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I want to "read theory". Where do I start?

>> No.14328284

with the greeks

>> No.14328294

>>14328275
They don't have a theory. It's just a bunch of rambling idiots using difficult words in order to impress you.

They are only taken seriously in literature departments, but not by writers. Great writers don't take 'theory' seriously.

>> No.14328296

>>14328275
With the gays

>> No.14328480 [DELETED] 

>>14328275
spics are so ugly

>> No.14328488

>>14328294
This. Fuck reading. If your convictions are so weak you need some long dead schizo to reaffirm everything you say you believe you should go back to your hole.

>> No.14328528

who whom's theory?

>> No.14329468

>>14328294
>he doesn't realize most of the great writers have essays contributing to theory

>> No.14329495

>>14329468
No, they really don't.

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>>14328275
Infinite Jest

>> No.14329516

>>14329468
kill yourself effeminate cuck

>> No.14329520

>>14329495
/lit/ was perfectly fine with reading most theory until the meme came around.

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>> No.14329545

>>14328294
that's bullshit. this board is garbage.

>> No.14329550

>>14328488
It's the other way around. Your convictions are so weak you are afraid to find that some long dead schizo thought about it before, and debated it a million times.

>> No.14329551

>>14328275
Hobbes

>> No.14329575

>>14329516
butterfly...i fought for you....... i defended your honor........... this is how you repay me :(((

>> No.14329582

Read SIEGE.

>> No.14329642

Hobbes

>> No.14329648

>>14329512
>creepy dolls
>fake oscar
>beat to shit copy of Infinite Jest
>messy room
she has the brain of a teenager

>> No.14329655

Tbh I'd start with Nietzsche and research backwards and forwards around him, moving to Marx and postmodernism

>> No.14329666

People are reading culture of critique

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>read theory

>> No.14329683

Redpilled theory:
The Republic
The Prince
Second Discourse on Inequality
On the Geneology of Morality
Theses on Feuerbach
The German Ideology
After Virtue
Minima Moralia
The Culture of Narcissism

>> No.14329803

>>14329550
Witness the retardation of the leftist mind hahaha

>> No.14329820

>>14329648
Its not her room

>> No.14330497

>>14328275
It'd be easier to recommend writers if you could specify the subject of theory you're most in reading; however, most introductory courses on theory and criticism seem to begin with Formalism (and/or New Criticism specifically), with maybe a brief overview of hermeneutics and phenomenology. From there, classes usually cover Semiotics and Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, and Marxism before diving headlong into Post Structuralism (and Deconstruction) and the /lit/ bogeymen Cultural Studies and Feminist, Queer, Postcolonial, and Race theories. But I've seen classes start far earlier with Plato, Aristotle, and Horace; Hume, Kant, and Burke. Generally, an anthology of theory and criticism will include all of this and more. Norton's is the best I've handled; though, Rivkin and Ryan's is also good.