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Why Literature Is Bad for You is a semi-non fictional book authored by English Professor Peter Thorpe, discussing many stories based on his own experiences of the detrimental effects literature can have in the wrong mindset. The book is divided Into five sections: Seven Types of Immaturity.Consisting of... "Growing Down With the Victorian Novel: The Transformation of Barbara Tieterman" "How Literary Folk Thrive on Crisis" "The Fine Art of Uncooperation" "Fate and Determinism as Cop-Outs" "Turning Self-Knowledge into Self-Centeredness" "How Literature Gives Us the Lust for Revenge" "Learning to Hate the Older Generation" Seven Avenues to Unawareness.Consisting of... "Misunderstanding Motivation" "The Art of Categorizing Individuals and Oversimplifying Human Nature" "What's True of Me Is True of Everybody: How Literature Makes Us Project" "How Literature Separates Us from Our Feelings" "How Reading Makes Us Lazy" "Our High Toleration of Incompetence" "The Virgin and the Crowbar: Increasing our Hostility" Five Avenues to Unhappiness.Consisting of... "Does Literature Cause Insanity?" "Getting Hung Up on the Past" "Traveling in the Realms of Gold: Does Literature Make Us Materialistic?" "Being Naive about Ingratitude" "How to Get Ulcers from the Great Books" Four Ways to Decrease Our Mental Powers.Consisting of... "The Misuse of Opinion" "The Misuse of Memory" "The Misuse of Evidence" "The Misuse of Ideas" Four Ways of Failing to Communicate.Consisting of... "Why We Distort the Language" "Why We Write Badly" "Why We Gossip" "Does Literature Cause Censorship?" | |
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Opinion Flip Flop: "The Misuse of Ideas" opens with an anecdote about a professor who started out preaching determinism, then in the next year slid all the way down the Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate to existentialism. The author uses him as an example of someone in the arts who believes that ideas have no consequences, when in fact an idea is much more far-reaching. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: As a whole, the book talks about how many people in English departments reflect the traits of the characters and stories they read — it's just that, according to the book, they tend to reflect the worst parts. | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong: The preface talks about how attempts to educate using art have actually been detrimental in the long run. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: The book is less about literature being bad in itself so much as the bad effects it can cause on its readers. What the book encourages is not abolishing literature, but taking a closer, harder look at our beliefs about literature and art in general to see what effects they really have on us. | |
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Insufferable Genius | |
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Insufferable Genius / Took A Level In Jerk Ass: "Growing Down with the Victorian Novel: The Transformation of Barbara Tieterman" discusses how the eponymous woman became a literary genius in college, but also became so obsessive about literature (particularly Victorian era literature about unstable relationships) that it destroyed her relationship with her husband and turned her into a nasty, obsessive sociopath who willingly had an abortion just because she didn't want raising a child to interfere with her work! | |
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Mad Artist: Discussed in "Does Literature Cause Insanity?" The author believes it does. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Discussed in "How Reading Makes Us Lazy." The argument is that reading gives us the illusion of having done something without really doing anything at all. | |
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You Watch Too Much X | |
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You Watch Too Much X: Essentially, this book is telling academics that they've exposed themselves to too much art. | |
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Poe's Law/Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Discussed in the preface. | |
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Most Writers Are Writers | |
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Most Writers Are Writers: Another mark against authors in "How Literature Makes Us Project." | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing: invoked"The Fine Art of Uncooperation" discusses this and how reading can encourage stubborn attitudes, usually for the sake of just being different than for any rational reason. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: Quoted as an analogy at the end of "Growing Down with the Victorian Novel"; | |
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You Can't Fight Fate | |
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You Can't Fight Fate: Discussed in "Fate and Determinism as Cop-Outs." Thorpe is not a fan of this trope and states that many people use it an excuse from responsibility. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: Discussed in "Getting Hung Up on the Past". Since literature always draws on the past for form and inspiration, Thorpe argues it has a tendency to install a nostalgia filter on people who spend too much time reading. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality: As described above, art has a way of glorifying its subject and making it seem better than it actually is, regardless of how morally good it might be. | |
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Measuring the Marigolds | |
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Measuring the Marigolds: Discussed in "The Art of Categorizing Individuals and Oversimplifying Human Nature," which essentially argues that spending too much time with characters, rather than real people, tends to make people want to put real human beings into types or tropes. | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: Discussed in "How Literature Gives Us the Lust for Revenge," using The Merchant of Venice as an example of how Violence Really Is the Answer. | |
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Failure Hero | |
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Failure Hero: In "Our High Toleration of Incompetence," Thorpe argues that overexposure to this trope leads to people accepting incompetence as a way of life. He goes on to point out how Achilles, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn, and others all made significant mistakes in some way, and how literature often bases itself on someone screwing something up. | |
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Nervous Wreck | |
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Nervous Wreck: Thorpe claims that literature has a tendency to encourage this, claiming "a successful work of art is an eloquent display of anxious concern." He then goes on to talk about a Shakespeare scholar he knew who was a Real Life example of this trope. | |
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Motive Misidentification | |
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Motive Misidentification: Discussed in "Misunderstanding Motivation." That is, literature tempts people to give others motives that make sense, when they might actually have no rational motive at all. | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
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Small Reference Pools: The opposite of this is addressed and a wide body of literature is referenced, such as The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, Beowulf, Paradise Lost, "To His Coy Mistress", "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", "The Second Coming", Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Way of the World, Tom Jones, The Scarlet Letter, Madame Bovary, the King James Bible, and essays by Montaigne, Johnson, Emerson, and Thoreau, but not in a good way. The book talks about how wide exposure to all of the "great books" can actually be detrimental in the long run. | |
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Satire: This book may actually be a deep-cover satire of the idea that art is worth doing and studying for its own sake. Satire and comedy were two of Peter Thorpe's academic specialties, and he cites Juvenal often. | |
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Gossipy Hens: In "Why We Gossip," the author theorizes that since literature is essentially peering into other characters' private lives, it tends to turn literature students into these. | |
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The Paranoiac | |
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The Paranoiac: Only one of many ways studying too much literature can drive someone nuts, according to the book. | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: "Growing Down with the Victorian Novel: The Transformation of Barbara Tieterman" and "Turning Self-Knowledge Into Self-Centeredness" discusses how literature can turn people into narcissistic personalities. | |
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True Love Is Boring | |
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True Love Is Boring: In "Growing Down with the Victorian Novel," the author believes that the pervasiveness of this trope discourages artistic people from forming committed relationships. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The author makes it clear that the stories included are technically fictional, but are based on actual experiences he's had with people and the detrimental effects literature has had on them. | |
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Determinator: Deconstructed in "The Fine Art of Uncooperation," as the book argues that too much exposure to this trope turns people into those "who go around looking for something to disagree with." | |
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True Art Is Angsty | |
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True Art Is Angsty: invokedCriticized in the preface and skewered throughout the book, on the grounds that angsty works tend to make the people who over-consume them even angstier. | |
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