/lit/ - Literature

>>8597151
Either is fine, really.

ITT: Great authors /lit/ never discusses

>literary theory class
>Freud section turns into everyone sharing their ~crazy~ dreams and everyone else bullshitting about their meaning

Take it sentence by sentence. Read and reread. It's in English, so you will get it eventually. I don't mean to be rude, but it shouldn't be too difficult.

we birdposting?

>>7103799
Doesn't change the fact that it's hot.

>>7103722'
I think it's hot. You never wanted to bang a pair of twins? What about a gang of twins?

The apparition of these faces in the crowd
Petals on a wet black bough

>>6496728
This is essential.

Also, check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#History_of_dissent_and_truth

>>6475302
Might as well drop "The winter is here" right?

>>6475010
Define "real world."

>>6474637
>You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
>You both like /r9k/.
>Stranger: Hello~ http://z18224.o.ayy-mlao.co/i4eglxom.txt
>You: hello
>You: what is that?
>Stranger: it's a Pokemon feet survey
>Stranger has disconnected.

>>6474395
I don't think there was any irony or cynicism in shitty melodramatic YA to rebel against.

For most people, reading a lot is a prerequisite to writing well.

>How do i learn the mechanics of language and how to use them?
A grammar book.

>How do i get into philosophy and what are some good beginner/intermediate texts?
Literally start with the Greeks.

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>>6474149
If it did, I assume it would just lead to a 404 page.
Also, it's an anonymous image board, so you can just say it's yours.

>>6474136

>>6474141
Not that I know of.

>>6474129
I don't see why a chart like this, if it were done well (i.e. more Shakespeare less shit) would "ruin everything."

Was New Sincerity a failure? Will anyone remember it existed twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now?

To me, great professors make all the difference, and the in-depth knowledge you get on Dante will probably be harder to get than survey knowledge on the Western Tradition.
I would definitely go for the Dante course.

>>6473947
Why are some in red boxes?
Also, why is Hamlet the only Shakespeare play on there?

Here's what Harold Bloom had to say about it:
Yes, I started reading him [Emerson] all day long, every day, and pretty much simultaneously reading Freud. People would look at me with amazement and say, Well, what about Thoreau? He at least counts for something. And I would look back at them in amazement and tell them what indeed was and is true, that Thoreau is deeply derivative of Emerson and very minor compared to him. Emerson is God.

Source: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom