/lit/ - Literature

>>12982586
Op here because I'm drunk and want to keep this thread alive: the best way to learn literary theory is to read it. Terry Eagleton gives a good introduction in his book but, honestly, start with the Greeks holds true insofar as you ought to deal with the books of the Republic dealing with poets before dealing with any other Western book. Outside of the Western Tradition is prickly because non-Western forms of literature must either be defined with a comprehensive, self-conscious knowledge of the Western canon an at least a semi-comprehensive, self-conscious knowledge of the background to the precolonial work