Literature Theory Books
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Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,087 ratings — published -335
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,001 ratings — published 1995
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5,966 ratings — published 1973
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,305 ratings — published 2008
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,604 ratings — published 1949
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 7,675 ratings — published 1992
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,996 ratings — published 1927
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,655 ratings — published 1994
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,517 ratings — published 1998
On Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,333 ratings — published 2002
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,450 ratings — published 2003
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 11,962 ratings — published 2006
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,938 ratings — published 1953
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,713 ratings — published 1983
El superhombre de masas: Retórica e ideología en la novela popular (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 343 ratings — published 1976
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 295 ratings — published 1982
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,134 ratings — published 1976
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 876 ratings — published 1954
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 126,848 ratings — published 1929
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,695 ratings — published 2013
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,693 ratings — published 1980
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,363 ratings — published 1940
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,978 ratings — published 1957
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,584 ratings — published 1962
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,206 ratings — published 1962
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 13,205 ratings — published 1947
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,909 ratings — published 1988
Understanding Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 173 ratings — published 1938
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 7,450 ratings — published 1960
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,389 ratings — published 1994
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,795 ratings — published 1942
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,523 ratings — published 2010
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.44 — 5,053 ratings — published 2020
Literature and the Gods (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 479 ratings — published 2001
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,193 ratings — published 1963
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,616 ratings — published 1975
What is Literature? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,619 ratings — published 1948
Reading poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 21 ratings — published 2014
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,945 ratings — published 1934
Shakespeare Our Contemporary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 459 ratings — published 1961
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 593 ratings — published 1971
L'oeil vivant. Corneille, Racine, La Bruyère, Rousseau, Stendhal (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 40 ratings — published 1961
La notion de littérature et autres essais (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.50 — 40 ratings — published 1987
The Life of the Drama (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 77 ratings — published 1963
Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in 'War and Peace' (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 42 ratings — published 1987
How to Read a Poem (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 715 ratings — published 2006
The Craft of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 109 ratings — published 1931
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,766 ratings — published 1973
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 1 time as literature-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,420 ratings — published 1967
Ντοστογιέφσκι: Η ζωή του μέσα από το έργο του (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as literature-theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 1976
