Literary Analysis


How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The Power of Myth
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
A Room of One’s Own
Tolkien On Fairy-stories
An Experiment in Criticism
Snape by Lorrie KimWizard! by Stephen BrownFrom Here to Hogwarts by Christopher E. BellReading Harry Potter Again by Giselle Liza AnatolHarry Potter for Nerds II by Kathryn McDaniel
Harry Potter Scholarship
26 books — 2 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thug Notes
42 books — 6 voters


David Foster Wallace
Anybody gets to ask questions about any fiction-related issues she wants. No question about literature is stupid. You are forbidden to keep yourself from asking a question or making a comment because you fear it will sound obvious or unsophisticated or lame or stupid. Because critical reading and prose fiction are such hard, weird things to try to study, a stupid-seeming comment or question can end up being valuable or even profound. I am deadly-serious about creating a classroom environment w ...more
David Foster Wallace

Lily King
I would want kids to talk and write about how the book makes them feel, what it reminded them of, if it changed their thoughts about anything. I’d have them keep a journal and have them freewrite after they read each assignment. What did this make you think about? That’s what I’d want to know. I think you could get some really original ideas that way, not the old regurgitated ones like man versus nature. Just shoot me if I ever assign anyone an essay about man versus nature. Questions like that ...more
Lily King, Writers & Lovers

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