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moderngothicbooks · 10 months

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so i decided to start something in my chronic unemployment in the hopes of becoming more employable: i made a newsletter!

a friend got me onto substack and i’ll be posting newsletters on there, on an ad hoc basis, discussing the Gothic, contemporary literary theories, and culture. there’ll be articles, book reviews and more, it’ll be developed as it grows. if there is anything you would like to see explored, please let me know!

so if you’re interested in contemporary literature and theory, please go and have a look at The Wandering Scholar on substack, and click subscribe if you want to be notified when i post!

https://thewanderingscholar.substack.com/

#news #newsletter #substack #literature #gothic #gothic literature #contemporary literature #studyblr #studentblr #uniblr #literatureblr #bookblr

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anarkali-disco-chali · 5 months

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oh jane, we are together in this.

#jane eyre #charlotte brontë #desiblr #poetry #desi #desi tag #desi tumblr #poetic #desi aesthetic #desi academia #desi stuff #classic #literature #literatureblr

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antony-studies · 2 years

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About halfway through The Odyssey now; I got snared by the story last night and read like 130 (out of 300) pages in one sitting.

#studyblr #studyspo #literature #university #dark academia #light academia #reading #library #studying #litblr #literatureblr #classical literature #the odyssey #homeros

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strawberrysw1tchblad3 · 3 years

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homeric epithets have my heart.

rosy-fingered dawns and wine-dark seas. bronze-armoured achaeans on sea-cleaving ships advancing towards the many-towered troy. the swift-footed achilles, great-hearted patroculus, flaming-haired menelaus. and don't forget the divinely-named gods; the cloud-gatherer zeus, ox-eyed athena, earth-shaking poseidon, silver-footed thetis, mercury-swift iris, soft-cheeked aphrodite.

these words will always be long-shadowed and sweet-savored.

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malice-bradbury · 4 years

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nothing more romantic than you getting pinned to a bookshelf by your academic rival, both of you staring daggers at each other, restraint breaking, the book in your hand dropping with a thud as you both let impulse dominate instead of logic and reason,, love’s indeed a fallacy. checkmate.

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comparatist · 3 years

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04|04|21

just finished two chapters of the third book of midnight's children for today. i've planned out the reading schedules for tomorrow. will try to follow them. however, the catch with modernist books is, they make you dive into the throes of imagination after every line, hence it's almost impossible to gulp them down/read a lot at one go, hence not trying to take in a lot or else i'll be overwhelmed.🍒🏳️‍🌈

after much consideration/thingking, i've decided to maintain a manual blog/account/record/diary of my daily thinking notes, specially the ones i get while reading books. it'll be messy and that's okay. that's the whole idea of taking it down on a page, so that they stop messing with my brains. i started it from today and it has been very helpful already. i'm pouring down my unedited versions of chains of thoughts entangled with each other and as i sit to pen them down, several others related to the same subject matter, show up and get added there which really increases my confidence to think more. enough talk. here's a glimpse of the notes. 🍀🌿

[also, to increase the span of my concentration in these difficult times and stop phone addiction, i got the idea of an app named forest, several times on this platform and today, finally i downloaded it and it is amazing and already helping me to focus more on my tasks. thanks tumblr! this site has been the best thing ever since second wave of corona hit our lives!] 🌱🍁

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lovel-y · 4 years

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Me: I need to save money

Me 20 min later checking amazons site: should I get a fourth copy of pride and prejudice?

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #bookblr #literatureblr

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libraryofvenus · 3 years

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I Turn the Carriage, Yoke and Set Off - Traditional Chinese Poem (anon, tr. Burton Watson & Arthur Waley)

I turn the carriage, yoke and set off, far far, over never-ending roads. The autumn winds shake the hundred grasses, On every side, how desolate and bare! Among all I meet, nothing of the past; Their strangeness hastens the coming of old age. Prosperity and decay, each have their season; success is bitter when it is so late in coming! Man is not made of metal or stone; He cannot far prolong the days of his fate. Swiftly he follows in the wake of change; Fame is the only treasure that endures.

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marinotcurie · 4 years

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hermes: oh. i accidentally broke ares's sword, how long do you think i'll live?

athena: five

hermes: five what? days? hours?

athena: four

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moderngothicbooks · 2 years

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so Cursed was a good little collection of rewritten fairy-tales & children's stories, my favourite was probably 'Wendy, Darling'

now onto Mexican Gothic, let's see if it's worth the hype!

