30 Best

Literary Criticism Books

1

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

2

The Gifts of Reading

3

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

4

The Origin of Others

5

The Hatred of Poetry

6

The Weird and the Eerie

7

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

8

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

9

Why Poetry

10

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us

11

Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

12

The Story of Kullervo

13

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

14

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

15

Literary Theory: An Introduction

16

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

17

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

18

Poetics

19

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

20

Aspects of the Novel

21

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

22

How Fiction Works

23

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

24

Anatomy of Criticism

25

How to Read and Why

26

Orientalism

27

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

28

Lectures on Literature

29

A Room of One's Own