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I'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 Thought

Viktor Shklovsky - Art as Technique (1917), Theory of Prose (1925)
Boris Eichenbaum - The Theory of the "Formal Method" (1926), How Gogol’s Overcoat Was Made
Yuri Tynianov - On Literary Evolution (1927)
Roman Jakobson - The Dominant (1935)

Supplementary Works
Osip Brik: The Device as the Basis of Art
Lidia Ginzburg: On Psychological Prose

>The Prague Circle: Formalism Expanded

Roman Jakobson - Linguistics and Poetics
Jan Mukařovský - Aesthetic Function, Norm, and Value as Social Facts (1936), The Word and Verbal Art: Selected Essays
René Wellek and Austin Warren - Theory of Literature (1949)

>Structuralism: Formalism Meets Systems
Ferdinand 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 School
Aristotle - Poetics, Rhetoric
Ronald 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 Readings
George Watson (Editor) - The Literary Critics: A Study of English Descriptive Criticism (1962):
Richard P. Adams - The Greater Tragedies of Shakespeare (1960):

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