#comp lit

[fanboy-feminist]

I just realized I never gave a life update (not that it matters—this is a pseudonymous tumblr account, lmao) but my classes this semester are cool and a manageable course-load. (Also cool music is coming out! Good for me as a college radio DJ.)

But I'm especially excited about a literature class I'm taking with an interdisciplinary (he called himself "'interdisciplinary,' or as I prefer to call myself, 'antidisciplinary'") Marxist professor. And I Fucking LOVE His Class And Teaching.

I am not a Marxist, but I love listening to his arguments. My women's studies program honestly has a lot of liberal-feminist types, and I've gotten to the point where my more radical/revolutionary tendencies are bulging out of me for those classes and I don't know how to go about it without feeling weird (and aggressive tbh). But going to the literal Marxist-critical-theorist's literature class where we talk about history and politics as much as we do literature is keeping me sane!

[ghostjelliess]

ugh, when you're reading through old versions of folk/fairy tales and discover a favorite book was just a retelling of an obscure story that no one knows so they didn't bother marketing it that way -_-

[nicholasandriani]

In Defense of Play: A rereading of Caillois’ “Man, Play, and Games”

Groos came to seein play the guarantor of youth: “Animals also do not play be­cause they are young; they are young because they have toplay.”82 He therefore distinguished play ac­tivity involving (a) the sensory apparatus (the sense of touch,heat, taste, odor, hearing, color, shape, movement, etc.); (b )the motor apparatus (feeling about, destruction and analysis,construction and synthesis,…

[betweenlands]

i walk into the literature convention wearing a shirt that says ask me about the uniquely complex conditions of live improvisation, limitation of expression by narrative and physical constraints, meta-awareness of a specific audience, video editing/framing choices, and amateur enthusiast storytelling that contribute to virtual improv roleplay* being a fascinating nascent artform that is uniquely suited to telling stories that cannot be told in any other format and everyone cheers & claps & whoops & hollers and then they read the smaller text saying *especially within Minecraft builds, maps, servers, streams, and videos and then everyone boos & yells & shoots me with lasers and guns & blows me up with grenades & hits me with 2x4s

[utilitycaster]

I think my grand unifying theory of the vast majority of fandom, media literacy in fiction, and social media with strangers interactions really comes down to a lot of people either don't understand or don't accept that once you add humans emotions into the mix there's no such thing as a consistently reproducible result.

Some of this is that two characters' reactions to the same or similar events will not necessarily be the same (this is like 99% of Neve and Lucanis discourse). Some of it is that some characters fuck around and lethally find out and some merely experience unpleasant consequences (this is 100% of Liliana and Essek discourse). Some of it is that a particular type of character is popular within the fandom and a similar one is not, and while you should do a sanity check of whether this is due to prejudice, oftentimes it's the circumstances of the specific character's story, or they're actually quite different but have a surface-level similarity and are being treated as interchangeable when in fact they have wildly different appeals (Fjord and Laudna being a strong example here).

And outside of that, the most vicious anon hate and discourse I've received and that I've seen friends and mutuals receive is a response to one of the two below categories:

Why do you like what you like and not what I like (ie, an inability to accept that some people can see precisely the same show as you do and understand it and dislike things you love or vice versa)

How could I have known that my question would be something you didn't care for (ie, an inability to accept that other people have different feelings and preferences than you)

And really, it's not terribly hard to get past all of the above! But it does require that you accept you're not the center of the world and that other people have feelings that aren't yours and that there's no cosmic universal justice and that people can dislike something without it being bigoted and if you can't do those things it really is a sign you're not ready for, frankly, life as an adult.

[motherlarkspur]

My deepest sympathy for my AP Lit class that has to hear me connect every topic we cover back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. In my defense, it's a beautiful representation of human nature through the ages.

[sscrambledmeggss]

my literature class is incredibly tiny (there’s only seven people. the professor spent like all of winter break thinking it would be canceled), so what i’m trying to insinuate is: i hope we don’t turn into a tiny pretentious cult and push one of our friends off a cliff during a accidentally snowy day

[bakinglesbianvampirething]

I suddenly love writing essays now that they’re about lesbian vampires

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

de - [gunshot noises]

[fanboy-feminist]

Hey Tumblr! There is not a single class I am interested in taking this Spring semester that does not have a time conflict with my senior seminar/research classes required for my degree . . . I feel like I am going crazy.

And, when I say “every single class,” I really do mean Every Single Class. (Media, News, and Consumers; Southern Literature; Black Feminisms; Feminist Philosophy; Preserving Gay Spaces; Modern U.S. History; literally all have time conflicts. I feel like I am going insane.)

[chicago-geniza]

WRITING ABOUT CLARICE LISPECTOR EXACTLY LIKE TRANSLATORS AND SCHOLARS WRITE ABOUT BRUNO SCHULZ:

"“It’s not the Bible,” my editor reminded me at one point when I was worried about maintaining the traceability of certain key words across the collection, in solidarity with readers prone to exegesis but cut off from direct access to the original."

[pasdetrois]

the woman in white, wilkie collins ⬧ deathless, catherynne m. valente

[mackachu1212]

We were talking about object compliments in my class but I thought this would be funny

[scaredenglishmajor]

me, thinking: *I mean, i’m literally learning literature at oxford university, my professors must be super serious academics*

my professor: idk dudes, all i’m saying is that satan is a really fuckable figure. that’s just the truth.

[nazumichi]

ap exam scores you’re scaring me……

[howifeltabouthim]

Had anyone ever sought so zealously and found so little? When would he gain the wisdom to finally give up?

Lev Grossman, from The Bright Sword