Theory of Literature
8 best books like Theory of Literature (René Wellek): The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Poetics, The Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why?, A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, S/Z: An Essay, How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 1573225142 |
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list-it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140446362 |
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...
The Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why?
| Author | Gary L. Thomas |
| ISBN | 1434704890 |
What if you stopped looking for a “soul mate” and started looking for a “sole mate”—someone who will live out with you the great purpose of God? What if dating isn’t about finding “the one” but making a wise choice so you can better serve the One who loves you most? What if God didn’t...
| Author | Richard Jenkyns |
| ISBN | 0199276617 |
Jane Austen's work was a true triumph of the comic spirit--of deep comedy, rising from the heart of human life. In A Fine Brush on Ivory, Richard Jenkyns takes us on an amiable tour of Austen's fictional world, opening a window on some of the great works of world literature.
Focusing largely on Pride...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0195112210 |
Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521670 |
I must be honest this was a re-read for me. Barthes's works were pre-eminent when I was navigating my way through university. So encouraged were we to embrace this 'enfant terrible' that I very nearly wrote my PhD on his ideas (in the end it had to be Poe!). Looking back now though there is no doubt that 'The...
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
| Author | Thomas C. Foster |
| ISBN | 0061340405 |
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing...
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0805202412 |
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...
