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>when I was younger
>"Lol the curtains were just red, who cares, why am I being told to find subjective conclusions and being judged as if they're objective?!"

>When I was older and smarter
>"The curtains were red for a very intelligent reason by the genius author, a reason which gives maximum insight in to human nature and the objectivity of aesthetics, not that I will dare ask why I should care about those or why everything is so obscurantist!"

>when I reached my final form

Literary Theory, as it is practised and as a whole is a set of intentionally vague, contradictory, and ever changing rules that create a logical system used by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex in order to monopolise the judgement of art, secure government funding, compete in the form of social posturing (by far the strongest reason), promote a large government, and guilt trip insecure members of the public in to paying for and proclaiming enjoyment of art.

>inb4 you say "I don't know art but I know what I like" in a non RP accent

I'm not even passing judgement on the "value" of this dominant version of "literary theory". I'm simply awaiting the butthurt that will inevitably commence just from pointing out that other forms can exist and not genuflecting towards the dominant form.

>> No.8877077

literary theory is a bunch of retarded crap made up so that english profs can feel like their field is as specialized and inscrutable to outsiders as the sciences.

>> No.8878187

>>8877065
dont get me wrong i hate my professor / advisor as much as anyone else and think he's kinda fulla crap. but derrida was entertaining for a while. so were frye and trilling and sometimes barthes

>> No.8878195

Whoa...so this the power of the Playstation 4...

>> No.8878209

I reckon that's your third strike, "Academia-media-publishing industrial complex" added to my filters.

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>>8877065
YOU POSTED A FROG SO YOU'RE WRONG. PAY ATTENTION TO ME

>> No.8878792

>>8878187
Sure, but if you take Barthes too far you'll end up blinding yourself to the nuances of period art.

The death of the author, is also the death of the reason for publishing.

>> No.8879651

>Sontag
interpreting the color of the curtains is self-serving; allow the detail to interact with the rest of the work and yourself

>> No.8879658

>>8879651
thanks for bumping this killer thread, champ