I've recently started to read actual Literature and while i am having a great time, i'd like to know more about the history of things such as Literary Movements, conventions, tropes, and everything related to the History of Literature itself.I'd of course prefer Books that aren't plagued by the Sickness of our age and were written by reasonable men, cover at least all of Europe, is not overly anglo centric, and also not written by some Asian feminist whore from Havard. The books need to at the very least cover 20th century Literary movements like Post-Modernism, so don't post any books written before the 20th century (I'd also like books on Latino American, Asian and Arabic Literature History, that aren't just commie gobbledygook).If at all possible i would also like to get recommendations on Books about Textual Interpretation since i have zero clues on how it actually works, but these don't have to be recent like the History ones, any piece of writing of any age will suffice so long as it's valuable and insightful.
*I'm looking for Books on the History of Literature.Please ignore the typo.
I like how OP's like this are little smug redditors who think to themselves, "Yes, indeed. I am quite intelligent." But then they somehow lack the IQ and technological literacy to do basic background research to find a jumping off point or a reasource on the topic they are interested in. It boggles the mind.
>>25308207i genuinely have a very good recommendation but i'm not going to post it because your tryhard anti-wokeness pissed me off. your loss sucka.
>>25308340What if they're being genuine?
>>25308207I don't think it's that necessary desu, you're better off just reading the books and forming your own opinion. Or read detailed analyses of specific authors (e.g. Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics/Rabelais and His World). Some of the stuff you'll hear thrown around are real movements, like Surrealists and Oulipo, but post-modernism is mostly a buzzword thrown around by academics trying to unify vastly different authors. I encourage you to think about influences and genres instead; who was this author influenced by? who did he influence in turn? what mode is this author writing in?If you still want to dive deep, then you've got the 3000 pages long The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Or if you don't want to make the commitment, you can try individual critics like Frye and Kenner.
>>25308397Thanks for the insight brother. I have more than enough time so i'll probably read through that Norton Anthology. I am aware that the majority of Literary terms and movements are just buzzwords but i would still like to understand it to some degree since i see people use those terms in discussions, thesis and essays. My main issue is that i lack the foundation to make assements such as those you've mentioned in the first place. I know what Genres are foexample and at times an authors influences, but the majority of my understanding comes from Osmosis and my flawed observations and i'd like to have an formal education on the topic. Maybe those insights will just come naturally as i read more but i think i need to re-educate myself and start from scratch.
>>25308321Nowhere in my post did i imply i was more intelligent or above anyone else (I literally stated that i just started reading literature).I just thought i should get opinions from people other than Redditors, Articles and AI crap.But i forgot that this place doesn't have any actual love towards Literature nor reads, this is the board to bitch about women and larp as "Saviors of the West" after reading the Wikipedia article on Thus Spake Zarathusa and watching video essays on "Trad Lit". Next time i'll just stick to Articles.>>25308340If you were that upset by my offhand comment about Asian Harvard Students and Commie Babble than i doubt your recommendation would be to my taste.>>25308366No, he's right, i geniunely was a tryhard in the OP, i agree with him.
>>25308207If you only have time for one book, then I recommend Mimesis by Erich Auerbach.
>>25308459>gets called out for being lazy and dumb>"I th-th-thought this was the b-b-b-b-oard that reads!"Classic cope.
>>25308459Man you're a real house nigger
>>25308459>i doubt your recommendation would be to my tastewell this guy >>25308488 recommended it anyway as i'm in a generous mood: you should also check out picrelated
>>25308207>The Century is a book about politics, philosophy and literature by Alain Badiou, first published in French by Éditions du Seuil in 2005; the English translation by Alberto Toscano was published by Polity Press in 2007 >
