#an experiment in criticism

[cogentranting]

It's not exactly what he's saying, but the idea that something is not literature or not by what it is but by the way it's engaged way, opening up the idea we give it worth by treating it as worthy, that a thing is not loveable until it is loved, that when I read a book that may not have the esteem around it that others do but I take the time to care and read carefully for the good the true and the beautiful it is elevated beyond what it might be in another's hands. (But that taken in tension with Lewis's earlier point that good reading is receiving rather than using-- that you take the text as it is with its own art and ideas rather than trying to read yourself and your ideas into the text) so that there is a listening and a receiving but also a pouring back into it our own effort and care.

So a book does not simply exist as literature, it is made literature by caring being given to it. And just because a book has not yet been read that way does not mean it cannot be.

#cogent reads #cs lewis #an experiment in criticism #listen theres a lot rattling around here #but i read the highlighted sentence and heard palpatine in my head and went and made thia #i DO think there is objective value to art and some is better and some is worse and there has to be something THERE To first receive #but i think its like... #great books give you a sapling to plant and through your attention and thought and care you water it into a tree #but there also books that give you just a cutting or seed and you have more work to do with that but with care a tree still grows

[greater-than-the-sword]

CS Lewis: I dont believe that any book which has been sincerely loved by an attentive reader can ever be fully dismissed as without literary merit.

CS Lewis: Except for things which are beyond the pale, like p0rn0graphy. And comics.

CS Lewis: Also, the moral value of a work has no effect on its literary merit.

CS Lewis: Also, we should judge the literary value of a work by the quality of its readers, not the other way around.

CS Lewis: Except for those beyond the pale works whose readers can be judged as of low intelligence for liking it, like comics.

CS Lewis: Also one should be careful in judging things without reading them just because the literary elite look down on them! In future they might become reputable and you will be seen as a prig.

#didnt age well in many ways #an experiment in criticism

[twicedailyquotes]

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself.

C.S. Lewis

An Experiment in Criticism

#quote #quotes #c.s. lewis #cs lewis #an experiment in criticism #book quote

[bobastudy]

summer break: a series of fragments

#studyblr #academia #aesthetic #dark academia #study with me #light academia #canadian studyblr #zoom university #food #baking #bakers of tumblr #CS Lewis #an experiment in criticism #literary theory #English major #psych major #psychblr #engblr #my posts

[metaphysicsinwater]

We are not content to be Leibnitzian monads. We demand windows. Literature as Logos is a series of windows, even of doors. One of the things we feel after reading a great work is ‘I have got out’. Or from another point of view, ‘I have got in’; pierced the shell of some other monad and discovered what it is like inside.

C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

#c. s. lewis #an experiment in criticism #english literature #essay #literary criticism #quoted she with a philosophical air

[midnights-dragon]

things critics hate, apparently:

people having fun

movies that are good as fuck and that ignite a viscerally emotional reaction from an audience of thousands and thousands of people

movies that are good

movies

anyways go watch fnaf

#bUt sCoTt cAwThOrN- shut the fuck up oh my fucking god THE MOVIE WAS GOOD #yall i am so serious when i say that fnaf was. so fucking good #what a fucking experience #there was barely anyone in my theater and it still felt like such a community there #!!!! #fnaf #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #freddy fnaf #mike schmidt #movies #critics

[itseghost]

some essek portrait doodles :] still figuring him out but i do love 2 draw him

#essek theyless #the mighty nein #critical role #critical role fanart #critrole #cr2 #m9 #i wanna experiment a little more w him still bc i cant settle on a face #or a skin tone? i feel like i always make him more purple than i want. i think more a dark greyish indigo would suit him #yknow. he might just be a character i draw different every time. im okay with that #i do like the idea of him with these very styled waves though #at least until he starts to unwind around the nein a bit #itseart

[noteverythingisgrooming]

In general the parallel between the popular uses of music and of pictures is close enough. Both consist of ‘using’ rather than ‘receiving’. Both rush hastily forward to do things with the work of art instead of waiting for it to do something to them. As a result, a very great deal that is really visible on the canvas or audible in the performance is ignored; ignored because it cannot be so ‘used’. And if the work contains nothing that can be so used—if there are no catchy tunes in the symphony, if the picture is of things that the majority does not care about—it is completely rejected. Neither reaction need be in itself reprehensible; but both leave a man outside the full experience of the arts in question.

"An Experiment In Criticism", C.S. Lewis

#an experiment in criticism #art #art criticism #art appreciation #literary criticism

[revvethasmythh]

I think it's inevitable that a certain group of people will take Orym's statement about not being able to put down the lens he see the world through as further proof that his perspective is subjective and therefore untrustworthy as it applies to the Vanguard, but imo it serves as a stronger indictment toward those who are able to view the Vanguard as anything other than awful and predatory and murderous. Other people have the luxury of being able to see this through another lens if they so want to--Orym cannot. Because once a group like this has murdered your family, for the sake of a practice run no less, a test, it is impossible to view the situation in any other way. He is walking proof of the harm that the Vanguard does. His loved ones have been deemed "necessary collateral damage." His lens is not one that can or should be set aside in the assessment of the Vanguard, because if they are willing to commit such heinous crimes and excuse them as necessary collateral for ends that are so uncertain, then they are fundamentally not an organization that can be reasoned with or even should be sympathized with

#if the way to free yourself from a literally caged entity is to murder your way across exandria you are simply not in the right #orym cannot remove the lens that has been forced upon him. which is that of someone who has experience extreme personal loss #at the hands of the vanguard #this does not make his perspective untrustworthy. it makes him a pillar. a constant reminder of what the vanguard actually is #and what they're willing to do for their end goals #cr spoilers #critical role #bells hells #orym

[cogentranting]

#quotes #cogent reads #cs lewis #an experiment in criticism

[greater-than-the-sword]

I think my biggest disagreement with Lewis here (after the idea that there is anyone with an inherently "unliterary" temperament) is with the idea that "using" art and "recieving" art are mutually exclusive.

