Criticism

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
Poetics
Poetics
  • Aristotle
  • James Hutton (Translator)
3.7453 reads
#3
Gothic
Gothic
  • Fred Botting
42 reads
#4
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
  • George Lakoff
  • Mark Turner
31 read
#5
Literary Theory : An Introduction
Literary Theory : An Introduction
  • Terry Eagleton
3.8215 reads
#6
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
  • Northrop Frye
42 reads
#7
Singular voices: American poetry today
Singular voices: American poetry today
    41 read
    #8
    The lifetime reading plan
    The lifetime reading plan
    • Clifton Fadiman
    43 reads
    #9
    Glass, Irony, and God
    Glass, Irony, and God
    • Anne Carson
    4.369 reads
    #10
    Against Interpretation
    Against Interpretation
    • Susan Sontag
    3.825 reads
    #11
    What is literature?
    What is literature?
    • Jean-Paul Sartre
    31 read
    #12
    The Pleasure of the Text
    The Pleasure of the Text
    • Roland Barthes
    48 reads
    #13
    The Shape of Content
    The Shape of Content
    • Ben Shahn
    44 reads
    #14
    ABC of Reading
    ABC of Reading
    • Ezra Pound
    36 reads
    #15
    Cover 3

    Eaten Alive!

    Eaten Alive!: Italian Cannibal and Zombie Movies
    • Jay Slater
    31 read
    #16
    Danse Macabre
    Danse Macabre
    • Stephen King
    3.4661 reads
    #17
    Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
    Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
    • Mark Zwonitzer
    • Charles Hirshberg
    41 read
    #18
    Cover 4

    I'd Rather Be The Devil

    I'd Rather Be The Devil
    • Stephen Calt
    51 read
    #19
    Cover 2

    New York Is Now!

    New York Is Now!: The New Wave of Free Jazz
    • Phil Freeman
    41 read
    #20
    True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
    True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
    • David Mamet
    3.52 reads
    #21
    Cover 0

    Reading Their World

    Reading Their World: The Young Adult Novel in the Classroom
    • Virginia Monseau
    31 read
    #22
    The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession
    The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession
    • Jim Burke
    41 read
    #23
    Cover 8

    Jamming the Media

    Jamming the Media: A Citizen's Guide Reclaiming the Tools of Communication
    • Gareth Branwyn
    41 read
    #24
    Bambi vs. Godzilla
    Bambi vs. Godzilla
    • David Mamet
    32 reads
    #25
    Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
    Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
    • David Lynch
    3.7350 reads
    #26
    Hitchcock
    Hitchcock
    • François Truffaut
    4.5420 reads
    #27
    Cover 7

    Orphan Factory

    Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs
    • Charles Simic
    41 read
    #28
    Cover 8

    Eclipse of Symbolism

    Eclipse of Symbolism
    • Peter Fingesten
    01 read
    #29
    Cover 2

    Stockhausen - Conversations with the Composer

    Stockhausen - Conversations with the Composer
    • Jonathan Cott
    51 read
    #30
    The Birth of Tragedy
    The Birth of Tragedy
    • Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
    3.8227 reads
    #31
    Cover 2

    Damned

    Damned: An Illustrated History of the Devil
    • Robert Muchembled
    31 read
    #32
    How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
    How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
    • John Fahey
    3.52 reads
    #33
    A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
    A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
    • Virginia Woolf
    3.99173 reads
    #34
    The Devil's Dictionary
    The Devil's Dictionary
    • Ambrose Bierce
    46 reads
    #35
    Edgar Allan Poe: Complete & Unabridged
    Edgar Allan Poe: Complete & Unabridged
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    52 reads
    #36
    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
    • Chuck Klosterman
    3.75128 reads
    #37
    Cover 7

    IMAGES OF REVOLUTION

    IMAGES OF REVOLUTION
    • David King
    • Catherine Porter
    51 read
    #38
    Cover 4

    Transforming Vision

    Transforming Vision: Writers on Art
    • Edward Hirsch
    31 read
    #39
    Cover 2

    Flavor of the Month

    Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads
    • Joel Best
    21 read
    #40
    Cover 8

    Arcana II

    Arcana II: Musicians on Music
      31 read
      #41
      Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde
      Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde
      • Joscelyn Godwin
      51 read
      #42
      Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
      Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
      • Harold Bloom
      31 read
      #43
      How to Read a Book
      How to Read a Book
      • Mortimer J. Adler
      • Charles Van Doren
      3.79108 reads
      #44
      Cover 0

