Lit Theory

[Anonymous No.18891688]

Any recommendations for brushing up on theory and lit criticism?

[Anonymous No.18891716]

Why "brushing up"? Do you have previous experience with it? What are your interests?

[Anonymous No.18891730]

I used to be into ”lit theory” and critical theory but it’s just cringe bullshit

Read actual philosophers (Heidegger, Kant, Schelling, Aristotle, Nietzsche) who contributed with insights into literature/the creation of meaning and ”classical”/rhetorical criticism (Longinus, Curtius, Frye) instead

[Anonymous No.18891732]

aristotle poetics

[Anonymous No.18891737]

>>18891730
>lit theory is cringe
>therefore, read lit theory such as Aristotle, Nietzsche, Longinus, Curtius, Frye)
?

[Anonymous No.18891745]

>>18891716
I have a BA in English Literature, but like a foreign language I've lost a fair bit of knowledge over there years. I'm even willing to say I outright need to revisit some basics. Just wondering if there are any good sources or if sifting through Wiki will suffice.

[Anonymous No.18891750]

>>18891730
I'll give these a go. Appreciate the recs.

[Anonymous No.18891765]

>>18891745
Yesterday I recced some stuff that I guess might be basic enough >>18886262
I got myself a collection "English Critical Texts" (ed. Enright and Chickera) which has many smaller texts that I mention there, it's really neat.

[Anonymous No.18891791]

>>18891737
They don’t primarily present ”theoretical matrixes” to read literature, like for example Moi, Eco, Karatani, Jameson, Eagleton, Russian Formalists do

Rhetorical studies are also very different from what ”theories” to do with literature

[Anonymous No.18892088]

>>18891730
>>18891688
I second Northrop Frye, I read the Anatomy of Criticism and The Great Code and they're both superb. Bloom was a big fan and student of his too.

[Anonymous No.18892104]

Hello fellow western canonittes

[Anonymous No.18892122]

>>18891688
"No!"

[Anonymous No.18892177]

>>18891688

[Anonymous No.18892214]

Lit theory and criticism is trash. If you really want to be well versed in theory and criticism then you'd need to read feminist theory, post colonialism, race theory, Marxism, and all the other trash modern theories. And the only reason you'd ever read that stuff is so you can sound smart to others or to think of yourself as smart.

[Anonymous No.18892242]

>>18892177
I still haven't gleaned what makes this guy interesting other than his ethnonarcissistic preference of Cervantes over Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.18892245]

>>18892214
Then just avoid those parts that you don't like? Not even scholars are truly well-versed in the areas they don't really care about.