Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions
10 best books like Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions (Samuel Taylor Coleridge): The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Critique of Pure Reason, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Don Juan, The Prelude, A Defence of Poetry, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0141439777 |
No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521657296 |
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1781), 856 pp. 2nd (B) ed: 1787. [A-edition (Ak. 4:5-252); B-edition (Ak. 3:2-552)]. “Critique of Pure Reason.” Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (Macmillan 1929). Translated by Werner Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett 1996). Translated by Paul...
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| ISBN | 0192835807 |
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0451528182 |
Contains the greatest "OH FUCK" moment in medieval literature!
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - listed here as written by Unknown, though I believe it may have been penned by that prolific Greek author Anonymous - is a classic tale from Arthurian legend in which the code of honor attributed...
| Author | Lord Byron |
| ISBN | 0140424520 |
Probably few subjects fitted Byron's particular talents better than Don Juan.
In this rambling, exuberant, conversational poem, the travels of Don Juan are used as a vehicle for some of the most lively and acute commentaries on human societies and behaviour in the language. The manner is...
This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of "The Prelude" was was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poet's death in 1850. In addition the editors include the two-part...
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0199110220 |
This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:
"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
| Author | Mieke Bal |
| ISBN | 0802078060 |
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal...
| Author | Pierre Guyotat |
| ISBN | 1840680628 |
This book is soaked in blood, smeared with shit, stinking of putrefaction and sticky with cum. And it's about innocence.
Innocence is a wild flower blossomed in a mass grave.
Guyotat took part in the Algerian war in 1960, at the age of 20, and started working on "Tomb for 500.000 Soldiers"...
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections...
| Author | Jacques Derrida |
| ISBN | 0226143341 |
"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature...
