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Literary Criticism Books
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,812 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,674 ratings — published 1994
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,739 ratings — published 1983
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,385 ratings — published -335
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,983 ratings — published 1957
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 — 34,651 ratings — published 2003
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,362 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,012 ratings — published 1927
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,171 ratings — published 1979
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,721 ratings — published 1998
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,739 ratings — published 1978
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,919 ratings — published 2000
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,713 ratings — published 1992
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 272,502 ratings — published 1929
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,700 ratings — published 1980
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,638 ratings — published 1955
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,707 ratings — published 1966
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,015 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,669 ratings — published 1997
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,454 ratings — published 1991
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,535 ratings — published 2021
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,470 ratings — published 1957
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 82 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,424 ratings — published 1961
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,502 ratings — published 1960
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,772 ratings — published 1973
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,100 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,140 ratings — published 1981
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,717 ratings — published 2013
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,620 ratings — published 1975
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 3.78 — 12,044 ratings — published 2006
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,373 ratings — published 1964
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,829 ratings — published 1942
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 879 ratings — published 1954
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,144 ratings — published 2001
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,345 ratings — published 2002
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,020 ratings — published 1995
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
by (shelved 62 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,388 ratings — published 1975
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,706 ratings — published 1990
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,111 ratings — published 2004
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,301 ratings — published 1961
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,007 ratings — published 1925
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 323,940 ratings — published 2000
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 613 ratings — published 1930
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 466 ratings — published 1931
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,808 ratings — published 2008
Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 839 ratings — published 1904
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,980 ratings — published 2004
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,067 ratings — published 1983
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 491 ratings — published 1950
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 968 ratings — published 1957
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]”
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[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]”
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“It is not enough to present literature as an object of study; it must be introduced as an experience.”
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