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The educated imagination Northrop Frye · 1963 · ★ 4.1 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Moderate In the 1962 Massey Lectures, Northrop Frye writes: "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us to think more clearly or feel more sensitively or live a better life than we would without it? What is the function of the teacher and scholar or the person who calls himself, as I do, a literary critic? What difference does the study of literature make in our social or political or… Shares Literary Theory, Criticism, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

An Experiment in Criticism C. S. Lewis · 1961 · ★ 4.2 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Moderate "Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism is traditionally employed in judging books, and 'bad taste' is thought of as a taste for bad books. Professor Lewis' experiment consists in… Shares Criticism, Books and Reading, Literary Criticism

George Bernard Shaw Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1909 · ★ 3.7 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him." -- G. K. C. Shares Literary Criticism, Literature, Nonfiction

History of American Literature Reuben Post Halleck · 1911 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The wide use of the author's History of English Literature, the favor with which it has been received in all parts of the United States, and the number of earnest requests for a History of American Literature on the same plan, have led to the writing of this book. It has not appeared sooner because the author has followed his rule of making a careful first-hand study, not only of all the matter… Shares Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

Shadows Numberless Adam Fieled · 2005 · 10p · ≈ 20m · Light Shadows Numberless: Four Collections Of Critical Material by Adam Fieled encompasses two centuries of poetry and literature. Portions have appeared in Jacket Magazine, The Argotist Online, Tears in the Fence, and elsewhere. [1]: https://archive.org/stream/shadowsNumberlessFourCollectionsOfCriticalMaterialByAdamFieled/ShadowsNumberless#page/n0/mode/2up Shares Literary Theory, Literary Criticism

Disturb the Universe Adam Fieled · 2005 · 10p · ≈ 20m · Light "In "*Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled*", we see a young poet wrestling with old problems: how to move forward and conserve simultaneously, how to form coherent judgments regarding what will endure and what will not, how to, as Eliot wrote in *Four Quartets*, purify the dialect of the tribe. These essays are bold stabs in search of new directions, which push the envelope… Shares Literary Theory, Literary Criticism

Essays Matthew Arnold · 1865 · ★ 4.5 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Criticism, History and criticism, Literature with this book.

Critical Writing On Adam Fieled Philly Free School · 2006 · 7p · ≈ 14m · Light *Critical Writing On Adam Fieled* collects critical pieces on the work of American writer Adam Fieled, composed and published between 2006 and 2012 in venues like moria poetry and Galatea Resurrects, by poet/critics Jeffrey Side, Laura Goldstein, Steve Halle, Stacy Blair, and more. Shares Literary Theory, Literary Criticism

Literary criticism William Wordsworth · 1905 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Criticism, Literary Criticism, History and criticism, Literature with this book.

Changing my mind Zadie Smith · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.Split into four sections—"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness… Shares Literary Criticism, History and criticism, Literature, Nonfiction

The Pooh Perplex Frederick C. Crews · 1963 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modeled on the "casebooks" often used in freshman English classes at the time, The Pooh Perplex contains twelve essays written in different critical voices, complete with… Shares Criticism, Books and Reading, Literary Criticism, History and criticism

Routledge Revivals

Routledge Revivals A. J. Arberry · 2016 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Literary Criticism, History and criticism with this book.

A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory Raman Selden · 1985 · ★ 3.7 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate xii, 244p. : 22cm Shares Criticism, Literary Criticism, History and criticism, Literature

The Great Derangement Amitav Ghosh · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme… Shares Literatur, Literary Criticism, Literature

The Bill of Rights in Modern America David J. Bodenhamer · 1993 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Literatur, Literary Criticism, History and criticism with this book.

Practical criticism I. A. Richards · 1929 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Practical Criticism, as conceived by Richards, pays attention to very small units of language in short lyric poems in a way that leads directly to the New Critics' emphasis on 'the poem in itself', and their associated rejection of the analysis of any kind of historical or political context. Shares Criticism, Literary Criticism, History and criticism, Literature

Biographia literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known… Shares Criticism, History and criticism, Literature, Nonfiction

The Book of Household Management Isabella Beeton · 1861 · 1139p · ≈ 37h · Demanding "No home is complete without this classic guide to cookery and home management. The ideal gift book, it contains hundreds of recipes, full menus and hints for cooks. Beeton's Book of Household Management also provides a fascinating insight into the domestic life of the Victorian housewife, with instructions on housekeeping and managing servants, along with astute advice on childrearing. It is no… Shares Literatur, Criticism, Literature

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