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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 — 35,008 ratings — published 2003
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,132 ratings — published 1949
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,173 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 4.32 — 2,823 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.34 — 326,278 ratings — published 2002
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,859 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 — 4,082 ratings — published 2011
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,463 ratings — published 1961
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,409 ratings — published 1964
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,809 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,544 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 — 12,110 ratings — published 2006
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,838 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 — 2,374 ratings — published 2008
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,239 ratings — published 1928
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,228 ratings — published 2020
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,041 ratings — published 2008
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,701 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,737 ratings — published 1998
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 277,659 ratings — published 1929
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,938 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 — 6,428 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 — 898 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 — 3,104 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 — 149 ratings — published 2001
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,292 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 — 2,397 ratings — published 2022
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,038 ratings — published 2011
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,345 ratings — published 2019
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,263 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 — 3,387 ratings — published 2011
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,862 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 — 7,431 ratings — published 2007
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,403 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 — 233,796 ratings — published 1611
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,808 ratings — published 2004
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 418 ratings — published 2006
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,752 ratings — published 1983
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,602 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,305 ratings — published 1961
Rhetorics of Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.82 — 368 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 — 678 ratings — published 1998
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,406 ratings — published 1981
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,538 ratings — published 1981
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.96 — 356 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
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 674 ratings — published 1981
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,271 ratings — published 2009
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,025 ratings — published 2004
“I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!”
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“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At best, it begs questions. At worst it is presumptuous and totalitarian, replacing understanding with filing. We have all heard papers where categories are the driving force, according to which the way we understand literature (or whatever) is to work out what title fits where, as if literary theory was a giant card-catalog. Even when the last book has been slotted neatly into the last of the holes that were cut to be filled with books, what we have are books in neat piles. Which is not nothing, but neither is it that much.”
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