I want to learn about literature itself, what defines literature, what literature excludes, and so on.
Is pic related a good place to start my journey?
>derrida
stop
>>7468123
Start with Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric
>>7468131
Will do! Will any translation do?
>>7468131
aristotle was a hack and the poetics is the worst thing to happen to western civilization
>>7468123
read "Lectures on Literature Vladimir Nabokov" also his lectures on Russian literature. both books are great.
If the author self-identifies as a "feminist" or "theorist" or "genderqueer" or "deconstructionalist" or "lacanian" or "marxist" just avoid them entirely.
>>7468131
>start with the greeks
nice
>>7468123
I read this and a book by Steven Lynn called Texts & Contexts. If you're really visual and need examples of criticism schools, I would use Lynn, this is more dry but still good for serious introduction into lit theory
>>7468156
I've seen the Lynn before. Now I know why. :) Will definitely check it out. Thank you.
>>7468166
>It has been highly influential throughout Western history.
did you have a point or an objection or did you just drop by to point obvious shit?
>>7468169
What should I object to when you don't have an argument?
>>7468177
>doesn't know you can object to assertions
>modern /lit/
so you just wanted to drop by to point out obvious shit then, that's cool.
>>7468166
Could you provide an ISBN? I can't seem to find that edition online. (My google-fu is weak.)
>>7468195
http://book4you.org/book/2456030/586400
http://book4you.org/book/2455972/ae5263
pdf/epub
Meant Oxford. Sorry.
>>7468198
you're doing the same thing you're accusing me of, you realize.
>>7468205
No worries! Thanks for the source and clarification.
>>7468227
No problem.
