Literary Theory

Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.[1] However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social prophecy, and other interdisciplinary themes which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning. In humanities in modern academia, the latter style of scholarship is an outgrowth of critical theory and is often called simply "theory." As a consequence, t ...more

Literary Theory: An Introduction
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Poetics
The Pleasure of the Text
Mythologies
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Anatomy of Criticism
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
How Fiction Works
S/Z: An Essay
How to Read Literature
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Aspects of the Novel
The Theory of the Novel
The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry CastleThe Safe Sea of Women by Bonnie ZimmermanChloe Plus Olivia by Lillian FadermanLesbian Texts and Contexts by Karla JaySurpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman
Lesbian Literary Criticism
51 books — 6 voters
Ethereal by Phillip BainbridgeSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumThe Consolation of Philosophy by BoethiusPhilosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenThe Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu
books with ‘philosophy’ in title
253 books — 26 voters

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by John CluteArchaeologies of the Future by Fredric JamesonCritical Theory and Science Fiction by Carl Howard FreedmanThe Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of by Thomas M. DischThe Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.
Science Fiction Criticism
138 books — 25 voters
Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiTechnological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiHuman Diversity by Charles MurrayThe Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein
Sober Provocations and Perspectives
107 books — 36 voters

Arthur Schopenhauer
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays

Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq
Objects possess no charm or ugliness of their own; it is the person we are with that either turns a desert into a garden or makes the finest day feel dull.
Muhammad Ijaz Ul Haq

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