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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 — 34,018 ratings — published 2003
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.53 — 24,869 ratings — published 2021
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,035 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.34 — 318,040 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 — 27,856 ratings — published 1940
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,771 ratings — published 1988
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,292 ratings — published 1964
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,055 ratings — published 2011
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 3.77 — 11,852 ratings — published 2006
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,731 ratings — published 2008
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,760 ratings — published 2012
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 3.64 — 2,339 ratings — published 2008
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 260,539 ratings — published 1929
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,797 ratings — published 2008
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,337 ratings — published 1961
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 3,757 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 4,607 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,694 ratings — published 1998
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6,312 ratings — published 1975
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,184 ratings — published 1928
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,915 ratings — published 1981
Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 141 ratings — published 2001
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 26,566 ratings — published 2020
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,018 ratings — published -2000
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,071 ratings — published 2022
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,977 ratings — published 2011
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,223 ratings — published 2019
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,965 ratings — published 2020
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,746 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 — 7,220 ratings — published 2007
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,166 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 — 1,475 ratings — published 1994
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 227,342 ratings — published 1611
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,746 ratings — published 2004
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 414 ratings — published 2006
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,681 ratings — published 1983
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,465 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,276 ratings — published 1961
Rhetorics of Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.82 — 356 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 — 673 ratings — published 1998
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,205 ratings — published 1981
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,477 ratings — published 1981
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.97 — 358 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 — 9,193 ratings — published 1962
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 656 ratings — published 1981
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,855 ratings — published 2000
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,261 ratings — published 2009
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,824 ratings — published 2004
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,356 ratings — published 1981
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,317 ratings — published 2003
“This classification is applied to the two Homeric epics: the Iliad is simple and based on suffering, the Odyssey is complex and based on character.”
― Poetics
― Poetics
“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.
. . . This does not mean we all have to sit around smiling sweetly at one another for three hours a week. No truths about the form, content, structure, symbolism, theme, or overall artistic quality of any piece of fiction are etched in stone or beyond dispute.”
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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.
. . . This does not mean we all have to sit around smiling sweetly at one another for three hours a week. No truths about the form, content, structure, symbolism, theme, or overall artistic quality of any piece of fiction are etched in stone or beyond dispute.”
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