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Literary Theory Books
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Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,615 ratings — published 1983
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,540 ratings — published 1997
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,873 ratings — published -335
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,808 ratings — published 1973
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,924 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,713 ratings — published 1942
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,939 ratings — published 1995
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,950 ratings — published 1957
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,591 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 — 4,077 ratings — published 1979
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,880 ratings — published 1970
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,600 ratings — published 2013
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,903 ratings — published 1927
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,026 ratings — published 2008
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,454 ratings — published 1916
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,353 ratings — published 1955
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,921 ratings — published 1978
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,126 ratings — published 2001
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,574 ratings — published 1994
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 37 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,148 ratings — published 1967
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,728 ratings — published 1973
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,265 ratings — published 1961
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,475 ratings — published 1991
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,113 ratings — published 1960
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,428 ratings — published 1970
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,150 ratings — published 1966
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,099 ratings — published 1976
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,922 ratings — published 1980
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 251,570 ratings — published 1929
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,900 ratings — published 1967
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,314 ratings — published 1967
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,432 ratings — published 1992
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,489 ratings — published 1998
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,622 ratings — published 1980
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 — 33,558 ratings — published 2003
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,818 ratings — published 2000
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,526 ratings — published 1965
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,149 ratings — published 1963
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,801 ratings — published 1977
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 514 ratings — published 1979
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,702 ratings — published 1993
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,368 ratings — published 1977
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,882 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 — 1,504 ratings — published 1957
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 268 ratings — published 1925
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,153 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 — 3,298 ratings — published 1991
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 869 ratings — published 1954
“The Formalist school represents an abortive idealism applied to the question of art. The Formalists show a fast ripening religiousness. They are followers of Saint John. They believe that "In the beginning was the Word." But we believe that in the beginning was the deed. The word followed, as its phonetic shadow.”
― Literature and Revolution
― Literature and Revolution
“A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.”
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