#an experiment in criticism

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

Please don't judge me for the background picture x) - I worked on this for so long and I felt like if I had to put more effort in the background I would never finish it

(and based on the response on the wip I posted that was not an option lmao!!)

#although in my experience wips that are popular tend to stay more popular than the actual finished drawing lol #*looks at the shadowgast drawing that after like 3 years still has fewer notes than the wip* smh #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #callowmoore #rockwild #critical role #critical role fanart #fanart #danikunst #described #2024 #3

[funhouse-mirror-barbie]

I just. I don’t really want to keep talking about it, but I have to get these feelings out because the more I think about Somerton’s excuses video the angrier I get, ESPECIALLY given his insistence in the video that there isn’t a real community within LGBTQ spaces—specifically this quote; “We wanted it to be a channel where every queer person could feel welcomed... And we failed at that. That is something that, in hindsight, I think is impossible to create.”*

Because wow! Aren’t you the one who called Becky Albertalli, a bisexual woman, straight ?? Aren’t you the one who has consistently stolen queer and lgbtq people’s work as your own , profiting off of their labor and research and time? Aren’t you the one who sicced your fan base on smaller creators who noticed your plagiarism??? Aren’t YOU the one who LIED blatantly about lesbians “historically having it easier” than gay men ?? That LIED about Radclyffe Hall’s book being banned and destroyed???? What was it you said?? That she got to go on with “her merry little life”???

Fuck you. How dare you.

How dare you say there is no community, no safe space for all of us, when you have literally done NOTHING but maliciously and consistently stolen from, lied to, manipulated, and put down and bullied the community.

You have done nothing but try to break apart and put down your lgbtq siblings, so of course you believe that solidarity, safety, and intersectionality within our community is not something that can exist.

There are lgbtq people who are actively working to make those spaces, where everyone feels welcomed, but you clearly see yourself as being above that, above collaboration and community, above listening to other’s experiences.

You only think that a space where all queer and lgbtq people are welcomed and feel safe is impossible because your goal was never to carve out that space. It was to make money and take advantage of the people who looked up to you.

You think it’s impossible because you never once thought about the people you were stealing from, never once cared about the community, our history, the activism of our elders and all they did, never thought about how your actions and lies would hurt the community.

Stop making excuses and lying. Be fucking better.

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*(Somerton, James. “A Measured Response.” YouTube, uploaded by James Somerton, 26 February 2024, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kCNByQ6WopM)

(And that’s how you cite a FUCKING source, James. It took me a minute, after two seconds of research on how to source a YouTube video. Fuckhead)

*I added the link to the video to make a point, as you need to have it in citations. The video is monetized, so please either don’t click it and watch elsewhere OR watch with ad-blockers.

#james somerton #LGBTQ #lgbtq community #fuck off james fuCK OFFFFFFFF!!! #lesbian #im a lesbian and im so fucking mad at him ignoring the historical solidarity there was between gays and lesbians #so mad at him erasing people’s experiences and stealing #I’m so glad I never fucking saw this guys videos #hbomberguy #media criticism #funhouse convo #funhouse vent

[thequibblingking13]

Fearne Calloway, the woman that you are

(Zoom for better quality bc this file is big as fuck)

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr #cr spoilers #cr3 #cr3 spoilers #bell's hells #fearne calloway #fearne cr #critical role art #cr art #bee draws #this piece was really just one big art experiment for me which is why it's as wild as it is #also ignore that she's missing 95% of her core outfit. i was just having fun #ANYWAYS. Fearne getting the hellboy treatment was literally incredible and her new look sounds so so cool. so u know i had to draw something #this has been my only art of the campaign and its bc it brought on SUCH a strong image #obligatory tags for if aabria iyengar ever sees this art: thanks for willing burn-fearne into existence and letting me draw hot women 👍✨

[yudol-skorbi]

these sure are....a hell of a bells......

#critical role #sketch #bells hells #fanart #i am tired guys #fearne calloway #chetney pock o'pea #imogen temult #laudna #fcg #dorian storm #ashton greymoore #its almost exactly a year since i watched c1e1 #fucking hell #anyway #i have almost no free time to draw things i want to draw #so here is sketches i did science i started c3 #dorian storm please come back i miss u #imogen was born to admin mlp lore wiki and watch spirit five times a day #forced to experience The Horrors and Save The World Or Destroy It

[synecdoch]

#I know everyone has already drawn this #but I wanted to have fun #style experiment #critical role #imogen temult #critical role art #onyxdoesart