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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 — 34,691 ratings — published 2003
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,906 ratings — published 1949
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,709 ratings — published 2021
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,642 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 — 4,075 ratings — published 2011
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,814 ratings — published 2008
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,385 ratings — published 1964
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,805 ratings — published 2012
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,381 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 — 12,053 ratings — published 2006
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.34 — 324,518 ratings — published 2000
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,430 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 — 2,369 ratings — published 2008
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,230 ratings — published 1928
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,994 ratings — published 2008
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,811 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,673 ratings — published 1997
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,720 ratings — published 1998
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.22 — 273,646 ratings — published 1929
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,924 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 — 6,400 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 — 895 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 — 3,058 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 — 146 ratings — published 2001
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,848 ratings — published 2020
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,073 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 — 2,344 ratings — published 2022
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,022 ratings — published 2011
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,314 ratings — published 2019
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,196 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 — 3,385 ratings — published 2011
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,839 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 — 7,386 ratings — published 2007
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,369 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 — 1,476 ratings — published 1994
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 231,877 ratings — published 1611
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,794 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)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,745 ratings — published 1983
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,569 ratings — published 2010
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,301 ratings — published 1961
Rhetorics of Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.81 — 364 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 — 676 ratings — published 1998
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,370 ratings — published 1981
On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,521 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 — 9,208 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 — 1,269 ratings — published 2009
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literary-analysis)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,999 ratings — published 2004
“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.”
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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.”
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“I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!”
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