/lit/ - Literature

>>2903542
pretentious* bitch :p

sorry, not related but can someone plz explain to me what is up with the creepy albino dude in OP's pic? he's obviously a meme but I don't understand where it came from or what it's supposed to mean lol.

Here you go OP, Idk if you've seen it but if not then you should find it interesting.

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/12/05/document-the-symbolism-survey/

OMG I read such a great article on that....will try to find it for OP.

But personally, I believe while it does vary from author to author, readers will almost always find more symbolism in a story than was consciously put into it, for the simple reason that they spend so much time looking for it.

I've read them. But I'm not sure what you're getting at--discrimination towards the classics? I haven't noticed it, and desegregation is kind of old news :p what does it have to do with what you're reading in school?

>>2902197
maybe she works with smart people or something. derp. and maybe you are in 8th grade?

>>2902080
I can't believe this garbage. I know this is a troll thread and it's really funny at first, but every time I actually see what this bitch has written and consider how popular it is, I want to throw up. I've literally seen better writing from 14 year olds.

>>2902061
ouuuch, critical hit XD

>>2902025
yeah I basically agree with this guy. It was interesting about what OP said about sex as exploration, but I read a sex scene from the book and all it explored was how fucking terribly you can write and still sell books.

I read a few pages of it because I was curious. It's just a lot of very bad, semi-graphic pornography.

Now I did not read the whole trilogy mind you. But from what I've read, I can't understand why anyone with good taste would want to. The scene I read was something that any 5th grader could have written and I just have a feeling that the rest of the book didn't rise above that.

>>2903269
Forgot the 'why' bit.
It's an epic on the scale of the Iliad, with hundreds of memorable characters and dramatic scenes. There's no allegory here; it's not a pretentious read or one that will challenge anyone intellectually. It's decidedly a "commoner's" read, literally and figuratively, but that's what makes it so enjoyable and refreshing, esp. if you have had to take modern lit classes.

It's a true romance, about a chaotic time that transcended the banal aspects of human existence and saw heroes and villains at their best.

>>2881678
I like Dostoevsky a lot, but maybe he is relatively more overrated than Jane Austen. His works are still better quality though.

Most of the reason I hated P&P was because it was not read of mine own free will and I just found it too frivolous to be interesting. It's like Howard's End without the profundity.

>>2881678
lol sorry I can't ever put that book down too many times

I think you are wording it wrong, because I don't think that the quotation you're referring to originally was putting down Freud. I think it predates him and was later adopted to fit him, and lots of other people (The problem with [alleged pseudo-intellectual here] was that....)

Unfortunately I don't know who the quote was originally dissing :( maybe Shakespeare? I think maybe Shaw said it about Shakespeare or something like that.

>>2881655
Pride and Prejudice?

>>2881440
Lord of the Flies is good parable, but I thought it to be just an average story. I couldn't stand having to read Of Mice and Men >.<; it bored me to tears.

>>2878998
I'm sorry, this is just bs. I am sorry for you that you can't consider large novels as a whole, but after pointing out your handicap, you can't go on to say that the best novel ever was In search of lost time. Just no.

>>2878995
Novels are different from short stories and poetry, but you're going a little far in calling them shit by comparison. They're just different.

>>2878501
James was a good author; nothing he wrote comes close to Proust in terms of Pathos.

>>2881533
well played, well played.

Not it's fine, you are not required to read anything else by Melville XD Moby Dick was one of a kind and would be a close candidate for me as well.

Besides it, I'd also throw in Herzog and the Satanic Verses as possibilities. I know many would disagree, but that's just my perspective obviously.

the Great Gatsby

Penn State, polysci and I typically read things that are important in order to memorize them. The important parts are pretty self-explanatory, at least for my major. In the lit class I'm taking, we're really not required to memorize anything.

>>2881468
what's it about?