/lit/ - Literature

>>1751419
Let me make a revelation. I am a troll, but most of what I wrote, I truly believe in. Never had anything to do with academia. I am a translator, bored to death in a hotel room in Italy. Waugh was a lie, correct answer would be Tintin. Donkey was truthful. Alleged work in progress (cynicism) is my general opinion of european realism and the American Renaissance. I do make about 200.000 a year, probably one of the best paid literary translators in the world.

There, I said it.

>>1751375
I like donkeys. There.

>>1751334
Are you attractive? Attractive professors are best. Also what do you think of Nabokov/Nabokov's criticism if you're going to use that fuckawful p word.

I am reasonably attractive.

Would you fuck your student?

Not this one.

Where did you get your degrees?

Nanterre, then Brown, then secret.

What was your GPA going into grad school?

Can't remember. Superior probably.

What's your favorite pleasure reading?

Waugh.

What is the worst book you've had to read for a class?

Margaret Drabble, The Radiant Way


Do you think women are capable of writing "great literature?"

If they are lesbians and from Allegheny, Pennsylvania, then yes.

Do you have any real hobbies?

Walking leisurely.

>>1751317
So you like bakelite dildos best?

>>1751306
The mirror and the Lamp is, indeed, one of my favorite works of lit. crit., along with some versions of pastoral.

>>1751277
Proust is highly relevant to my work, I assure you.

First of all, I take no moral stance toward cynicism; I see it - with P. Sloterdijk - as a phenomenological fallacy. Cynicism has nothing to do with the way the teenager you seem to be would read Beckett, or Céline, or Gracian for that matter.

>>1751260
Ok, I don't want to get into that. Get a dictionary and some Proust, come back in a few months.

>>1751224
Nihilism you mean.

>>1751224
Not the verification of its epistemology, you dummy

>>1751203
>>1751203
Cynicism is a process insofar as it is a form of knowledge that is grounded in its own verification, and as such can never be taken as a form of metaphysics.

>>1751175
Process meaning that knowledge, ah shit I can't even be bothered to explain such simple stuff. Process acknowledges the the fact that cognition is never completed, that's all.

>>1751156
>>1751165
>>1751166
See? Obviously, there is something to it maybe?

>>1750585

I am a fag.

>>1751125
No friend, I do not believe this was a trap, sadly for you.

>>1751097
Do you know his Nonsense Madrigals? Recently heard them for the first time, just fantastic stuff.

>>1751105
How can you even use the word "progress" if you deny the validity of grand narratives?

>>1750859
exactly

>>1750832
let me rephrase it then: fuck you.

>>1750811
It was the influence of protestant higher criticism on european realism that is changed everything within two decades.

>>1750807
come down, come down. I used to work for BCG, where the pay was ten times as much. Still prefer what I do now.

>>1750792
Undistinguishable, because literary texts stage hermeneutics as the approximation of esthetics, not meaning.

>>1750792
No no, Hayden White has nothing to do with. No emplotment, no "modes" or any such claptrap.

>>1750763
This is a very good salary in my field, mind you.

>>1750752
At the moement I work on the topic of literature and knowledge. My approach focuses on the historical development of cynicism as cognitive process, and on the birth of the naive (candor) as a poetological absolute. If you like, my work claims that poetics and hermeneutics are virtually indistinguishable since the mid 19th century.