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Literary Theory Books
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Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,739 ratings — published 1983
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,669 ratings — published 1997
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,385 ratings — published -335
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,015 ratings — published 1973
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,471 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,812 ratings — published 1942
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,020 ratings — published 1995
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,983 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,362 ratings — published 2008
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,717 ratings — published 2013
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,620 ratings — published 1975
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,922 ratings — published 1970
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,510 ratings — published 1916
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,171 ratings — published 1979
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,012 ratings — published 1927
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,144 ratings — published 2001
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,739 ratings — published 1978
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,638 ratings — published 1955
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,674 ratings — published 1994
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 40 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,464 ratings — published 1967
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,772 ratings — published 1973
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,574 ratings — published 1991
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,502 ratings — published 1960
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,919 ratings — published 2000
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,123 ratings — published 1980
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,485 ratings — published 1970
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,301 ratings — published 1961
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,707 ratings — published 1966
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,139 ratings — published 1976
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,383 ratings — published 1967
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 272,509 ratings — published 1929
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,651 ratings — published 2003
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,713 ratings — published 1992
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,522 ratings — published 1998
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,700 ratings — published 1980
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,943 ratings — published 1967
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,577 ratings — published 1965
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,199 ratings — published 1963
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,823 ratings — published 1977
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 541 ratings — published 1979
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,949 ratings — published 1953
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,227 ratings — published 1928
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,387 ratings — published 1977
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,684 ratings — published 1977
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 909 ratings — published 1960
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 276 ratings — published 1925
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,905 ratings — published 1993
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,166 ratings — published 1981
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,100 ratings — published 1992
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,771 ratings — published 2016
“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we notice that any emphasis on shape or structure or pattern or form always throws a verbal narrative in the direction we call mythical rather than historical.(p.21)”
― Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
― Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.”
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