For a text-focused approach (as opposed to extrinsic approaches), I have decided to read from Chicago School of Literary Theory. I've got the primary resources.Any secondary sources you recommend?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(literature)
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>>23975791I’ve always been interested in actually self-imposing a literary analysis curriculum on myself, as someone who never formally studied outside of high school. Most of my engagement with literary theory and analysis schools has been piecemeal and mostly an attempt to learn about a wide breadth of different methods. It would be fun to dive into one type of school (new criticism, structuralism, Marxist analysis, formalism, etc) super hard and just see where it leads. Anyone have suggestions on what I should go with?
>>23979045I've done it myself, since the answers were non-existent.Get a copy of Literary Theory: An anthology, it covers most stuff (it's a thick book).For my own question, this is what I ended up with:>1. Russian Formalism: Foundations of Formalist ThoughtViktor Shklovsky - Art as Technique (1917), Theory of Prose (1925)Boris Eichenbaum - The Theory of the "Formal Method" (1926), How Gogol’s Overcoat Was MadeYuri Tynianov - On Literary Evolution (1927)Roman Jakobson - The Dominant (1935)Supplementary WorksOsip Brik: The Device as the Basis of ArtLidia Ginzburg: On Psychological Prose>The Prague Circle: Formalism ExpandedRoman Jakobson - Linguistics and PoeticsJan Mukařovský - Aesthetic Function, Norm, and Value as Social Facts (1936), The Word and Verbal Art: Selected EssaysRené Wellek and Austin Warren - Theory of Literature (1949)>Structuralism: Formalism Meets SystemsFerdinand de Saussure - Course in General Linguistics (1916)Claude Lévi-Strauss - Structural Anthropology (1958)Roland Barthes - Mythologies (1957), S/Z (1970)Tzvetan Todorov - Introduction to Poetics (1968)Gérard Genette - Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (1972)>Chicago SchoolAristotle - Poetics, RhetoricRonald S. Crane, The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry (1953), Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern (1952) Wayne C. Booth - The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), A Rhetoric of Irony (1974):Elder Olson - Aristotelian Criticism and Imagination (1975), Tragedy and the Theory of Drama (1961)Richard McKeon - Literary Criticism and the Concept of Genre (1966), On Knowing: The Natural Sciences, Humanities, and the Social Sciences (1960)Additional Recommended ReadingsGeorge Watson (Editor) - The Literary Critics: A Study of English Descriptive Criticism (1962):Richard P. Adams - The Greater Tragedies of Shakespeare (1960):
