31 Best

Criticism Books

1

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

2

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

3

The Hatred of Poetry

4

Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

5

The Weird and the Eerie

6

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

7

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

8

The Story of Kullervo

9

Punto d'ombra

10

Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays

11

The Art of X-Ray Reading

12

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

13

What We See When We Read

14

The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

15

Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week

16

Literary Theory: An Introduction

17

A Room of One's Own

18

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

19

Anatomy of Criticism

20

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

21

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

22

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

23

Orientalism

24

Mythologies

25

Ways of Seeing

26

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

27

Aspects of the Novel

28

How Fiction Works

29

Poetics

30

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination