Peder
Well-Known Member
Heteronym, I've read very little in either category you describe, despite seeing the books on the shelves and being aware of some of them. It sounds like a useful distinction that you make, but I wonder if in fact I may even less interested in literary criticism than you are. Actually the one useful book I did read was by an 'outsider.' It was a survey of the branches (schools?) of literary criticism and at least gave me a nodding knowledge of some of the terminology used and the issues of interest. I can't say it has changed my reading much, but I know I now have a greater appreciation for the place of Edward Said's Orientalism in post-colonial criticism, for example, in addition to it itself being an absorbing polemic to read.