#modern American literature

[netscapenavigator-official]

So glad I’m taking Modern American Literature this semester. It’s opened my eyes to a whole new world.

That world being that of STEM Major. I can’t take this shit anymore.

#modern American literature #literautre #college class #college #stem #college major #college majors #mal #break down

[daisyundone]

Felt so cool and pretentious checking out a Faulkner novel at the library today (it’s 4 class and beautiful but a perspective shift every chapter ???)

#william faulkner #literature #modern american literature

[dreamy-conceit]

Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they’re jumping.

This is what we’ve done: We’ve tried to find ways to get them to stop jumping. Convince them that burning alive is better than leaving when the shit gets too hot for them to take. We’ve boarded up windows and made better nets to catch them, found more convincing ways to tell them not to jump. They’re making the decision that it’s better to be dead and gone than to be alive in what we have here, this life, the one we made for them, the one they’ve inherited.

— Tommy Orange, 'There There'

#on the violence of silence and the privilege of culture #poverty #class #native american history and identity #quotes #fiction #modern american literature

[newvision]

— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

#zimmerman my love #Bob Dylan #modern times #when the deal goes down #literature #dark academia #aesthetic #books #poetry #light academia #academia #dark academia style #dark academia aesthetic #litblr #American literature #lyrics #music #🌧

[lilithsorchid]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

#the secret history #donna tartt #a little life #hanya yanagihara #dark academia #literature #light academia #classic academia #modern classics #book recommendations #book excerpt #book quotes #books #quotes #romanticism #dark academia blog #dark academia books #american literature

[bones-ivy-breath]

Inward by Yung Pueblo

#inward #yung pueblo #quote #typography #diego perez #literature #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #celestial #the self #bodymind #stars #modern poetry #south american poets

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Ah yes, the two reasons to write: making your crush notice you and getting the hell away from Lord Byron.

*checks closet and under the bed for Byron*

Ok, we're good guys! Feel free to keep writing!

#books #literature #classic literature #british literature #american literature #dracula #moby dick #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #mary shelley #bram stoker #herman melville #nathaniel hawthorne #lord byron #books & libraries #books and reading #books and novels

[the-cricket-chirps]

N.C. Wyeth, Black Spruce Ledge (Lobstering Off Black Spruce Ledge), 1939

N.C. Wyeth, ‘Our lives depended upon our helmsman,’ illustration from The Bounty Trilogy (Nordhoff & Hall) Wyeth Edition, 1952

#nc wyeth #american art #american artist #american illustrators #book illustration #american painter #american painting #seascape #ocean view #sea aesthetic #ocean aesthetic #aesthetic #beauty #boats #boating #small boats #american literature #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr

[literaryruin]

… for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.

- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

#literature #literature quotes #english literature #aesthetic #novel #prose #american literature #classic literature #modern classics #madame bovary #gustave kervern

[byronicist]

"I came into this world already scarred by loss on both sides of my family. My Indigenous side; my European side. My father and my mother were the kind of damaged people who should never have had children. But of course, they had me, and so my first language was loss."

Deborah Miranda, When Coyote Knocks on the Door (2021)

#quotes #literature #lit #poetry #spilled ink #modern literature #poets of color #native literature #indigenous literature #native authors #native writers #women authors #women writers #queer authors #queer writers #indigenous writers #indigenous authors #indigenous women #native american literature #deborah miranda #american literature

[a-book-is-a-garden]

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”

- John Steinbeck, “East of Eden”

#East of Eden #John Steinbeck #Quote #Novel #Literature #Modernism #Realism #American #20th Century

[accuratetokillamockingbirdquotes]

[Finch Family groupchat]

Scout: HDOSHWIWB

Atticus: What is that?

Scout: a keyboard smash

Atticus: And how do I do that?

Jem: Just press any button lol

Atticus: 7

#modern au atticus b like #atticus finch #modern au #funny #incorrect quotes #jem finch #scout finch #tkam #to kill a mockingbird #american #books #classics #memes #book memes #haha #incorrect book quotes #jean louise finch #jokes #literature #literature memes #classic books #dill harris #family #groupchat #dad #boomers #technology #keyboard smash #laughter #internet language

[alienejj]

thrifted bookish haul 4/mar/24

A novel, a short story anthology, a printed candle in the shape of an apple and a peculiar bookmark:

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The Story; Love, Loss and the Lives of Women short stories chosen by Victoria Hislop.

You've no idea the emotions I emoted, the internal scream I screamt when I saw that cloth bookmark in the design of a prayer rug. I had seen those kinds of bookmarks in aesthetic book pics on Pinterest and had no idea where to get them so coming across one in a charity shop, still in its plastic cover, was incredible.

#books #dark academia #reading #literature #academia #lit #light academia #bookblr #booklr #nejj bookblr #book haul #book reccs #book recommendations #thrifted books #african american literature #book blog #fiction #short story anthology #modern classics #photography

[andrumedus]

i cry because i’m human and i’m connected and there is immense sadness in the world. i cry because humanity is frightening. because one person consumed with self-hatred and armed with one gun can kill an entire room of people. i cry because shame propels so many of us. i cry because so many people forget how important it is to cry, are made to feel weak when they do. i cry because i want to close my eyes to the world. i cry because i can’t.

Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across; “God Damn You, Sarah McLachlan”

#literature #poetry #mary lambert #shame is an ocean i swim across #mourn with the moon #modernity has failed us #american lit #m #x

[newvision]

Joan Didion, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem

#joan Didion #slouching towards bethlehem #literature #books #poetry #litblr #literary #literature quotes #modern literature #american literature #english literature #literature excerpt #book blog #book excerpt

[historybetweenthepages]

E. E. Cummings – Crepuscule (I Will Wade Out)

XLI Poems, 1925

#history #vintage #literature #writing #modernism #poetry #book #modern poetry #ee cummings #crepuscule #xli poems #1920s #1925 #poetry book #american poetry #experimental poetry #twentieth century #twentieth century history #twentieth century poetry #american history #first edition #portrait