articles on literature
 

anyone have a credible site for articles on literature(Kafka).....I'd like to get some commentary from someone credible.

Do you attend a university? Ebscohost? jstor?

there's only two databases. this school kind of sucks.

Do you have access to JSTOR?

oh shit.

just noticed jstor.

nevermidn. haha

Most critics are caca, but a great critic is a beacon of light an understanding.

Lemme throw a few books at you:

Erich Auerbach. Mimesis.

George Steiner. Language & Silence

"Tears" Eliot. Tradition and the Individual Talent.

Georges Bataille. Literature and Evil.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lectures on Literature

Friedrich Schlegel. Atheneum Fragments

E.A. Poe. The Poetic Principle

Leo Tolstoy. What is Art?

Roman Jakobson - [don't have a title for you here, but there's a great article with Levi-Strauss about Baudelaire's "Les Chats"]

Roland Barthes. The Pleasure of the Text

Ezra Pound. The ABC of Reading

Susan Sontag. Against Interpretation

that is a random list i just pulled out of my ass. there is a shit-ton more to explore and people will recommend different things. but those i have enjoyed even if some are obsolete: pleasure is never obsolete. I can't find much post-1970s to recommend as most gets lost in total wankery and the clear-headed stuff like James Fenton's The Strength of Poetry ends up being too basic-- but maybe you wanna start basic.

but in spite of what i just said, on Kafka, this book is brilliant:

Deleuze and Guattari. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. <<-- that!

^ ooh

I"m actually curretnyl readin a book by Vladimir Nobokov
Invitiation to a beheading.

Books about a specific book: crap.
Books about litterature in general: fine, if you're a critic, or a student who has to write a thesis about that, i guess.

i like books about specific sentences.

Any specific ones?

Spoiler alert: he may or may not die at the end.

Raymond Chandlers piece The Simple Art of Murder
http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlit...andlerart.html

should I interpret this as it's a vague-ass ending?

^ I've already said too much.