Literary Criticism

Hi Lainons, what's your fav work of literary criticism you've either read or wrote? I'm a fan of Barthes, Eugene Thacker, and Mark Fisher myself. I just like their style.

I've written two rants, one about proper English and the other about disregarding the canon of fictional works when they take a turn for the worse. I like them.

the tendency to criticize literature through the lens of being instrumental towards some greater teleology is not actually meaningfully semiotic

>>8314 I loved Barthes Mythologies and the work of Walter Benjamin, although I disagree with them I enjoy their work. I'm not sure if you'd consider Derrida and Foucault to be literary critics, but I enjoyed them although Derrida writes a like fuarrrking asshole. I can't say I like Mark Fisher though. I hate his guts. He comes off as a pretentious hack whose takes aren't all that great, his signature concept of capitalist realism feels like he ripped off the Frankfurt School and his whole k punk persona was just insufferable. He's become the idol of naive undergrads and leftoids who like mainstream fake so-called "cyberpunk" soykaf.

>>8422 >He's become the idol of naive undergrads and leftoids who like mainstream fake so-called "cyberpunk" soykaf. This is why i hate the cyberpunk subreddit. go on there and they give you this big list of woke leftist theories and deleuzian crap with a sprinkling of bread tuber soykaf

Capitalist Realism bangs, thinking of reading Society of the Spectacle. Dialogue with Stalin by Amadeo Bordiga too.

>>8421 It's a necessary counterbalance to fashionable "art for art's sake" drivel.

>>8422 I really liked Barthes' Mythologies + Myth Today Have you read Benjamin's Illuminations? I've been meaning to read it, but I want to read Proust first. >>8314 I read Erich Auerbach's Mimesis, which was profoundly impactful.