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!@#$%! · 03.01.2011, 03:15 PM

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!

03.01.2011, 03:15 PM	#6
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	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!
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