Nobel prize in litterature to Bob Dylan

[iolo]

Well, if that were true of Dillon, it would bear out my worst notions of the degeneration of 'English' as a subject as a result of post-modernism and other anti-critical blights. At least they never nominated his namesake.

Shakespeare invented lots of words he thought English needed. That hardly "degenerated" English. Rather the opposite.

Learn to read more accurately: ''English' as a subject'. Some people were taught it in school and even took it to Ph. D. level, and as far as I know none of them ever sank to Dillon.

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According to WaPo, Dylan didn't take his name from Dylan Thomas: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2a45d109e03_story.html?utm_term=.7e022243f7ff

Neither did Dillon Thomas. He was desperate not to sound 'Welsh' as he slobbered at English posteriors.

 

[OLDMAN]

I think they are straining the definition of literature.

Just like when they give out the Noble Peace Prize...

 

[DrZoidberg]

Shakespeare invented lots of words he thought English needed. That hardly "degenerated" English. Rather the opposite.

Learn to read more accurately: ''English' as a subject'. Some people were taught it in school and even took it to Ph. D. level, and as far as I know none of them ever sank to Dillon.

Aha... I see. I do think you may have a point

 

[iolo]

Learn to read more accurately: ''English' as a subject'. Some people were taught it in school and even took it to Ph. D. level, and as far as I know none of them ever sank to Dillon.

Aha... I see. I do think you may have a point

Ta.

 

[jab]

So what do you guys think about Bob Dylan getting the Nobel prize for litterature?

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37643621

Even though I hate Bob Dylan. Really not my cup of tea. I think it's great. I hate that the image of fine art usually is art as we did it "in the olden days". Great that the Nobel committee is looking a bit wider, than just print media.

And to those who don't know, the Nobel literature prize isn't a popularity contest. It's not even who is the best. The prize is awarded for innovation. It's coming up with a new useful use of language in prose or poetry.

Grotesque. I could forgive his stealing the name of the famous Irish rhetorician Dillon Thomas, but nobody, surely, has ever heard a word of the bugger's high-whine songs?

Yeah, that Dylan Thomas wrote real literature
And don't forget previous Noble prize winners for litterature: Rudyard "The White Man's burden") Kipling, Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck, Winston (routine historybooks) Churchill.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Grotesque. I could forgive his stealing the name of the famous Irish rhetorician Dillon Thomas, but nobody, surely, has ever heard a word of the bugger's high-whine songs?

Yeah, that Dylan Thomas wrote real literature
And don't forget previous Noble prize winners for litterature: Rudyard "The White Man's burden") Kipling, Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck, Winston (routine historybooks) Churchill.

Kipling won with an incredibly boring motivation

Prize motivation: "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"

That told me nothing.

 

[jab]

Yeah, that Dylan Thomas wrote real literature
And don't forget previous Noble prize winners for litterature: Rudyard "The White Man's burden") Kipling, Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck, Winston (routine historybooks) Churchill.

Kipling won with an incredibly boring motivation

Prize motivation: "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author"

That told me nothing.

look at "virility" again--Kipling was valued at the time for being a "manly man", in contrast to, say, Oscar Wilde.