/litcrit/ - Literary Theory and Criticism

If you want some theory from successful novelists, I liked these:

The Art of the Novel by Kundera

For a New Novel by Robbe-Grillet

Aspects of the Novel by Forster

Lectures on Literature by Nabokov

>>9403943
I've read bits and pieces of Forster's essays but never anything from Aspects of the Novel so I'm likely to check it out. I'm not a huge fan of Kundera and I've heard some hot opinions from Nabokov; do you think those would still be worth reading?

>>9403924
definitely Auden, probably Wyndham Lewis and TE Hulme/Read

Baudelaire might balance Gautier, maybe pick up Asti Hustvedt's The Decadent Reader.

>>9403924
Just get the Norton and go from there

>>9403988
Hm, my brother has a couple Lewis books that I'll have to borrow. How much does his fascism impact his aesthetic philosophy though? I've also heard TE Hulme's name thrown about.
>>9404090
I have the norton, I thought too much of it was spent on postmodern lit crit, I'm looking for a more traditional base of understanding right now. They have stuff like Poetics which is handy but then other stuff like Sidney's Defence, which I didn't particularly care for. I know it's important but it's not quite what I'm looking for.

>>9404150
>How much does his fascism impact his aesthetic philosophy though?
His political commentary's out there, but he's more Victorian than fascist. It's a bit like Pound or Eliot, you could read a lot of their shit and never come across the Praise Hitler quotes. I mentioned him because he kind of closes off the dying days of Victoriana, and Hulme likewise opens up the end of that era into modernism. Lewis is fucking harsh on late Victorian shit, and his aesthetics on that shit is the kind of caustic you feel bad for even if you agree with it at times. It's not fascist driven, but if he'd hated antifascists like he'd hated the end of the Victorian era, Hitler might have won.

>>9404677
Okay cool, I'm a big fan of the late Victorian novels so that sounds like a nice fit. Thanks man.