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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 — 34,210 ratings — published 2003
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,443 ratings — published 2021
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,326 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,157 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 — 28,101 ratings — published 1940
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,977 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 — 3,323 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 — 4,060 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 — 11,896 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 4.32 — 2,762 ratings — published 2008
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,777 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 3.63 — 2,353 ratings — published 2008
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 265,002 ratings — published 1929
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,873 ratings — published 2008
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,363 ratings — published 1961
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,775 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,628 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,712 ratings — published 1998
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,887 ratings — published 2000
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,341 ratings — published 1975
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,197 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 — 2,971 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 — 142 ratings — published 2001
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 26,949 ratings — published 2020
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 120,075 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 — 2,115 ratings — published 2022
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,991 ratings — published 2011
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,259 ratings — published 2019
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,027 ratings — published 2020
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,773 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 — 7,256 ratings — published 2007
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,222 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 — 1,477 ratings — published 1994
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 228,763 ratings — published 1611
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,760 ratings — published 2004
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 415 ratings — published 2006
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,699 ratings — published 1983
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,493 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,286 ratings — published 1961
Rhetorics of Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.82 — 358 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 — 7,249 ratings — published 1981
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,491 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 — 9,202 ratings — published 1962
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 660 ratings — published 1981
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,266 ratings — published 2009
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,889 ratings — published 2004
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,536 ratings — published 1981
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,948 ratings — published 2003
“I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!”
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“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 IS the significance of the Misfit’s hat?” "To cover his head," I said. He looked crushed then and left me alone." - Flannery O'Connor to Caroline Gordon”
― The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon
― The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon
