/lit/ - Literature

My own.

Not the answer you were looking for? Well, just spin a roulette wheel of French names. It doesn't matter.

Evolutionary Psychology

>wrong
'cause it does matter, pleb

Literary marxism.

I am a man who sleeps.

>>2413484
good catch on the screencap.

marxists should be killed

breivik showed the way

>>2413494
marxism is pretty reductionist and petty, but has good things to say about the fetishism of the object and the objectification of the person.

Deconstruction

Psychoanalysis all damn day.
>evolutionary psychology
oh you mean man grunt he want sex women need babby death by unga bunga?

>>2413508
says the psychoanalyst? psychoanalysm is as much about sex as is darwinian economics

Post-colonialism as applied only to 16th and 17th century poetry.

>>2413513
psychoanalysis is more about desire than sex...evolutionary psychology is all about procreation which doesn't account for much

>>2413508

>2012
>still thinks psychoanalysis is an empirical science

>>2413522
>implying I think that
It's not..it's just a very interesting perspective..watch the pervert's guide to cinema, for instance, or read ''Beyond The Pleasure Principle''...hell, freud himself was a great writer...

Fuck all literary theory. Shit sucks, especially marxist theory. I read that shit as me and with me own damn experiences.

Stylistics and New Formalism/New Criticism

>>2413529
you might also like:
>reader response theory

but seriously, there's no such thing as a non-theory reading

>>2413531
FInally. Someone who makes sense.

>>2413522

>>2413536
hey fella

>>2413531
Snorecore. New criticism is boring

>>2413546
>Snorecore.

>>2413546
bah. you're a deconstructionist, right?

>>2413549
Equally as boring. Unless some dingleberry prof is making me read under some oddly specific guise, I read for aesthetics and response

>>2413554
aesthetics is more snorey than new criticism

my favourite critical theory is Critical Theory?

>>2413559
so this is interesting. for those of you who don't have a favorite theory or think that theory is its own thing, how do you approach a text? methodically? haphazardly? just interested

>>2413575

>not knowing what Critical Theory is but starting a thread about it

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

>>2413583
oh come on. critical theory as applied to /lit/. don't be an ass

>>2413606

i come from a philosophy background so i didn't know the word was used in different contexts like that. i guess i wait for the text to tell me something. you can't force it or you end up being one of those guys who tries to find a metaphor in everything. often there is, but it has to seep out first, that's my experience anyway. then i grab it and fit it into some wider economic/social/historical/sexual/etc. context.

>>2413625
no harm, foul etc. but yeah, as a philosophy major, you'd probably be interested in the lineage of different literary theories.

>>2413633

yeah i've read a lot of Said and a bit of Eagleton but that's about it. i find when i learn the frameworks of theories i stop caring about textual analysis and want to apply it to the world.

inb4 some deconstructionfag saying there isn't a difference

>>2413648

>inb4 some deconstructionfag saying there isn't a difference

hah

>>2413665
>deconstructionfag saying there isn't a difference
>saying there isn't a difference
>isn't a difference
>Différance
c wat u did ther

>>2413679
AH! Goodness.

neuropsychology

>>2413689
give me one example of literary criticism based on neuropsychology..please..i mean, holden caufield needs SSRIs, sure, but...

this thread needs more text-based theory

The inherent existential nihilism of Ihab Hassan's theories on postmodernism. I attended a lecture he held a couple years ago on the role of nationalism in an increasingly postmodern world. After he gave the speech he just sat down with this incredibly apathetic look on his face and stared off into space for the rest of the lecturers.

>>2413705

this table of differences is really interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihab_Hassan

Steven Moore and William H. Gass
more critics than theorists but w/e

What in the niggershit is going on in this thread?

Good God in Heaven, pull the stick out of your ass /lit/

>>2413749
why don't you go back to reading GRRM

>>2413717

Kinda stings that his Wikipedia article is so short. The man literally invented the term "postmodernism."

A query: Do you all think that fiction and literature precede critical thought, or the inverse? for example: do Nabokov and Gaddis, as authors precede the understanding of metafiction and write in the style? Or is their style a natural extension of criticism already in place?

>>2413794

Literature and theory evolve from their sociocultural surroundings. They evolve simultaneously, though theory is usually only defined after some fiction has been written. We only identify theory in retrospect, never while it's happening.

>>2413822
>We only identify theory in retrospect, never while it's happening.
i disagree. theory is very hyper-aware of itself