Literary Criticism
36 books
Must-Read 1966
Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag
Must-Read 1957
Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye
Must-Read 1869
Culture and Anarchy
Matthew Arnold
Must-Read 1869
Essays in Criticism
Matthew Arnold
Must-Read 2000
How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom
Must-Read 1978
Illness as Metaphor
Susan Sontag
Must-Read 1977
Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes
Must-Read 1779
Lives of the Poets
Samuel Johnson
Must-Read 1742
Longinus On the Sublime
Longinus
Must-Read 1946
Mimesis
Erich Auerbach
Must-Read 1957
Mythologies
Roland Barthes
Must-Read 1976
Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida
Must-Read 1977
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Must-Read 1978
Orientalism
Edward Said
Must-Read 1536
Poetics
Aristotle
Must-Read 2004
Preface to Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
Must-Read 1984
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin
Must-Read 1968
Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin
Must-Read 1970
S/Z
Roland Barthes
Must-Read 1973
The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom
Must-Read 2018
The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes
Must-Read 1981
The Dialogic Imagination
Mikhail Bakhtin
Must-Read 1982
The Great Code
Northrop Frye
Must-Read 1953
The Mirror and the Lamp
M. H. Abrams
Must-Read 1975
The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
Must-Read 1934
The Sacred Wood
T.S. Eliot
Must-Read 1994
The Western Canon
Harold Bloom
Must-Read 1956
Theory of Literature
René Wellek and Austin Warren
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Must-Read 2025
Tradition and the Individual Talent
T.S. Eliot
Recommended 2000
All About Love
bell hooks
Recommended 1975
Beginnings
Edward Said
Recommended 1994
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
Recommended 1950
The Liberal Imagination
Lionel Trilling
Recommended 1961
The Rhetoric of Fiction
Wayne C. Booth
Recommended 1947
The Well Wrought Urn
Cleanth Brooks
Recommended 1983
The World, the Text, and the Critic
Edward Said