The pics thread

[unknown]

I'm writing my final paper in my lit theory class on House of Leaves

 

[Einherjar86]

That's awesome. I considered writing my undergraduate thesis on House of Leaves, and sometimes I still wish I'd stuck with it. I'd be interested in reading that when you're done.

 

[unknown]

it should be pretty neat. I'm going to talk about how the house emasculates and robs the men of their masculinity and how this is portrayed in the novel.

there haven't been too many papers on House of Leaves, and as far as I could tell, none even remotely close to what I'm going to be talking about, so it should be fun. I need to read the book again; it's been a couple of years since the last time I read it.

 

[challenge_everything]

Doing a critique on House of Leaves has got to be one of the most pitfall-prone challenges in literature, given that the whole book is basically a homage/satire/inversion of literary criticism in the first place.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Why do you people keep highlighting House in blue?

 

[Blind Guardian]

I wonder the same thing. Ok, the colouring of the word "house" is apparently of importance in this book, but what has that got to do with grammatical reference to said book?

 

[unknown]

because the title has the word "house" in blue, and anywhere it appears in the book, it also appears in blue.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

What the crap

 

[challenge_everything]

That's only the beginning, trust me

 

[unknown]

for vihris, this is what the text looks like inside the book:

more detailed/larger view of a page

 

[skeptik]

I hope you're all aware that that's not even a remotely novel concept.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I have to say, that's extremely fucking silly.

 

[diddykoi6]

what the dick?

 

[unknown]

I hope you're all aware that that's not even a remotely novel concept.

it isn't. and Mark Z. Danielewski openly said in an interview that he has no idea why more authors don't break out of the norm with the presentation and format of their text.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Did it occur to him that it's fucking obnoxious?

 

[challenge_everything]

it actually makes sense in the context of the novel

 

[diddykoi6]

does he have a fucking job?

 

[unknown]

Did it occur to him that it's fucking obnoxious?

it actually makes sense in the context of the novel

for instance, when the plot of the novel is moving down a hallway that narrows, the text may be in a shape of a box that becomes gradually smaller and smaller

 

[-CC-]

for vihris, this is what the text looks like inside the book:

more detailed/larger view of a page

What a load of SHIT

 

[Einherjar86]

The text mimics the sensations/descriptions/emotions (etc.) of the passage. Furthermore, it's supposed to challenge the reader and recreate the elements discussed in the text (i.e. swirling textual passages represent vertigo, narrowing passages represent claustrophobia, etc.). It's all very carefully and meticulously planned by Danielewski. And if you can get by the pretentiousness and frustration, it all comes together wonderfully. I was seriously in a state of mental exhaustion for about a week after reading it.