#bookblr #literatureblr #literature studyblr #literature #gothic literature #contemporary literature

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eternalstars · 4 years

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Instead of working on our assignments me and my friends are discussing what we’ll wear when we help the legitimate king reclaim the throne. So far these are our favorites.

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pachydern · 4 years

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(5.21.20) i finally started my essay draft! today has been an eensy bit hectic bc i had a bunch to do, but thankfully none of the new material was too difficult!! thankfully i only have to write a 2page reflection for pygmalion so it's not that much to write in a week. also demonstrative pronouns and adjectives are Really confusing but i think i understand! does anyone have a good youtube video on it? ( T_T)＼(^-^ )

#remember to take your meds tonight!! i love you so much!#studyblr #hirigana #japaneseblr #literatureblr #pygmalion #aesthetic

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literature-princess · 4 years

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Title:Desecrated

TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE, SELF HARM, VIOLENCE, PROFANITY, & MISCARRIAGE

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You fucking lowlife bastard.

Look what you’ve done.

Look at the damage you caused.

My lover was taken advantage of.

She’s been shaken to her core.

She’s broken and angry

With herself for

What happened to her.

You approached her.

She’s said no countless times

But you didn’t care.

You deliberately violated her.

You didn’t respect her.

You didn’t honor her.

You didn’t even bother to

Check up on her.

She’s been treated horribly

And in the worst ways possible.

She lost what she can never

Get back from you.

You stole something from her

And crushed it into so many pieces.

You tore her apart

Inside and outside.

She screamed in pain.

She was hurt and

Left in a state

Of agony.

You are nothing but

A fucking monster.

You may have history with her

But you don’t deserve to have her back.

Not after what you did to her.

Now, she’s suffering

From your disgusting act of

Assault which cannot be undone.

To make it worse, she vomits

Every morning.

She’s in a constant state

Of nausea.

I know you caused her to be with child

From your shameless, vile act.

To top it off, a child is gonna

Suffer with its mother.

She didn’t ask for this

And nor did I.

I’m coming over to beat your ass

Right here, right now.

Seeing you bruised and battered

Leaves me in satisfaction.

I’ve gotten my rightful

Retribution for her.

You don’t deserve her

Or your love child.

If anything, I’d be

A better father and a better husband than you.

I’d be the man you can’t.

Weeks later, it gets worse.

There isn’t a heartbeat.

None at all.

The child is dead.

Fucking dead.

This isn’t fair.

This wasn’t meant to be.

Blood trails between her legs

Leaving her to cramp

On the ground in

Great excruciating turmoil.

I hate you even more

For forcing yourself onto her.

She’s in more pain

Than ever.

I can’t bear to see

A beautiful soul tormented

By this hellish trauma

She was forced to endure.

Enough was enough for her until

The moment she sliced

Into her beautiful skin

And let her blood flow onto the floor.

Finding her unconscious

And unresponsive left me shattered.

I lost two people

And it fucking hurts.

You’ll never know

The pain of losing

A woman and a baby

That could’ve been yours.

Even if the child wasn’t mine

By blood relations, I still

Cared greatly for him or

Her even if he or she hadn’t been born.

My world is no longer whole.

It’s unbearable to live in.

I can’t stand it

Any longer.

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strawberrysw1tchblad3 · 3 years

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yeah and what about it

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malice-bradbury · 3 years

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to the strangers i met in bookstores: i see you and i simply adore you. from the old man who obsess over cowboy and wild west stories, howdy dear sir. to the little girl with a collection of beatrix potter books in her hand, and to the grey lady with her refined tastes on literature, i wish you all well. i terribly miss hunting books for hours and ofc meeting unlikely, odd strangers even if the perspective’s all in third person *sighs* oh the pleasant experience is like something from an indie film, relatively mundane yet magical at the same time

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comparatist · 3 years

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the first class of 6.2[modern indian literature in translation] speaks about the dominant and residual aspects of a literary period on the context of modern indian poetry.

it also mentions the transgression of usage of poetic diction in the same field changing the presentation of poetic convention as our times and experiences change. one of the major features of the modern indian literary connotations was to keep it simple by doing away with abstractions, so that poetry doesn’t become the 'other thing' and therefore the imagery conveying the conventional terms had to be changed.

could study after a lot of days. i'm not doing great recently. my concentration falters a lot. :') however in the meantime, i managed to read of lot of texts.

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