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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,376 ratings — published 2003
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,353 ratings — published 1949
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,549 ratings — published 2021
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,842 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.34 — 328,275 ratings — published 2000
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,067 ratings — published 1940
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,086 ratings — published 2011
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,490 ratings — published 1961
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,447 ratings — published 1964
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,817 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,724 ratings — published 1988
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,163 ratings — published 2006
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,079 ratings — published 2008
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,865 ratings — published 1942
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,386 ratings — published 2008
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,253 ratings — published 1928
Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 150 ratings — published 2001
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,664 ratings — published 2020
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,738 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,746 ratings — published 1998
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,523 ratings — published 1929
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.08 — 680 ratings — published 1981
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,955 ratings — published 2000
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,443 ratings — published 1975
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 906 ratings — published 2021
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,155 ratings — published 1981
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,528 ratings — published -1800
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,433 ratings — published 2022
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,052 ratings — published 2011
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,368 ratings — published 2019
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,309 ratings — published 2020
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.49 — 3,396 ratings — published 2011
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,893 ratings — published 1942
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,465 ratings — published 2007
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,485 ratings — published 2008
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,481 ratings — published 1994
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 234,878 ratings — published 1611
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,816 ratings — published 2004
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 419 ratings — published 2006
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,772 ratings — published 1983
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,636 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,310 ratings — published 1961
Rhetorics of Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.82 — 372 ratings — published 2008
The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference: An Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.85 — 680 ratings — published 1998
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,437 ratings — published 1981
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,544 ratings — published 1981
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.96 — 357 ratings — published 2003
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,211 ratings — published 1962
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,983 ratings — published -335
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,272 ratings — published 2009
“Anybody gets to ask questions about any fiction-related issues she wants. No question about literature is stupid. You are forbidden to keep yourself from asking a question or making a comment because you fear it will sound obvious or unsophisticated or lame or stupid. Because critical reading and prose fiction are such hard, weird things to try to study, a stupid-seeming comment or question can end up being valuable or even profound.
I am deadly-serious about creating a classroom environment where everyone feels free to ask or speak about anything she wishes. So any student who groans, smirks, mimes machines-gunning or onanism, chortles, eye-rolls, or in any way ridicules some other student's in-class question/comment will be warned once in private and on the second offense will be kicked out of class and flunked, no matter what week it is. If the offender is male, I am also apt to find him off-campus and beat him up.”
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I am deadly-serious about creating a classroom environment where everyone feels free to ask or speak about anything she wishes. So any student who groans, smirks, mimes machines-gunning or onanism, chortles, eye-rolls, or in any way ridicules some other student's in-class question/comment will be warned once in private and on the second offense will be kicked out of class and flunked, no matter what week it is. If the offender is male, I am also apt to find him off-campus and beat him up.”
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“Yeah,” I agreed, “the author just immediately tries to write down as many emotions as possible. Initially, I thought that the method of writing was ineffective, but eventually, I realized how the structure potently manifested her passion for her own thoughts about mental illness and the restrictions of herself and the woman in the yellow wallpaper. First off, the experience-oriented writing was relevant to the conveyance of the author’s ideas, because since the writing was, well, about experiences, the issues the author was addressing appeared to be more based on the reality of society, not a hypothetical model of it, and the issues really were based on the reality of society, since some of the events in the book were actually based on events in the author’s life. Also, the spontaneity and honesty of the writing was an effective choice of the author. I observed that the narrator’s silence in the presence of her husband and her spontaneous and expressive writing were juxtaposed, which emphasized the restrictions the narrator was put in and also her progressive views on mental health and her ability to stay true to herself. Also, this way of writing exemplifies that the narrator had to hold in so much thought because of her restrictions. She wrote without hesitation! In other words, her spontaneous writing and the lack of thematic structure in her writing showed her ability to stay true to her own beliefs.”
― The Reformation
― The Reformation












