There's certainly a lot of questions which hinge on it; anything about categories or definitions is inherently asking what the literary community thinks about the subject.
[P]erhaps we should make a point of answering some unanswered
questions, even if imperfectly
Please don't.
Even if we have to move slower than usual, I'd much rather that Literature have high quality answers that speak for the site better than a simple statistic can.
If you have a partia...
@steelersquirrel In the UK, schools can either go primary (grades 1-6, ages 3-11) then to secondary (grade 7+), or they can do something closer to the USA with three schools of 4-5 years each. here's a table covering the different divisions.
I live in London but i don't know which one's more common since I went to school in Australia. I could ask some work colleagues tomorrow if you'd like.
Lord Byron's "Fragment of a Novel" is an unfinished story about a vampire. (It's not clear from the story that the man is a vampire, but at least according to this site, Byron said that the man would have arisen from the dead to feed on the upper class.)
What sources influenced Byron's writing? ...
@BESW Well, some sort of definitive source if there is one...I don't really know what my question will be, but it will be something along the lines of comparing the real life relationship of Stoker and Irving to Renfield and Dracula
@Randal'Thor Irving. Stoker explicitly drew on the decades-long Victorian vampire craze including The Vampyre, Carmilla, and Varney the Vampire, as well as doing in-depth independent research into folk lore; a lot of Dracula comes from European werewolf lore.
So, would a question like that about Bram Stoker's personal relationship with Henry Irving and comparing it to Dracula and Renfield an interesting question to ask?
I haven't studied Stoker's inspirations deeply, but I've read a good handful of essays and articles. Admittedly it was a while ago, but Irving's not a name I remember at all in conjunction with Dracula--and the article Wikipedia cites is from before I did that reading.
@BESW Irving was more of an inspiration of Dracula's mannerisms, I believe. I watched a really good biography on Stoker about it and they really focused on the relationship between him and Henry Irving.
Well, it was on the educational channel...OPB is what it's called here Oregon Public Broadcasting. I always watch Henry VIII educational shows with David Starkey who is a well respected Doctor. So, I have always trusted those shows. This one on Stoker was the only non Henry VIII show that I had watched.
@doppelgreener Oh, don't worry about it. I was just curious how the school system worked over there and I know that Rand lives there, so that's why I was asking him, just assuming that he went through a regular school system in the UK, but it is apparent now that he obviously attended Hogwart's :P
Susanna Clarke's excellent novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is written in a very convincing (at least to me) "19th-century literature" style. Not only the language used by the characters but also the sentence structure and storytelling style of the non-dialogue sections of the book feel very m...
Interesting. It appears that Bram Stoker named his son after Henry Irving. His son's full name is Irving Noel Thornley. Irving was the child's Godfather.
Sarah Tolmie's novelette The Dancer on the Stairs is a kind of portal fantasy, with the protagonist whisked away from our world into a strange fantastical one -- except the place she is whisked to is a guarded stairway, where she depends on charity and desperation to survive, and can get out only...
If she did, she hasn't admitted it. In her writing on Pottermore she states:
King's Cross, which is one of London's main railway stations, has a very personal significance for me, because my parents met on a train to Scotland which departed from King’s Cross station. For this reason, and beca...
^ I dunno, I think I vote less here than on Sci Fi, mostly because on Sci Fi I already know which questions I'm interested in and seek them out, whereas on Lit, I look at almost all questions.
@Randal'Thor I know, which is a shame, but I can see why... you want to encourage voting, but not just voting to get badges. Although, I guess there are the Civic Duty and Electorate badges
I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding close and open vote like they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where necessary).
This can be used in "grey areas" where a moderator can choose to give his or her opinion, bu...
http://movies.stackexchange.com is the URL for this site, Movies & TV, but http://tv.stackexchange.com just gives a "Page Not Found" and a sad panda.
Given that the site is equally about both movies and TV, should we ask Stack Exchange for a redirect from http://tv.stackexchange.com to here?
Re...
@DForck42 Well, for one thing I don't have an account there. For another, I'm not even sure what anime or manga are, so I have zero interest in getting involved with that site.
But at least now I've put the idea out there so that someone who's more interested can do it.
@Randal'Thor But it's a classic &-site. So they should definitely have a redirect too. I'm sure the omittance of those are more due to obliviousness than genuine reluctance.
"Justify bugging the devs"? Um, shouldn't this take...like...5 minutes? I'm sure the heavily Documentation- and SO-newnav plagued devs can spare that during a smoke break.
@Benjamin I know. I saw that! It's all good. I'm used to talking to myself at times ;)
@Randal'Thor This Bram Stoker thing is turning into a huge undertaking. I feel like I am almost answering my own question with the research that I am doing. I don't want my question to sound like a statement, but I want to show that I researched the question. Sorry, I am not really asking you anything...just typing out loud ;)
@steeler Also, ignore all this nonsense about self answers being a bad thing. They're explicitly encouraged by SE; hating them seems to be an SFF-specific phenomenon and linked to the culture of caring too much about rep.
In the play The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is pretty much disdained and humiliated only because he was a Jew. His thirst for revenge against Antonio is fuelled by the fact that Antonio constantly humiliates Shylock in front of his fellow merchants.
Even at the end, after Portia skilfully tricks...
I proposed a [title] tag for the questions a bout the title of books. When people need to understand, or discuss about the meaning of a book, they could use that tag.
Examples:
What is the significance of the title of the book Wool?
Meaning of the title "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
What ...
@steelersquirrel Which is bad, of course. "Vote for the post, not the person" is one of the most fundamental tenets of SE. But ... shrug, what can one do.
@steelersquirrel Various reasons. Some people don't have the self-control not to use their account if it still exists. Some people don't want to leave any of their personal information on the site. Some people simply want an absolutely clean break, for whatever reason.
@steelersquirrel I've self answered only after I've written the question, waited for answers, then did even more research and decided I had enough to write an answer with, or if I had wondered about something for a while, then eventually researched it, and figured it would prove useful to others, if it seemed hard enough to answer.
@HDE226868 That's exactly how I would self answer. Actually, I have only self answered one time and it was for a much more noble cause...it was for a hat! ;)
@steelersquirrel I've actually written as many self-answers on Literature as I've gotten answers from other folks. (cough cough) more answers are appreciated (cough cough). That said, I've seen others write some really excellent self-answers on the site.
Sorry to everyone in Mos: my tablet can't handle too many gifs. It was on the verge of exploding in there. Thanks for the cheeriness! It also appears that there is a koala lover in our midst!!! Nice!!
@Randal'Thor I know that you don't really watch movies, but you really need to watch Hachi: A dog's tale. It is soooo great! And it's based on a true story. Wad would also love it.
I rarely cry at Movies. I was in tears at the end of that movie. It was just so awesome!!
@Gallifreyan Oh, God...it's already sounding stressful for me. I can't handle seeing child abuse or rape or anything in movies. Does it have any of that?