Literary Theory

[Anonymous No.12615820]

Have any of you read much into theory?
What are some good books that maybe take a philosophical approach to literature?

I know that a lot of theory can be ideological, but surely there is something of merit there. I've read some short introductions to theory, but I'm unsure where to start reading actual theory.

[Anonymous No.12615828]

Stain on writing

[Anonymous No.12615844]

>>12615820
The original painting made sense because a pipe is not the representation of a pipe.
A pepe however, has no existence outside of its (protean) representation. So it is, most definitely, a pepe.

[Anonymous No.12615870]

>>12615820
Northrop Frye’s book, Fearful Symmetry (on William Blake)
Mikhail Bakhtin’s Problems Of Dostoevsky’s Poetics

[Anonymous No.12616790]

>>12615820
>I know that a lot of theory can be ideological
There's a difference between "literary" theory and cultural theory. The former is concerned with the production of texts and meaning, it just so happens that texts are the product of specific cultural conditions, so you can't really have the one without the other. One of my tutors published a fantastic intro to lit theory, I highly recommend it

[Anonymous No.12616804]

>>12616790
Not Op but thank you

[Anonymous No.12616826]

Most literary theory is half baked crap stolen from philosophers. Most of the time it isn't even the interesting stuff (because people in the literature departments have no idea how to do philosophy).

[Anonymous No.12616834]

>>12616826
yikes, evidently you've never been in a lit seminar

[Anonymous No.12616850]

>>12615820
Anon, I’m not even joking: you can literally skip all of it.
t. English Degree Holder