Literary Analysis


How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The Power of Myth
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
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
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
A Room of One’s Own
Tolkien On Fairy-stories
An Experiment in Criticism
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 McDaniel
Harry Potter Scholarship
26 books — 2 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

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

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