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Literary Theory Books
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Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,604 ratings — published 1983
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,514 ratings — published 1997
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,720 ratings — published -335
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,785 ratings — published 1973
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,878 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,704 ratings — published 1942
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,930 ratings — published 1995
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,949 ratings — published 1957
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,586 ratings — published 1975
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 — 4,070 ratings — published 1979
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,875 ratings — published 1970
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,889 ratings — published 1927
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,001 ratings — published 2008
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,589 ratings — published 2013
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,446 ratings — published 1916
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,778 ratings — published 1978
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,123 ratings — published 2001
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,324 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 — 3,567 ratings — published 1994
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 37 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,116 ratings — published 1967
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,724 ratings — published 1973
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,261 ratings — published 1961
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,470 ratings — published 1991
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,097 ratings — published 1960
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,420 ratings — published 1970
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,916 ratings — published 1980
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,097 ratings — published 1976
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,896 ratings — published 1967
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,303 ratings — published 1967
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,409 ratings — published 1992
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 249,789 ratings — published 1929
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,091 ratings — published 1966
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 — 33,419 ratings — published 2003
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,806 ratings — published 2000
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,527 ratings — published 1965
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,489 ratings — published 1998
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,616 ratings — published 1980
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,143 ratings — published 1963
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,799 ratings — published 1977
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 510 ratings — published 1979
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,689 ratings — published 1993
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,280 ratings — published 1977
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,876 ratings — published 1953
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,669 ratings — published 1977
Literature and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,503 ratings — published 1957
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 269 ratings — published 1925
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,145 ratings — published 1928
After Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,012 ratings — published 2003
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,282 ratings — published 1991
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,004 ratings — published 1992
“A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity--he is continually in for--and filling some other Body--The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute--the poet has none; no identity--he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures. If then he has no self, and if I am a Poet, where is the Wonder that I should say I would write no more?”
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“More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence. Technical solidity is not attained without at least some persistence. The chief cause of false writing is economic. Many writers need or want money. These writers could be cured by an application of banknotes. The next cause is the desire men have to tell what they don't know, or to pass off an emptiness for a fullness. They are discontented with what they have to say and want to make a pint of comprehension fill up a gallon of verbiage. An author having a very small amount of true contents can make it the basis of formal and durable mastery, provided he neither inflates nor falsifies [...] The plenum of letters is not bounded by primaeval exclusivity functioning against any kind of human being or talent, but only against false coiners, men who will not dip their metal in the acid of known or accessible fact.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
