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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 34,506 ratings — published 2003
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,675 ratings — published 1949
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,122 ratings — published 2021
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.34 — 322,594 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 — 28,434 ratings — published 1940
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,192 ratings — published 1988
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 — 4,070 ratings — published 2011
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,365 ratings — published 1964
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,793 ratings — published 2012
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 — 11,983 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 — 2,799 ratings — published 2008
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,395 ratings — published 1961
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 — 2,359 ratings — published 2008
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,216 ratings — published 1928
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,949 ratings — published 2008
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,800 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 4,654 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,718 ratings — published 1998
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 270,097 ratings — published 1929
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 3,903 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 — 6,374 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 — 883 ratings — published 2021
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,020 ratings — published 1981
Ascent to Love: A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 144 ratings — published 2001
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,457 ratings — published 2020
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,253 ratings — published -1800
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,224 ratings — published 2022
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,016 ratings — published 2011
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,293 ratings — published 2019
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,101 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 — 3,373 ratings — published 2011
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,801 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 — 7,323 ratings — published 2007
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,322 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 — 1,478 ratings — published 1994
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 230,631 ratings — published 1611
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,784 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 — 5,723 ratings — published 1983
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,532 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,298 ratings — published 1961
Rhetorics of Fantasy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 361 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 — 677 ratings — published 1998
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,318 ratings — published 1981
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,507 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 — 9,207 ratings — published 1962
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 665 ratings — published 1981
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,267 ratings — published 2009
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,956 ratings — published 2004
“I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
― The Madwoman Upstairs
“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
