/lit/ - Literature

>>16638507
i read that as a kid, it was a lot of fun
when i have kids i'll give it to them, because i have the whole series as hardcovers

>>16638193
i should look into that
i have a year left of my undergrad, after that i think i'll apply directly to a phd
not gonna make any money really obviously, but i don't need much to live
>>16638209
sagadb is good, sometimes i also use heimskringla for the texts
i obviously prefer hard copies though

>>16638139
i'm hoping i meet more people who're into this once i go for a phd in germanic philology specifically rather than german linguistics in general
rn the only people i know who i talk about this stuff with are my professors

>>16634565
Heaney is the one that most classes use now I think

>>16636902
post modernism (for the most part, there's some ideas that are interesting)

>>16631317
why the long face?

>>16637482
based Brennu Njáls Saga reader
i keep posting about germanic philology and the icelandic sagas to try and get other people into the subject because i feel like i'm the only person who knows them sometimes

>>15852971
be like me and take hormones but just be basically a gay man who looks like a woman
everyone agrees, trans shit is annoying and really just political at this point

who cares harry potter sucks and tranny shit is annoying

>>15851578
can someone explain who this man is

>>15849227
>>>/lgbt/

>>15846843
top 100 nationally but not world wide
it's a really nice library i like spending time there
>>15846884
i stole some books in high school because i'd give them a better home than the school library but university is a different deal

>>15849837
no

>>15843399

>>15832235
i'd read to them nightly, make sure they're always able to get whatever books they want, limit access to the internet,
>>15832315
>>15832404
this is what my mom did with me
>>15832310
based
i remember when i was a kid i always liked mythology and stuff, i read pretty much every mythology book in my school library
>>15833199
based

>>15834442
i plan on learning hebrew but because i'm not really religiously jewish i'll focus mainly on modern hebrew
>>15834584
you have to remember the historical context of it though
don't read it from the modern perspective

>>15834049
i'm not native i learned it because i'm part jewish and native bilingual english / german

>>15833912
it's a pen name
his real name is Solomon Rabinovich

>>15833790
al Biruni?

>>15829431
乃括城中婦人;既盡,以男夫老小繼之,所食人口二三萬,人心終不離變。

>>15829401
china has 5000 years of history and at least 3000 years of literary history
of course they're better than most other nations
>>15829431
唐朝万岁

>>15831170
anything by Sholem Aleichem
i'm writing this as a yiddish speaker anon, Aleichem is excellent
i've heard good things about Agnon, but idk really because i'm not good at Hebrew (yet)
>>15831403
i really enjoyed Herzel's Altneuland
>>15831462
yiddish is a beautiful language anon
>>15832548
based, but in translation you miss out on the hebrew poetry

>>15808472
yeah i'm looking forward to taking a graduate level class on Levinas with him this semester

>>15808387
of my professor? Richard Cohen. very cool dude, he graded the class based on two tests that he gave out and nothing else.