ReindeerThistle
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I really hope you haven't been waiting for winter to come around to use that line.
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My stepmother emailed me that link last spring, so, yeah!
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My stepmother emailed me that link last spring, so, yeah!
SamSniped
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There's a difference between learning English and learning how to analyze symbols and figurateive stuff. Namely that I've always spoken English, but have never really understood why the hell the blue curtains symbolize sadness or stuff like that.
ReindeerThistle
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You are not alone... I was a literary criticism major and a marxist, and a drop-out.
JohannaK
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Butbutbut... Language is all figurative! Literal language is just the bits of language the figurativeness of which has been forgotten!
sophie
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ReindeerThistle
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I will give you that, Owen. But 99.9% of fiction is autoerotic nonsense. That's an exaggeration, of course.
madviking
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moreover, both the conscious and subconscious writing patterns (motifs, symbols, etc.) reveal a lot of references, interpretations, and fun dissectable tidbits about the piece of writing
madviking
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cartesian ontology sucks.
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cybrxkhan
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Spoiler :
That's sort of what happened to me in late Middle School. I used to be able to finish books in a day or two in Middle School, then somehow in High School it just... didn't happen. Well, except for The Catcher in the Rye, finished that in a day.
My personal qualm is not so much about having to analyze symbols and figurative language and so on, it's that I felt that that was being focused on way too much at the expense of an interesting story. I want a story that interests me first, then the symbols and figurative language will become interesting and relevant to me.
Maybe I'm just being an uneducated slob.
Nah, I just have ridiculously high standards for what I consider good and worthy.
I guess I could rant about my standards another time.
Wrymouth3
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Phrossack
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What the hell is this? The literary criticism thread?! Can we get some legitimate rants in here, please?
Literary criticism is a rant.
Rant: We really don't appreciate health until we've lost it. I am very unused to being sick. Stupid cold. I miss breathing freely.
madviking
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how about music criticism? :]
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Just worked for 12 hours straight and then dealt with an employer that said, "You know how we agreed on $50 per article? Yeah, how about... $1.50 per article?"
nope.avi
It's times like this when I am happy that there's a middleman, but it's going to take between 30-60 days to have the money forced from his account unless he bends. Bah. $400 down the drain.
nope.avi
It's times like this when I am happy that there's a middleman, but it's going to take between 30-60 days to have the money forced from his account unless he bends. Bah. $400 down the drain.
ReindeerThistle
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What the hell is this? The literary criticism thread?! Can we get some legitimate rants in here, please?
Rant: Discussing Eco's neo-classical symiology from The Name of the Rose never got me a date.... But being a competitive athlete who can discuss Eco.... BABE MAGNET!
azzaman333
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I wish I didn't default to thoughts of loneliness when my mind decides it wants to overthink things.
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