#literature major

[academic-vampire]

𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔨 𝔞𝔦𝔯.

[cryinginmelodrama]

[ladycatashtrophe]

I know many people need their silly little scenario time before bed to fall asleep at night, but I for one also require a decent amount of immersive-daydreaming-time immediately upon awakening to fortify my soul for the day and that's why I'm an English major.

[theartofperishingslowly]

My mind says get a degree but my heart says open a pet friendly book cafe.

[mactiir]

I know the average reading comprehension on this site is zero but I'm different. I'm applying wildly inappropriate analysis lenses to popcorn media. I'm doing a queer theory reading of Horus Heresy novels. Now I'm doing feminist analysis of Warhammer 40k canon. Now I'm applying Marxist analysis to The Outsiders. Time for a historical analysis of The Locked Tomb. A post-colonial reading of the entirety of Doctor Who. A psychological anlaysis of Twilight. On the horseshoe scale of reading comprehension I'm at "so much reading comprehension that it loops back around to not understanding books at all actually". You can't stop me. I'm literary analysis Georg

[nelliesnook]

Tips From a Recent English Graduate (That May Apply to Other Arts Degrees)

• If you can't understand a certain book/essay, find a summary first, and *then* read what you needed to originally. It'll (hopefully) make more sense!

• If you're on a time crunch and you have a dense reading to do, read the abstract/introduction paragraph(s) + the concluding paragraphs. Authors will most likely have their key points outlined in these sections. Afterwards, you can go through the middle sections to pick out more concrete details.

• You probably won't be able to read every required text, and that's okay! I would skim a lot of my readings and make note of any sections that seemed particularly important (you learn to pick out the major details with practice). Also, if your professor seems to place more importance on a certain text than others, try to read that one more thoroughly.

• When it comes to essay writing, and you're required to choose between texts, brainstorm in bullet points key info from each text. Do this to identify the ones that a) have enough material for your argument and b) relate to your argument the most (they don't necessarily have to *back up* your argument; rather, they can serve as a counterpoint you can argue *against*). Making bullet points are a good way to ensure you're not stuck grasping for material later on in the writing process!

Hope these help! :)

[vampir3-jack]

-Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, (chapter 25)

Don Quixote is… uh… a funny, freaky little guy.

[deadpoetemi]

Dying for a future where I inspire my students like he did

[classicliteratureprincess]

I’m packing and I found this old dream book that I got from a old used bookstore

It tells you supposedly what each dream means

[burningvelvet]

i’m so fucking sick of people (say, the people currently winning the lawsuit) claiming that the internet archive infringes their precious darling copyrights—if they want individual books taken down, why should the trial not only be about those?—why must they punish the entire catalogue? i use the archive primarily for old historical books, academic books, many books that are niche or 100+ years old which no one can buy anywhere, nearly no one would buy even if they could, and which the vast majority of real libraries do not even carry. i use the internet archive practically every single day for research and studying and it is my #1 resource by far. why do people value profits over knowledge? why do people value profits over accessibility? this is a library and the publishing companies are mad because it allows people to read their works for free. IT’S A FUCKING LIBRARY! poor people deserve to read and access archives. poor people make up the majority of the human race. all this trial is accomplishing is making thousands of great books inaccessible to poor people because publishing companies want to save a few bucks. sure, you can borrow books from other libraries via interlibrary loaning, but doing so takes WEEKS due to shipping. the internet archive saves people an enormous amount of time and money. this is a major case of book burning being put into action and practically no one outside of academia gives a fuck or even knows about this issue because journalists know this story won’t sell well and thus aren’t bringing attention to it. i am disgusted and my hope for humanity is in the gutter.

[spalanai]

born to slay. forced to write essays.

[academic-vampire]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔱 ℌ𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔞𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 🏛️🏹🦌

[cryinginmelodrama]

i might not know what I want to do with my life like you do, but i know I was meant to wander through fields of wildflowers, to sit by the keys of my old keyboard, to make a home that breathes love into every room. I was meant to lose myself in libraries, buried in books without a single thought of time or place, to roam through city streets and gaze up at buildings too grand to look at without wonder. I was meant to knock on the wrong doors and stumble into the right people, to stroll through life instead of cry my way through it. I was meant to find secret paths along riversides, leading to some forgotten beach where I’d watch the sun dip below the horizon. I wasn’t made for just one place—not forever. I was meant to be alive everywhere, to fill my days with moments that resist being contained, to be a reminder, or maybe just a dream, of what life could be.

[spiderstudies]

" Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood." - George Orwell, 1984.

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[theartofperishingslowly]

Pt 2. Of Things my English teacher has said in class:

"Don't just study literature for happiness, but also have some passion and usage: be a hedonistic utilitarian before everything else."

I would've started clapping if the class wasn't so serious.

[ravenclawivan]

White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky