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If you had to pick a critical/literary theory to marry, which would it be?

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>> No.1443612

Let's try to not turn this into a "baw no one even understands Lacan he sux" thread. I'd like to know what theory /lit/ is into, if at all.

>> No.1443615

omfg just kill yourself already

>> No.1443619

I liek neo-marxist criticism

>> No.1443630

>>1443615
Go back to your fantasy books. This thread is too deep for you.

>> No.1443636

I was thinking Foucault, because he was not back looking when he had hair and I bet he'd be a hot bottom what with all his power talk, but I wouldn't want to get HIV.

>> No.1443644

>>1443636
> obsessed with power
> has gay s&m
> consciously spread AIDS
yeah no thanks

>> No.1443648

>>1443612
I'd go with Lacanian stuff. But NOT Lacan. The guy's too showy.

>> No.1443664

Anarchism.

"Her name is Anarchy and she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did!"
- V

>> No.1443666

>>1443648
OP here. Yeah, I'd completely agree. I'm not exactly sure his style is entirely successful, even if you want to argue that his style mimicks the unconscious hurr durr etc. His core ideas are genius and I'd say rather simple.

>> No.1443670

Critical theory makes me want to burn things.

>> No.1443678

Call me old-fashioned, but I still like the ol' Freudian-Marxist way of doing things.

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>>1443678
Ain't nutting wrong wit dat.

>> No.1443704

>>1443678
Same here

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1443706

phenomenology all up in this

>> No.1443721

deconstruction I suppose

>> No.1443759

You know, I read alot of books, but I don't really read books about books. I've read Harold Bloom on Shakespeare and Zizek sometimes analyzes literature, but other than that I realize I have a pretty shallow knowledge of literary theory.

Is there a book that goes through the history of literary theory the same way a history of philosophy might? An overview of major thinkers and schools?

>> No.1443767

pure aestheticism, everything else is just mental masturbation by people who think they know a writer or can know him from his writing

>> No.1443772
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Guy Debord

>> No.1443778

>>1443759

Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory - Bennett & Royle

>> No.1443799

>>1443759

Not a book, but Yale offers a free set of lectures from their Introduction to Theory of Literature course you might be interested in.

http://oyc.yale.edu/english/introduction-to-theory-of-literature

>> No.1443814

>>1443799
>>1443778

thanks guys

>> No.1443828

Verne~

>> No.1443829

>>1443814
Get the book in the syllabus of that course.

>> No.1443840

New Criticism

>> No.1443912

>>1443840
I've always felt new criticism borders on nihilism.. the process seems very disconnected

>> No.1444892

Harold Bloom influence-aestheticism up in dis bitch!

>> No.1444898

Anything other than deconstructionism.

>> No.1444946

inb4 objectivism

>> No.1445636

/lit/ doesn't know what a "theory" is

>> No.1445647

>>1445636
Oh I know this one!

Evolution is JUST a theory.

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1445673

>critical/literary theory
yeah no thx

>> No.1445685

>>1445673
just did a quick google on this guy. he sounds like a retard

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>>1445685

>> No.1445710

>>1445694
i hope that's not your favourite prof from college and you just regurgitate all his opinions all over /lit/

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>>1445710

>> No.1445747
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"Literary theory is a glass-bead game whose reward for the ludic player is the knowledge that once he masters it, he will be thought by his peers to be ludicrous"
-Gore Vidal

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>>1445747
>Gore Vidal

>> No.1445773

>>1445747
same thing with acquiring any form of knowledge at an advanced level

vidal was a literary theorist, btw

>> No.1445790

Probably none of them, I mean I'm straight and Judith Butler isn't so...

>> No.1446225

early frankfurt school stuff, back when horkheimer respected empiricism

>> No.1446648

>>1443759

It only covers the last 100 years or so, but it's a great collection: Literary Theory: An Anthology by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.

As for me, I like structualists and post-structualists.

>> No.1446664

Post-Structuralism, probably.
Foucault rockin' your shit.