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
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
An Experiment in Criticism
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
The Power of Myth
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Tolkien On Fairy-stories
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Pale Fire by Vladimir NabokovEast of Eden by John SteinbeckO conde de Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyA Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Man Carrying Thing
12 books — 1 voter

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
42 books — 6 voters
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 N. McDaniel
Harry Potter Scholarship
26 books — 2 voters

“ I read at Wesleyan last week— “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After the reading, I went to one of their classes to answer questions. There were several young teachers in there and one began by saying, “Miss O’Connor, why was the Misfit’s hat black?” I said most countrymen in Georgia wore black hats. He looked quite disappointed. Then he said, “Miss O’Connor, the Misfit represents Christ, does he not?” “He does not,” says I. He really looked hurt at that. Finally he said, “Well Miss O’Connor, what ...more ”
― Christine Flanagan, The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon

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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