Well, Veeky Forums?

Well, Veeky Forums?

I look at the book itself. I find Moby Dick so tangential and frustrating to read, even with its historical context and relevance, I can barely stomach when he spends a full paragraph describing a ladder for no reason.

Is Goldeneye 64 still a good game? Not anymore, but I'm able to appreciate that it once was amazing at its time. The same I can say objectively for Moby Dick, maybe.

questions for someone who has fallen out of love

context matters little when considering the objective value of a book, that is, what it contributed to humanity.

we know value when we see it, because it is self-evident. the people who can't discern value often do not have any business reading in the first place, nor have a say in the matter.

historical context is for sophists trying to make a point.

Why not use the term emphasise instead of privilege.

Jesus this guys test levels are through the floor

is he reading from the introduction of the norton anthology of literary criticism?

>historical context is for sophists trying to make a point.
this is utterly retarded. Have you ever studied literature, or are just you speaking out of your arse? do you not understand that the majority of contemporary literary criticism is undertaken from a standpoint of new historicism?

literature is always context-specific, to varying degrees depending on the book naturally, but fiction never exists in a vacuum. The values and myths we find in literature might be universal, but one has to orientate their perspective entirely differently when reading WWI poetry compared to reformation tragedy.

>studied literature
There's your problem mate. You don't study literature, you read it and appreciate it. Most of the literary criticism is useless bullshit and its only use is teaching people how to read and appreciate books.

>you read and appreciate literature
>studying literary criticism teaches you how to read and appreciate literature
>literary criticism is therefore bullshit

solid reasoning dude. It's genuinely hilarious when people like you pretend to be an arbiter for literary quality, when really all you're doing is proving yourself to be wilfully ignorant.

Learn a little humility. Stop acting like you know better than centuries of literary scholarship written by people who have dedicated their lives to the field

Moby Dick is still an excellent novel.

You're probably familiar with the idiots you once attended school with who couldn't comprehend Shakespeare's Elizabethan verse and gave up, this is what you sound like. A philistine and an illiterate.

Answer to renowned faggot John Green's question is to just read the fucking book and hopefully you're not an insufferable pleb and can see the beauty in language even if isn't in your vernacular.

Why is presenteeism more brutal and pervasive now than it has ever been? Fuck.