articles on literature

EVOLghost · 02.28.2011, 07:47 PM

anyone have a credible site for articles on literature(Kafka).....I'd like to get some commentary from someone credible.

jonathan · 03.01.2011, 08:16 AM

Do you attend a university? Ebscohost? jstor?

EVOLghost · 03.01.2011, 01:34 PM

there's only two databases. this school kind of sucks.

Decayed Rhapsody · 03.01.2011, 02:37 PM

Do you have access to JSTOR?

EVOLghost · 03.01.2011, 03:13 PM

oh shit.

just noticed jstor.

nevermidn. haha

!@#$%! · 03.01.2011, 03:15 PM

Most critics are caca, but a great critic is a beacon of light an understanding.

Lemme throw a few books at you:

Erich Auerbach. Mimesis.

George Steiner. Language & Silence

"Tears" Eliot. Tradition and the Individual Talent.

Georges Bataille. Literature and Evil.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lectures on Literature

Friedrich Schlegel. Atheneum Fragments

E.A. Poe. The Poetic Principle

Leo Tolstoy. What is Art?

Roman Jakobson - [don't have a title for you here, but there's a great article with Levi-Strauss about Baudelaire's "Les Chats"]

Roland Barthes. The Pleasure of the Text

Ezra Pound. The ABC of Reading

Susan Sontag. Against Interpretation

that is a random list i just pulled out of my ass. there is a shit-ton more to explore and people will recommend different things. but those i have enjoyed even if some are obsolete: pleasure is never obsolete. I can't find much post-1970s to recommend as most gets lost in total wankery and the clear-headed stuff like James Fenton's The Strength of Poetry ends up being too basic-- but maybe you wanna start basic.

but in spite of what i just said, on Kafka, this book is brilliant:

Deleuze and Guattari. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. <<-- that!

EVOLghost · 03.01.2011, 04:13 PM

^ ooh

I"m actually curretnyl readin a book by Vladimir Nobokov
Invitiation to a beheading.

gualbert · 03.01.2011, 04:17 PM

Books about a specific book: crap.
Books about litterature in general: fine, if you're a critic, or a student who has to write a thesis about that, i guess.

Rob Instigator · 03.01.2011, 07:50 PM

i like books about specific sentences.

EVOLghost · 03.10.2011, 08:26 AM

Any specific ones?

evollove · 03.10.2011, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EVOLghost

^ ooh

I"m actually curretnyl readin a book by Vladimir Nobokov
Invitiation to a beheading.

Spoiler alert: he may or may not die at the end.

Lamont Cranston · 03.10.2011, 02:13 PM

Raymond Chandlers piece The Simple Art of Murder
http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlit...andlerart.html

EVOLghost · 03.10.2011, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evollove

Spoiler alert: he may or may not die at the end.

should I interpret this as it's a vague-ass ending?

evollove · 03.10.2011, 05:34 PM

^ I've already said too much.

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jonathan children of satan Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 320	Do you attend a university? Ebscohost? jstor?
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Decayed Rhapsody the destroyed room Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 572	Do you have access to JSTOR?
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EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	oh shit. just noticed jstor. nevermidn. haha
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03.01.2011, 03:15 PM	#6
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,564	Most critics are caca, but a great critic is a beacon of light an understanding. Lemme throw a few books at you: Erich Auerbach. Mimesis. George Steiner. Language & Silence "Tears" Eliot. Tradition and the Individual Talent. Georges Bataille. Literature and Evil. Vladimir Nabokov. Lectures on Literature Friedrich Schlegel. Atheneum Fragments E.A. Poe. The Poetic Principle Leo Tolstoy. What is Art? Roman Jakobson - [don't have a title for you here, but there's a great article with Levi-Strauss about Baudelaire's "Les Chats"] Roland Barthes. The Pleasure of the Text Ezra Pound. The ABC of Reading Susan Sontag. Against Interpretation that is a random list i just pulled out of my ass. there is a shit-ton more to explore and people will recommend different things. but those i have enjoyed even if some are obsolete: pleasure is never obsolete. I can't find much post-1970s to recommend as most gets lost in total wankery and the clear-headed stuff like James Fenton's The Strength of Poetry ends up being too basic-- but maybe you wanna start basic. but in spite of what i just said, on Kafka, this book is brilliant: Deleuze and Guattari. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. <<-- that!
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EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	^ ooh I"m actually curretnyl readin a book by Vladimir Nobokov Invitiation to a beheading.
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gualbert the end of the ugly Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,088	Books about a specific book: crap. Books about litterature in general: fine, if you're a critic, or a student who has to write a thesis about that, i guess.
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Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	i like books about specific sentences. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	Any specific ones?
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Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	Raymond Chandlers piece The Simple Art of Murder http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlit...andlerart.html __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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evollove invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,879	^ I've already said too much.
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