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>download a shitload of books on literary theory
>get excited because finally I'm going to understand written word beyond the normie plebeian perspective
>think I'm going to be introduced to theory of poetic rhythm, use of metaphor etc.
>open the pdf
>it's mostly Freudian sexual reductionism, feminist/postcolonialist readings of Shakespeare and Marxist materialist "analysis"
Bloom was right, please don't make my mistake and don't let yourself be memed into literary theory

>> No.17034451

>>17034351
>>it's mostly Freudian sexual reductionism,
Bloom wasn't opposed to this.

>> No.17034456

>>17034351
>Theory
This shit isn't a science faggot, if you want to write you write, the more you read and the more you write the better you get at it. Is this so hard to understand? and don't get me started on the "Revolutionary" Theory fags, fucking theory.

>> No.17034467

>>17034456
Have you never heard of music theory?
To make good art you need to be educated on techniques, otherwise you'll just write your diary or draw elementary school doodles.

>> No.17034468

>>17034351
Get Walter Jackson Bate's "Criticism: The Major Texts". It was published 1952, just a couple years before psychoanalysis and its companions took off.

>> No.17034472

>>17034456
Yeah, painters don't need no anatomy to know how to draw people!

>> No.17034484

>>17034467
Fair, I may have oversimplified, but I was talking about the literary medium, I apologize

>> No.17034851

>>17034472
you learn that from drawing not from theory
t. painter

>> No.17034969

>>17034351
Start analysing every book of Nietzsche,Kant or some other continental philosopher's work before 1950s rigorously (like a mathematical course on logic or real analysis or algebra) and try toying around with their ideas and subject it to realistic constraints of life.In this way Ur writing talent will increase pretty well becoz writing is all about conveying information or ideas in a coherent & consistent way.

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17035486

>>17034351
That's what happens when you read bad theory. And no, Bloom was not right.