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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,542 ratings — published 2003
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,919 ratings — published 2021
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,577 ratings — published 1949
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,857 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.34 — 330,226 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 — 29,298 ratings — published 1940
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,232 ratings — published 2006
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,885 ratings — published 1942
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,483 ratings — published 1964
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,822 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,933 ratings — published 1988
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 — 4,090 ratings — published 2011
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,274 ratings — published 1928
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,118 ratings — published 2008
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,521 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 — 2,397 ratings — published 2008
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 — 28,975 ratings — published 2020
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,772 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,753 ratings — published 1998
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 286,590 ratings — published 1929
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 683 ratings — published 1981
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,972 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 — 6,469 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 — 907 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 — 3,221 ratings — published 1981
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,338,802 ratings — published 1954
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 125,555 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 — 2,466 ratings — published 2022
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,065 ratings — published 2011
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,395 ratings — published 2019
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,331 ratings — published 2020
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,574,015 ratings — published 1897
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 3,398 ratings — published 2011
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,914 ratings — published 1942
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,510 ratings — published 2007
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,567 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 — 1,485 ratings — published 1994
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 236,193 ratings — published 1611
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,828 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)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,785 ratings — published 1983
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,656 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,316 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 — 7,474 ratings — published 1981
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,552 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
“I realized that my life of late had consisted of far too much dialogue and not enough exposition. I imagined an angry, bespectacled English teacher slashing his pen through the transcript of my life, wondering how someone could possibly say so much and think so little.”
― 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
