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  1. Thread: Eternal Life

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    It's less to do with appropriateness and more to...

    It's less to do with appropriateness and more to do with length. How far and how widely can you argue about Eternal Life really? It's an idealistic concept with no empirical basis. Whereas with other...
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    That's exactly my point. It's futile to argue...

    That's exactly my point. It's futile to argue about Eternal Life in philosophic context because any philosophic discussion of an Afterlife essentially ends with the fact that you cannot prove nor...
  3. Thread: Eternal Life

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    Oh yes, how silly of me! All the great modern...

    Oh yes, how silly of me! All the great modern Western philosophers believed in Eternal Life! Hume, Hegel, Heidegger, Russell: they all believed in Eternal Life!

    Wow! How could I be so silly as to...
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    Sorry to ask an awkward question here folks, but...

    Sorry to ask an awkward question here folks, but what exactly has this thread to do with philosophy? Eternal Life is an absurdity in an ontological sense. Empirically I've noticed quite a number of...
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    It's lackadaisical, though, to assume that FW is...

    It's lackadaisical, though, to assume that FW is wilfully obscure to the point that the text is impossible to understand.

    If you get the chance, read Seamus Deane's excellent introduction to FW....
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    No: pride and pedantry of a writer does not make...

    No: pride and pedantry of a writer does not make his/her novel more complex. When you push realism to it's absolute limits, attempting to examine almost every single minute detail in the confusion of...
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    -- Geoffrey Hill

    -- Geoffrey Hill
  8. What you're criticising is Literary Theory, not...

    What you're criticising is Literary Theory, not Literary Criticism.
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    Thank you JBI. Good to see people on this forum...

    Thank you JBI. Good to see people on this forum putting a stop that kind of ideological nonsense.
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    Rabelais and Robert Burton?

    Are Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantegruel & Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy to be added yet? Hmm?
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    That's complete relativistic nonsense, and you...

    That's complete relativistic nonsense, and you know that. The fact that you can't see an author and a narrator as two completely separate entities, and know that the latter is a carefully constructed...
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    You're confusing author and narrator, dangerously...

    You're confusing author and narrator, dangerously I'd say.

    Faulkner created narrators that used racial epithets for the purposes of realism and thematic issues. How could Faulkner discuss racial...
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    You can't be saying that absolutely aesthetic...

    You can't be saying that absolutely aesthetic approach, which quickly descends in idle, ponderous literary shop-talk in nearly all cases, somehow makes an attempt at objective analyses of texts by...
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    Ahem Ideological Theory: Marxism, Feminism,...

    Ahem

    Ideological Theory: Marxism, Feminism, New Historicism
    Linguistic Theory: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism (Deconstruction), Russian Formalism, Stylistics, Narratology.

    Ideological...
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    Tyndale's Influence on the King James Bible

    Can anyone answer a couple of question about the King James Version, that have been nagging me for a while?

    I have always heard conflicting views of William Tyndale's influence on the King James...
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    Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche William H....

    Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche
    William H. Gass
    William Hazlitt
    James Wood - The Broken Estate
    Orwell
    Huxley
    Samuel Johnson
    Woolf
    Eliot
    Christopher Hitchens
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    Eh... she innovated Free indirect speech about 90...

    Eh... she innovated Free indirect speech about 90 years before the modernists, and quite effectively, as many critics and readers would agree.

    That's pretty significant.



    One of the reasons...
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    Beckett's Murphy

    Beckett's Murphy
  19. One word (courtesy of Nabokov): Superessayism

    One word (courtesy of Nabokov): Superessayism
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    Ficciones and then The Aleph

    Ficciones and then The Aleph
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    The point: Love and Family, mostly. The two...

    The point: Love and Family, mostly. The two things that mattered most to Joyce. With Portrait Joyce declared that, as an artist, he needed to remain outside society in order to render it accurately...
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    Oh Lord...

    Sorry to undercut the admittedly schmaltzy plethora of New Age “philosophy” tripe on this thread:





    but let’s try to ground this question of truth a little more.

    Firstly, it’s a bit hard...
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    After 'The Recognitions', Gaddis' style took a...

    After 'The Recognitions', Gaddis' style took a huge turn. 'JR', his second novel, is written almost entirely in dialogue, with only scant identification of the speaker. I've started 'JR' and though...
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    Gass's style is pretty unique. 'The Tunnel' is ...

    Gass's style is pretty unique. 'The Tunnel' is written with a lot of cadence and even when the content is obscure and difficult, the prose is still musical. He has a huge amount of influences...
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    William H. Gass

    Love 'The Tunnel' and his essays are just amazing. Anyone here read 'Omensetter's Luck'? Any good?
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