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My nomination: The Virginian 
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CestMoi posted:I think that's sort of indicative of the problem with actually trying to write a western canon. You have to draw the line somewhwre so you don't end up including literally everything ever made, but anywhere you draw the line is weird and arbitrary and you leave a lot of perfectly fantastic and incredibly important stuff stranded on the other side Bloom's "western canon" is just a more highbrow version of Buzzfeed's 32 Books That Will Change Your Life. At best, it's a useful tool to help someone spot holes in their reading ("Y'know, I probably should actually read Trollope at some point"); at worst it's elitism and pedantry ("Tolkien isn't real literature," says Harold Bloom, after editing two whole volumes of Tolkien criticism.) It's fun to make lists like that and argue about them but ultimately the answer is to read voraciously and always seek out new challenges as a reader. Everything goes into the pot. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Feb 17, 2015 |
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Feb 17, 2015 17:16
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CestMoi posted:That's what I've been saying this whole time!!!! I would say "great minds think alike" but I have read Derrida (to the extent anyone can read Derrida!) and know that we are all eternally talking past each other and this apparent agreement is only illusion FactsAreUseless posted:Seriously though can we talk about Bioshock: Infinite in this thread? Text-based games only (Deus Ex and Planescape: Torment count) Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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