Want to get into Literary Theory, where should I start? Which

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maybe, I don't know

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>>9039193
Beware of reading any "anthology" or "introduction" that goes through every different theory because it will inevitably be extremely biased depending on which theory the author himself ascribes to. Just take OPs pic for example. Terry Eagleton is a well know Marxist and so his perspectives on other theories will probably be skewed.

Anyway, pic related is a good starting point since it doesn't get bogged down in all the different theories.

>>9039193
Start with the Greeks obviously.

start with gaddamer

>>9039193
polish structuralism t.b.h.

>>9039193
Paul Fry's free lecture course + associated reading

>>9039193
>Hermenuetics
>Reader Response
>Deconstructionism

>>9040393
came here to post this.

>>9040619
I second this. Here's the lecture series for your convenience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY4CTSQ8nY&list=PLD00D35CBC75941BD

>>9039193

Begin with understanding how Socrates-Plato excluded all the poets from his Republic except for Homer and how almost every poet tried to bring them back until the twentieth century came and fucked eveything up and now we had the russian formalists and have postmodernism and postpostmodernism-

The Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism and The Critical Trdiction by David Richter helped me a lot.