Dickens and George Eliot.
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Dickens and George Eliot.
I've always found that Truth, capitalized, is found in any piece of art. She may have been in her 60s at the time, but he painted her as he felt and digested her essence. Why is that not true?
Marlow from Heart of Darkness
Can't believe no one has suggested Marx. Every young person needs a Marxism stage.
Hard Times is a good one to start with.
I've read all of Dostoevsky that is fictional, all of Kafka (including letters, had to read them for a paper I was writing last semester), most of Shakespeare, especially since I transferred schools...
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What weaknesses can we say these writers have? Anyone who's read any of them knows how important stream of consciousness is to their styles. In my opinion, Joyce comes closest to formal perfection....
Considering that China basically owns the US in debt we owe, I'd say China has surpassed us.
@MortalTerror Yes the famine was manmade, but it was because of poor management by officials below Mao. The extent to which Mao knew of the famine is disputed, and sources for both sides of the coin...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Derrida_main.jpg
Derrida, more a philosopher but an interesting one with quite a bit of weight in the world of literary theory.
Whether Mao was really responsible for those deaths is arguable anyway, though I don't want to get into politics in a thread like this. Either way, he was probably speaking of Hitler's terrible prose...
Well, Proust was definitely a modernist like Joyce and Faulkner. I think he's pretty comparable, actually, and each writer sort of represents a different use of stream of consciousness and innovation...
I've always loved the way authors look. Don't know what it is, but something about knowing how the man or woman appeared while reading their book is important to me. To kickstart this thread, I leave...
Joyce is without a doubt the greatest artist of the 20th century. (Said that expecting things to be flung at me from across the proverbial room). Nothing, for me, will ever compare to the feeling I...
Off topic but that's quite an impressive library you have there. I'm in the same boat as you, though I don't have as many books as you:
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Bukowski's a hack.
So anyway...Milton or Dante? haha
And then there was Kafka who ordered his work to be burned. Not everyone is so confident.
And he considered Pound his "miglior fabbro." I would certainly think that he felt the same of Dante...
Each segment of The Sound and the Fury utilizes a different point-of-view; each has absolutely astounding implications on the narrative.
The first is narrated by someone mentally challenged and...
Wishing I was back in school. I feel happier when I'm being productive and I'm excited for my courses next semester.
Eliot's Wasteland is one of my favorite poems, and its complexity certainly adds to that. But to say that it requires more scrutiny than The Inferno (if that is what you're saying, hanzklein) isn't...
Historicism, New Historicism, or maybe even Marxist literary theory.
I've never heard of ecocriticism. Is there such a thing?
The human condition doesn't mean the suffering of peasants. This isn't a difficult concept. Art has to have a meaning that can be found universally, and displays some sort of truth about humanity. Da...