goes for pre-med, engineering, accounting, finance, etc.

As to your point, I really think you're describing the situation in the mid-20th century. Nowadays corporate banking and finance are specialized enough that they almost exclusively pull from econ, finance, math, and physics majors. A liberal arts degree can get you a nice spot at a consulting firm if you network right, but it's not like the smart kid with a math degree isn't getting compensated for his effort. Entry level quant work at a major bank is plenty lucrative.

>>16160907
Again this has nothing to do with my point. I knew a poly sci major at Harvard who became editor of the Crimson who was assigned 200+ pages a night. I imagine he didn't always do all of the readings but it's not like Harvard failed to educate him or provided a free ticket to a consulting firm. This is not to say there aren't some obvious flaws with the Ivy League that make it idiotic to go (overpriced, pay-to-play admissions for white kids, obvious preference for minorities regardless of academic performance, etc.).

[Anonymous No.16161914]

>>16161633
>STEM majors don't usually read books
While there's usually nothing in their curriculum about reading literature (I'm an undergrad EE, and for the gen ed humanities/English portion the common courses either involve excerpts or very brief ancient works, some of the options deal with full texts and some of them don't involve any literary works), STEM students actually need most of their textbooks and use them in a far more intimate way than non-STEM majors.

[Anonymous No.16161924]

>>16157086
her sister is cuter

[Anonymous No.16162002]

>>16161914
textbooks arent books

[Anonymous No.16162007]

>>16157065
This pic screams to me "I'm ugly but I have huge milkies".

[Anonymous No.16162088]

>>16162002
Which is what I said. STEM majors don't read literary works, but they rely heavily on technical texts. So while they don't do much book reading, they do a great deal of technical reading. In most majors textbooks are just glorified curriculum manuals, the same as those found in secondary education, but in engineering most of the textbooks I'm assigned by professors are books they've used as references for their careers, and engineering students frequently keep their books for reference. My point is that while STEM majors, and by extension alumni, might not read many books in the traditional sense, they stay well-read by frequently consulting technical manuals. A doctor might not read many books, but they retain high literacy because they have to consult reference books and keep abreast of developments by reading journals. Same goes for other STEM careers.

[Anonymous No.16162105]

>>16161924
her sister is the alpha

[今晚打老虎 No.16162364]

ive been late to the party bois
is this a kat thread?

[Anonymous No.16162376]

>>16161563
Cool contribution, we were actually talking about philosophy not english programs though, surprised your education didn't prepare you to understand that. There's also no need to sign your post

[Anonymous No.16162387]

>>16157065
>>why would I look up a kike curriculum?
ever heard of the western canon you fucking dunce.

[Anonymous No.16162406]

>>16160464
do NPCs really?

[Anonymous No.16162582]

>>16162105
>yo'
absolute degeneracy

[Anonymous No.16163000]

>>16162105
thanks again based lauren poster

[Anonymous No.16163033]

ummmm would /lit/ want a reading list from pic related?

[今晚打老虎 No.16163049]

>>16163000
waste of digits
kat 100% mogs her sister

[Anonymous No.16163093]

>>16163049
filtered hard lmao

[Anonymous No.16163260]

>>16163033
>We think about, study and write about
>harvard.edu

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.16163272]

>>16163260
>amerimutt still thinks harvard means something
Low IQ burger-flipper

[Anonymous No.16163283]

>>16163033
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[Anonymous No.16163379]

Oxford's Literature Programme is a 1000x better than Harvard's.

[Anonymous No.16163466]

>>16162376
>don't believe that english undergraduates wouldn't do much reading & esp that they'd do mostly contemp.
you are a dumb faggot, stop posting on my board you insipid little queer

[Anonymous No.16163631]

>>16159117
Based

[Anonymous No.16163649]

>>16157086
What you described is legit better than 95% of women, who read NOTHING

[Anonymous No.16164220]

>>16159133

This is real. Anon, why is this real? This cannot be real, but yet it is.

[Anonymous No.16164230]

>>16163466
shuttup! Shuttup! Shut-up!

[Anonymous No.16164237]

>>16164230
fool! dipshit! retard! begone!

[Anonymous No.16164252]

what a weirdly annoying thumbnail

[Anonymous No.16164411]

>>16163049
true but not the kat from that time when she looked like a lesbian, every other time she's 1000x cuter then her sister

>>16162007
the opposite, she's cute as a button and has small elegant breasts I'd love to fondle and lick

[Anonymous No.16164414]

>>16162364
you sound like a connoisseur, is there any drama around her?

[Anonymous No.16164421]

>>16157065
>>16160464
Look at that fucking schnozz and her nose piercings!yuck!Even being an ugly woman is enough to amass an army of simps

[Anonymous No.16164424]

>>16157099
>Not sure why /lit/ seems to be so enamoured with her
I'm pretty sure it's one guy spamming threads with her and then maybe one retard joined in

[Anonymous No.16164489]

>>16164424
I was blind but now I see

>>16164421
she's cute and gracious and has the very positive and pleasant vibe of someone in love with life and optimistic about it, she's also still capable of finding innocent wonder in things and having sincere and joyful fun, she also has a healthy passion that she loves to talk about, if all that doesn't make for a great gf I don't know what does

[Anonymous No.16164622]

don't you idiots have anything better to do? LIKE READ!

[Anonymous No.16164684]

>>16164622
Yeah, /lit/
READ MORE

[Anonymous No.16164712]

>>16164622
I do read, but I also watch kat's videos and sometimes think about her when I'm masturbating

[Anonymous No.16164819]

Define well-read and why I should be so, assuming I have a functioning brain and read for enjoyment.

[Anonymous No.16164985]

>>16163649
also 95% men

[Anonymous No.16164989]

>>16164622
shut up

>>16164684
yeah you're right

[Anonymous No.16165000]

>>16157065
I'd could kill Kat with a single strike.

[Anonymous No.16165036]

>>16165000
work on your English first you troglodyte
also, I would never let anyone harm her

[Anonymous No.16165057]

>>16159133
probably way smarter than you.

[Anonymous No.16165271]

>>16165036
troglodyte is such a reddit insult

[Anonymous No.16166554]

[Anonymous No.16166663]

>>16159699
Villanova does this too, granted most of the selected works are Catholic after Christianity emerges

[Anonymous No.16166982]

>>16166554
Kat is dogpilled

[Anonymous No.16167112]

>>16161110
>>16163649
>>16164985
they hated jesus because he spoke the truth

[Anonymous No.16167153]

>>16157065
she's jewish, isn't she?

[Anonymous No.16167445]

>>16158805
>>16157345
get audiobooks of the better known authors and listen to those, read sparknotes on the more obscure ones. memorize authors names and the themes or topics and you're good to go.