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Books on history of literature.
Books to study literature, maybe a chart, a guide, idk.
A book with extensive explanations of all literary movements, etc.

>> No.15525693

>>15525682
Also story of literary criticism, like russian formatism, deconstruction, etc

>> No.15525706

>>15525682
>>15525693
I was thinking about this bc few days ago some anon posted about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_realism and i never hear about it until this anon posted, so i want to get more cultured in this area and be able to know genres, etc

>> No.15525885

bump spell to summon all non-pseuds in this board

>> No.15526004

>>15525682
It's sort of a difficult thing to make a chart for. Most modern opinions on literature are derived from a slightly less extreme version of New Historicism. Greenblatt is usually the best place to start (hope you like the English Renaissance). Don't fall into the meme of reading older criticism - whilst it is often good, it's usually so outdated it's pointless. Even legends in the literary world like Eliot are not really worth reading unless you are interested in critical historicism (which is useful for understanding Eliot more than whatever he was writing about). Maybe this is just the Cambridge in me speaking, but practical criticism is still a thing right? Idk if I.A. Richards is worth reading though lol. A good anthology of theory is probably your best bet from everything to formalism to feminist etc, i remember my teacher in sixth form recommending 'critical theory today' though if i'm honest i've never bought it - have no clue if it's actually good.

Basically stick to whats relevant.

>> No.15526405

>>15525682
Start with Aristotle's Poetics.

>> No.15527313

>>15526405
Then what? I already read it

>> No.15527336

>>15526004
>A good anthology of theory is probably your best bet from everything to formalism to feminist etc
Any suggestion? Maybe books that you read for uni

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15527348

>>15526004
>it's pointless
in whose eyes? academic faggots like pic related?

>Eliot are not really worth reading
wtf is this faggotry, do you read just to keep 'up to date' with what some professor thinks

>> No.15527463

>>15526405
That's a good start then. What you seem to be looking for - sort of a one volume guide to western literature and/or literary criticism - does not seem to exist. Everything is very segregated by language. It is easy to find one for English - say the Short Oxford History of English Literature, but if you want to know about Huysmans and Borges and Kafka, you're out of luck there. As for theory, I didn't find Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory completely terrible when I read it. You don't agree with all his takes, but it's not a bad roadmap for further exploration.

>> No.15527487

>>15527336
Literary Theory: An Anthology by (((Julie Rivkin)))

>> No.15527497

>>15527336
The Norton Anthologies are used to teach beginner English classes in unis. To the uninitiated, they provide a ton of historical context as well as info on their literary references.
One of my favorite series of theirs is the World Literature one. I've discovered a lot of gems with it.

>> No.15527567

Any books on cultural studies?