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10 best books like The Pooh Perplex (Frederick C. Crews): Down With Skool!, Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments, Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, The Literary Guide to the Bible, Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter, Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy, The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview, Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays, The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

Down With Skool!
AuthorGeoffrey Willans
ISBN0006706193
Another foray into the category that is "Books I read as a child". I read this as part of "The Compleet Molesworth" which collects all four Molesworth books into one.

I wonder what a child of today would make of Molesworth? Even when I was growing up, in the 1970s, this 1950s depiction of boarding...
Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
AuthorMichael Dirda
ISBN0393324893
Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher...
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
AuthorJohn Sutherland
ISBN0192834681
In this quirky and intriguing book, John Sutherland has conveniently gathered together thirty-four nagging little questions, puzzles, errors, and enigmas from some of the best-loved examples of Victorian fiction. Readers often have stumbled upon seeming mysteries in their favorite novels....
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0521645840
I LOVED this book. I got it through ILL through my county library, which I've never tried before. C.S.Lewis is characteristically wonderful, and in this book he discusses the La3amon's Brut (Layamon) which I had never heard of before, but it is close to one of the first depictions of the Arthur tale. It...
The Literary Guide to the Bible
AuthorRobert Alter
ISBN0674875311
5. The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter & Frank Kermode
published: 1987
format: 672 page Hardcover
acquired: 2012
read: Jan 2012 – Nov 2015, June 2, 2018 - Jan 23, 2019
time reading: ~50 hr ~4.5 min/page
rating: 4

Contributors: J. P. Fokkelman,...
Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter
AuthorRichard V. Greene
ISBN0812697170
What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another?
Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a...
Stephen Colbert and Philosophy: I Am Philosophy
AuthorAaron Allen Schiller
ISBN0812696611
At the head of The Colbert Report, one of the most popular shows on television, Stephen Colbert is a pop culture phenomenon. More than one million people backed his fake candidacy in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on Facebook, a testament to the particularly rich set of issues and emotions Colbert...
The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview
AuthorGregory Bassham
ISBN0812695887
The Chronicles of Narnia series has entertained millions of readers, both children and adults, since the appearance of the first book in 1950. Here, scholars turn the lens of philosophy on these timeless tales. Engagingly written for a lay audience, these essays consider a wealth of topics centered...
Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays
AuthorColin McGinn
ISBN0060856157
Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays—A Midsummer Night's Dream,...
The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0300167601
"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."

For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers....
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
AuthorRalph C. Wood
ISBN0802829996
Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. Fifty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. For those...
The Philosophy of Literary Form
AuthorKenneth Burke
ISBN0520024834
From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows."  Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and...
Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter
AuthorSeth Lerer
ISBN0226473007
Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter.

The...
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
AuthorPaul De Man
ISBN0300028458

This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust.  The readings start from unresolved difficulties in the critical traditions engendered by these authors, and they return to the...
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
AuthorFredric Jameson
ISBN1859841821
Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the status of history, theory, Marxism, and the...
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion
AuthorJohn D. Caputo
ISBN0253211123
"Caputo's book is riveting.... A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis.... There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work." --Edith Wyschogrod

"No one interested...
The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading
AuthorJohn P. Muller
ISBN0801832934
The Purloined Poe is at once astonishing and frustrating. It is incredible to read Poe's "The Purloined Letter" and then watch how the story unfolds in the hands of critics like psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and deconstructionist Jacques Derrida. I've gone through the experience of reading the short...
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0674931505
The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of Eliot's critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition...
Principles of Literary Criticism
AuthorIvor A. Richards
ISBN0415254027
To us, Richards was infinitely more than a brilliantly new literary critic: he was our guide, our evangelist who revealed to us, in a succession of astounding lightning flashes, the entire expanse of the Modern World: Christopher Isherwood Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern...
After Theory
AuthorTerry Eagleton
ISBN0465017746
As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton ("one of [our] best-known public...
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed
AuthorMary Klages
ISBN0826490735
This Guide for the Perplexed provides an advanced introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to more sophisticated readings. It engages directly with the difficulty many students find intimidating, asking 'What is ''Literary Theory''?'...
The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
AuthorEdward Mendelson
ISBN0375424083
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts—portray the essential experiences of life.

For Edward...
Literary Theory: The Basics
AuthorHans Bertens
درست مطمئن نیستم امتیازی که به این کتاب می‌دهم، چقدر حقیقی است. چون این بار اولی است که کتابی دربارۀ نظریات و نقد ادبی را کامل می‌خوانم؛ همیشه نگاهی به فهرست...
The Novel: A Biography
AuthorMichael Schmidt
ISBN0674724739
The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages;...
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