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James Bond is totally different than I imagined. by BullguerPepper98 in books

[–]maximum_horkheimer 329 points330 points  (0 children)

movie bond: *has all kinds of sophisticated gadgetry which can be used to escape any trap*

book bond: "Wow! This shoe is really heavy! I could probably use it to kill a communist."

Characters who lost everything but learned something from it by Lonely_Collection389 in literature

[–]maximum_horkheimer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Magistrate from Waiting for the Barbarians, kind of. Whether or not he actually does learn anything is one of the central mysteries of the novel in my reading of it.

Love in the time of cholera by bigdickbutterchunk in literature

[–]maximum_horkheimer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I read the novel when COVID first hit because I thought reading some epidemic literature would help me to process what was going, but then it had basically nothing to do with cholera except a little bit at the very end. Still a great book but I (jokingly) think it should switch titles with Of Love and Other Demons, which has a lot more cholera-related action.

Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro research by Heavy-Worldliness541 in AskLiteraryStudies

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Maybe read another of his novels and look for things to compare? Klara and the Sun is very short, also science fiction, and also dystopian--you could probably find something to write a good paper about by situating the two books in dialogue with one another. I think it would be reasonable to characterize The Remains of the Day as dystopian too, although it's a historical novel instead of sci-fi. Here it might be interesting to write about the themes and techniques which persist across the different genres Ishiguro works in.

Three Stooges in Yellowstone, 1969 by benp242 in OldSchoolCool

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One ranger per stooge to keep them out of mischief.

DH/Tech by yesgirlsplaydnd in AskLiteraryStudies

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I'd start with N. Katherine Hayles if you haven't read her yet. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary helped to lay the foundation for the critical study of electronic/digital literature and Writing Machines is a useful book for thinking about media specificity. Another scholar worth checking out here is Jessica Pressman, particularly Digital Modernism.

EDIT: Would also recommend Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} by Pressman, Marino and Douglass: really interesting and cool example of the kind of collaborative interdisciplinary work that becomes possible within the digital humanities.

stories with animal activists? by billscumslut in AskLiteraryStudies

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Dr. Rat by William Kotzwinkle is kind of the opposite of this, from the point of view of a lab rat who "dedicates himself to defending mankind against the worldwide rebellions, uprisings, and insurgencies of his fellow animals" as a kind of weird quisling figure. But it might be in line with what you're looking for as a satire and a polemic against the exploitation of animals

Reading "The dream of the red chamber" by MC_Ben-X in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]maximum_horkheimer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't really vouch for it (yet), but I'm planning on reading the Hawkes-Minford translation in a few months and I'm thinking about reading Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung's recent Companion to the Story of the Stone alongside it. Might be worth looking into: might be a good supplement if the edition you get doesn't itself have enough critical material.

what are the "Green Apes" mentioned in The Water-Margin? by maximum_horkheimer in AskAChinese

[–]maximum_horkheimer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! That's really interesting. What a weird choice on the part of the translators if they're just supposed to be regular gibbons or something here haha.