Where do I start with literary criticism??

Don't. It's all cultural marxism.

>>8766928
Aristotle's Poetics, Freud on the Interpretation of Dreams, Barthes Mythologies, Burke on the Sublime, Benjamin on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, Heidegger's Poetry Language Thought, the essays of Pound and Eliot

The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism

>>8766936
I've read Poetics, and Work of art in the age of Mechanical production (but from a specifically art perspective). Will look into the others

>>8766928
The Western Canon.

>>8766980
>:(

>>8766936
>Aristotle's Poetics
This should give you plenty to chew on.

Pound also gets right to the point, like Aristotle did. Both very "fundamental."

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>>8766936
>Benjamin on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction