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
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Mythologies
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Anatomy of Criticism
How to Read Literature
How Fiction Works
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
S/Z: An Essay
Aspects of the Novel
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
The Theory of the Novel
Alok   Mishra
Literary criticism must venture into the dark streets of the unconscious and the mildly lit subconscious of the characters and the authors. However, it must not ignore the aesthetic and the apparent value of a literary work.
Alok Mishra

Alok   Mishra
It is not enough to present literature as an object of study; it must be introduced as an experience.
Alok Mishra

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