Literary Analysis


How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The Power of Myth
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
An Experiment in Criticism
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Morphology of the Folktale
Tolkien On Fairy-stories
Snape by Lorrie KimWizard! by Stephen BrownFrom Here to Hogwarts by Christopher E. BellReading Harry Potter Again by Giselle Liza AnatolHarry Potter for Nerds II by Kathryn McDaniel
Harry Potter Scholarship
26 books — 2 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thug Notes
43 books — 7 voters


Catherine Lowell
I realized that my life of late had consisted of far too much dialogue and not enough exposition. I imagined an angry, bespectacled English teacher slashing his pen through the transcript of my life, wondering how someone could possibly say so much and think so little.
Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs

China Miéville
Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At best, it begs questions. At worst it is presumptuous and totalitarian, replacing understanding with filing. We have all heard papers where categories are the driving force, according to which the way we understand literature (or whatever) is to work out what title fits where, as if literary theory was a giant card-catalog. Even when the last book ha ...more
China Miéville

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