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Literary Theory Books
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Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,695 ratings — published 1983
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,622 ratings — published 1997
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,758 ratings — published -335
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,262 ratings — published 1957
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,925 ratings — published 1973
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,768 ratings — published 1942
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,987 ratings — published 1995
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,971 ratings — published 1957
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,606 ratings — published 1975
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,900 ratings — published 1970
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 — 4,135 ratings — published 1979
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,667 ratings — published 2013
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,968 ratings — published 1927
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,209 ratings — published 2008
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,490 ratings — published 1916
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,137 ratings — published 2001
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,898 ratings — published 1978
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,531 ratings — published 1955
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,626 ratings — published 1994
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 37 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,342 ratings — published 1967
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,761 ratings — published 1973
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,285 ratings — published 1961
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,529 ratings — published 1991
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,384 ratings — published 1960
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,048 ratings — published 1980
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,458 ratings — published 1970
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,471 ratings — published 1966
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,124 ratings — published 1976
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,881 ratings — published 2000
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,504 ratings — published 1998
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 263,940 ratings — published 1929
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,156 ratings — published 2003
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,925 ratings — published 1967
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,361 ratings — published 1967
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,559 ratings — published 1965
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,614 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,676 ratings — published 1980
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,180 ratings — published 1963
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 530 ratings — published 1979
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,820 ratings — published 1977
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,938 ratings — published 1977
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,917 ratings — published 1953
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 274 ratings — published 1925
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,833 ratings — published 1993
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,194 ratings — published 1928
Literature and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,555 ratings — published 1957
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,679 ratings — published 1977
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,378 ratings — published 1991
After Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,020 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,067 ratings — published 1992
“Imagination and the pure delight in stories drive out fear.”
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“Literary criticism must venture into the dark streets of the unconscious and the mildly lit subconscious of the characters and the authors. However, it must not ignore the aesthetic and the apparent value of a literary work.”
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