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Literary Criticism Books
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,753 ratings — published 1942
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,452 ratings — published -335
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,607 ratings — published 1994
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,668 ratings — published 1983
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,964 ratings — published 2003
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,965 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,160 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,951 ratings — published 1927
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,124 ratings — published 1979
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,692 ratings — published 1998
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,855 ratings — published 2000
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,586 ratings — published 1978
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,550 ratings — published 1992
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 259,344 ratings — published 1929
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,668 ratings — published 1980
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,472 ratings — published 1955
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,362 ratings — published 1966
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,902 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,599 ratings — published 1997
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,358 ratings — published 1991
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,143 ratings — published 1957
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 24,735 ratings — published 2021
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 80 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,329 ratings — published 1961
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,242 ratings — published 1960
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,058 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,101 ratings — published 1981
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,750 ratings — published 1973
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,605 ratings — published 1975
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,641 ratings — published 2013
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,844 ratings — published 2006
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 871 ratings — published 1954
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,133 ratings — published 2001
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,736 ratings — published 1942
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,290 ratings — published 1964
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,316 ratings — published 2002
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,972 ratings — published 1995
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,302 ratings — published 1975
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,274 ratings — published 1961
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,100 ratings — published 2004
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 59 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,641 ratings — published 1990
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 606 ratings — published 1930
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,726 ratings — published 2008
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 317,354 ratings — published 2000
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 463 ratings — published 1931
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,965 ratings — published 1925
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,805 ratings — published 2004
Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 826 ratings — published 1904
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 484 ratings — published 1950
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,033 ratings — published 1983
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.84 — 954 ratings — published 1957
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible. The civilization we live in at present is a gigantic technological structure, a skyscraper almost high enough to reach the moon. It looks like a single world-wide effort, but it's really a deadlock of rivalries; it looks very impressive, except that it has no genuine human dignity. For all its wonderful machinery, we know it's really a crazy ramshackle building, and at any time may crash around our ears. What the myth tells us is that the Tower of Babel is a work of human imagination, that its main elements are words, and that what will make it collapse is a confusion of tongues. All had originally one language, the myth says. The language is not English or Russian or Chinese or any common ancestor, if there was one. It is the language that makes Shakespeare and Pushkin authentic poets, that gives a social vision to both Lincoln and Gandhi. It never speaks unless we take the time to listen in leisure, and it speaks only in a voice too quiet for panic to hear. And then all it has to tell us, when we look over the edge of our leaning tower, is that we are not getting any nearer heaven, and that it is time to return to earth. [p.98]”
― The Educated Imagination
― The Educated Imagination
“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
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