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Oh cool, insanely boring reviews of books that no sane person would possibly care about this is exactly what I was looking for
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Oh no not projecting motives onto the author
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Sep 12, 2017 13:59
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BWUH??? WUHHHHHHH??????????
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Sep 12, 2017 14:02
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Mel Mudkiper posted:well to be fair ideally in criticism the author shouldn't even be considered I'm charitable enough to think you know why this is stupid but just in case you don't or someone else doesn't: the author (real human past or present you can point to/look at the grave of) maybe shouldn't be considered when doing crit. The Author on the other hand (i.e. the presumption that this piece of writing was constructed by a human and isn't just incredibly fortuitous collections of ink) absolutely should have motives ascribed to them cos otherwise lit crit is just a list of things that happen in the book with no attempt to create any kind of theory of what was meant. That's even if the little a author should be disregarded which isn't exactly uncontroversial
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Sep 12, 2017 14:34
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Why is a capital A Author needed for meaning? Text creates meaning. Are you or are you not aware of the process we call "writing"
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Sep 12, 2017 14:48
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Yes, but literary criticism is about the process we call "reading" Are you loving dense
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Sep 12, 2017 14:50
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Of course magic realism is fnatasy its got magic in the name
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Sep 17, 2017 14:55
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Magic realism is just fantasy that suffers from an underdeveloped magic system.
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Sep 17, 2017 15:01
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I know the meanings of words pretty well and magical realism is when there is magic in the real, for example in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
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Oct 2, 2017 15:03
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Rime posted:The Bible was a plagiarized fanfiction of much older Mesopotamian religions, with some genealogical rolls thrown into the middle to pad things out. Oh, word?
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Dec 14, 2017 04:46
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Neurosis posted:King James version has style but loses points on originality. Oh, word?
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Dec 14, 2017 10:03
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Neurosis posted:stop the presses, this conversation is in language inappropriately plain and comprehensible. summon the serpents of confusion and sesquipedalian tergiversation into this Eden of meaningful communication! Derrida's going to be pretty red faced if he reads this brutal takedown
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Mar 11, 2018 09:03
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Mel Mudkiper posted:
Speak for yourself
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Mar 12, 2018 23:36
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Calling dark age people living in Brittany 'french' is a pretty wild statement
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Mar 13, 2018 05:35
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Clipperton posted:meanwhile, the lit fic thread still can't go two pages without bringing up science fiction again secretly reading the lit fic thread just in case they mention sci fi
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May 31, 2018 21:01
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Jun 1, 2018 01:38
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Well Lem didn't actually use that term, given that he wrote in Polish and that's more an artifact of your reading an edition that was translated from Polish into French then into English which caused a term with way more baggage to be used than is used in Polish. Here's some Polish people talking about it https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/2703/understanding-the-use-of-the-word-negress-in-the-kilmartin-and-cox-translation If you read the way better more modern translation directly from Polish -> English she's just called "a huge black woman"
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Jun 15, 2018 02:07
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A human heart posted:The man who writes comic books and worships a snake god he made up as a joke is good actually It's true.
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Jul 2, 2018 02:53
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The prose is the content
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Jul 16, 2018 00:02
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quote:The Smell of Telescopes pass
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Jul 17, 2018 01:52
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COngrats on your stupid purchase
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Jul 20, 2018 21:24
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The claw of the conciliator
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Jul 20, 2018 21:30
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I will critically review any sci fi, fantasy, or alternate genre book for the purposes of this thread.
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Jul 20, 2018 22:23
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Ccs posted:China Mieville's Perdido Street Station Ill see what i can do
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Jul 21, 2018 01:18
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porfiria posted:it's supposed to be like medieval religious person comparing everything to Jesus stuff - someone who has definitely read a lot of medieval religious people's writings
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Jul 21, 2018 22:30
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Thomas Aquinas was famous for his catch phrase "just like Jesus"
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Jul 21, 2018 22:33
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Gene Wolfe isnt a bad writer just a bad translator is a powerful opinion
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Jul 22, 2018 03:26
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Gene Wolfe used scintillate and coruscate because he was translating an alien text which also contained two synoyms that sound bad and dull and he wanted to make sure we got the full experience
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Jul 22, 2018 03:38
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I am curious where you would claim the prose has merit Its extremely faithful to the original
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Jul 22, 2018 03:45
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Ccs posted:China Mieville's Perdido Street Station Whipped up some initial impressions: The first thing that strikes the reader upon encountering Perdido Street Station, is, of course, the name. A passing familiarity with Romance languages offers up the French "perdre", Spanish "perder" or Italian "perdere" - all meaning "to lose" as an immediate gloss. In fact, "perdido" itself is both Spanish and Portuguese - the adjectival form - "lost". What then, is lost? We assume perhaps the narrator - all narrators are lost, writing labyrinths they do not themselves understand. Or perhaps, more interestingly, the streets are perdido - our writer walking down paths they no longer fully possess in their memory - faces displaced, stalls with vibrant awnings and uncertain goods, roads that exist now only as smells. Held once in a thousand perceptions now shifting falling grains of sand - perdido. But now, the eye is caught by words read once and never lost - graffiti found on the walls of the basilica in Pompeii - "hope returns to the lover what it has once snatched away" and now we notice more that is not unremembered - a dog preserved perfectly in ash, walls trumpeted down or moved through by Nobody, a stately pleasure dome decreed. We see these as we never have, we did not lose such wonders. Perdido, we trace it back to the language of that graffiti and find perditus - a Latin word that over time became "lost" from an original meaning of "destroyed". We move from a lost narrator to lost streets to destroyed streets to a destroyed narrator - annihilated, the self lost in a culture that recalls the great cities of the past to all who have ears to hear, while in an unnamed, neighbourless cafe the sound of laughter cooing inches from my ear is just this, impressions. The visceral is lost. Perditus also once meant wasted.
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Jul 23, 2018 16:36
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'm tempted to guess that it's a quote by China Mieville writing about his own work under a pseudonym Finally the reason my name is Cest Moi has been revealed
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Jul 24, 2018 01:32
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A human heart posted:someone should shoot the troskyite sci fi man with a bazooka Please do not harm me, a human heart.
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Jul 24, 2018 06:43
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20 month old checking in, would appreciate if someone would lift the spoon up to my mouth and make aeroplane noises while feeding me tia
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Jul 26, 2018 02:37
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That sort of questioning is the best thing about Wolfe. Just like jazz is the notes you don't play, the best things about Wolfe are often the other, unwritten books that the book you've just read implies. Imagine the idiocy of the posts you don't make
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Aug 24, 2018 02:57
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:When Marshall McLuhan talked about the "medium" of writing, he meant, like, printed letters running right to left on a series of pages, reproduced exactly over many copies, not the loving prose and syntax. Everyone here is full of poo poo. form + content are identical anyway even if it's not what some canadian idiot said
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Aug 27, 2018 15:00
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the (((seven day week)))
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Nov 2, 2018 23:34
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Mel Mudkiper posted:i would argue anything can be a dragon because there are no dragons lmao
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Nov 13, 2018 21:05
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the poetic beauty of a strawman invented by realist philosophers actually manifesting in the world
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Nov 13, 2018 21:07
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Mel Mudkiper posted:why is one ok and the other one not why do you want a bunch of terrible writers to start writing nouveau romans
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The problem with that is that its very eurocentric. As I said before, a Long isn't really a dragon. We just looked at these weird chinese snake turtles and were like "gently caress it, that's also a dragon" a Long
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