/lit/ - Literature

>>9966547
>>9966613
Thanks a ton. I think I should have added that I am not completely clueless; I know quite a bit of Structuralism for example, a decent amount of Marxism, some New Historicism and post-colonialism too. Speaking of thinkers, I know some Kant, some Marx and some Hegel. However, since I'm not in philosophy, my reading of these people has been limited to secondary texts and textbooks only.
I'm not really worried about things like feminism, queer studies or Post-co theory because they don't really require that much philosophy. It is fields like Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-modernism, Hermeneutics, that really concern me. I feel that it is of no use picking up and anthology of literary theory unless have a solid understanding of western thought through the ages, the things that those guys based their ideas on.
You have made some very helpful suggestions. Could you name some books or authors to help me get started? I'm downloading the Dreyfus lectures, gonna get started on them soon. Any others textbooks I can look up?

BTW, what are the your thoughts on the Oxford Very Short Introduction series? Is it a good idea to get the ones on various thinkers(say, Hegel)?

>>9966633
Very disjointed and sporadic. Would hardly be helpful in forming a comprehensive "whole", which is my aim.

>>9705415
>18
>Stabbed in the face as a kid, now my left pupil is fucked up
>The Fall by Alberto Caymbus
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>>9590469