      Arcana III

      Arcana III: Musicians on Music
        31 read
        #45
        Beginning Theory
        Beginning Theory
        • Peter Barry
        3.674 reads
        #46
        Falling Into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature
        Falling Into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature
        • David H. Richter
        41 read
        #47
        Cover 3

        Endgame

        Endgame: The Ashbin Play
        • Arthur N. Athanason
        21 read
        #48
        Essays and The New Atlantis
        Essays and The New Atlantis
        • Francis Bacon
        41 read
        #49
        El árbol metálico
        El árbol metálico
        • Tony DiTerlizzi
        • Holly Black
        31 read
        #50
        How to Read Literature Like a Professor
        How to Read Literature Like a Professor
        • Thomas C. Foster
        3.576 reads
        #51
        Cover 4

        William Shakespeare's Hamlet

        William Shakespeare's Hamlet
          31 read
          #52
          Cover 6

          David Lynch

          David Lynch: Beautiful Dark
          • Greg Olson
          42 reads
          #53
          Dream Makers
          Dream Makers
          • Charles Platt
          41 read
          #54
          Dream Makers II
          Dream Makers II
          • Charles Platt
          31 read
          #55
          Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
          Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
          • Robert McKee
          4.346 reads
          #56
          Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
          Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
          • Kurt Vonnegut
          3.4127 reads
          #57
          Cover 3

          Against the American Dream

          Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski
          • Russell Harrison
          31 read
          #58
          Cover 7

          A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Vol.

          A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Vol.
          • Carroll F. Terrell
          31 read
          #59
          The hero with a thousand faces
          The hero with a thousand faces
          • Joseph Campbell
          3.9776 reads
          #60
          The San Francisco Poets
          The San Francisco Poets
          • David Meltzer
          41 read
          #61
          The Modern Element
          The Modern Element
          • Adam Kirsch
          43 reads
          #62
          Cover 1

          Books

          Books: A Memoir
          • Larry McMurtry
          22 reads
          #63
          God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
          God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
          • Christopher Hitchens
          4.412 reads
          #64
          Cover 1

          Shakespeare and Film

          Shakespeare and Film: A Norton Guide
          • Samuel Crowl
          31 read
          #65
          The Virtues of Poetry
          The Virtues of Poetry
          • James Longenbach
          01 read
          #66
          Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex: A Collection of Critical Essays
          Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex: A Collection of Critical Essays
            01 read
            #67
            Cover 5

            Creationists

            Creationists: Selected Essays: 1993-2006
            • E.L. Doctorow
            01 read
            #68
            American Isis
            American Isis
            • Carl Rollyson
            42 reads
            #69
            The Dead
            The Dead
            • James Joyce
            4.2647 reads
            #70
            Cover 0

            The Quay Brothers

            The Quay Brothers: Into a Metaphysical Playroom
            • Suzanne Buchan
            01 read
            #71
            The Yellow Wallpaper
            The Yellow Wallpaper
            • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
            4.06373 reads
            #72
            Don't Know Much About Literature
            Don't Know Much About Literature
            • Kenneth C. Davis
            • Jenny Davis
            01 read
            #73
            On Moral Fiction
            On Moral Fiction
            • John Gardner
            35 reads
            #74
            Classical Literary Criticism
            Classical Literary Criticism
            • Aristotle
            • Horatius
            • Dionysius Longinus
            • Plato
            • Plutarch
            • Tacitus
            33 reads
            #75
            The Art of Fiction
            The Art of Fiction
            • John Gardner
            4.219 reads
            #76
            Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
            Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
            • Walter Benjamin
            • Harry Zohn (Translator)
            4.515 reads
            #77
            Narrative Discourse : An Essay in Method
            Narrative Discourse : An Essay in Method
            • Gérard Genette
            • Jane E. Lewin (Translator)
            01 read
            #78
            Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
            Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
            • Cornelius Cardew
            01 read
            #79
            Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
            Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
            • Anne Helen Petersen
            3.53 reads
            #80
            50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
            50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
            • Guy P. Harrison
            3.336 reads
            #81
            Civilization and Its Discontents
            Civilization and Its Discontents
            • Sigmund Freud
            • James Strachey (Translator)
            3.7745 reads
            #82
            Cover 5

            The Art of Watching Films

            The Art of Watching Films
            • Joseph M. Boggs
            • Dennis Petrie
            53 reads
            #83
            Cover 7

            Longinus on the sublime

            Longinus on the sublime
            • W. Rhys Roberts
            01 read
            #84
            For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
            For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
            • Alain Robbe-Grillet
            • Richard Howard (Translator)
            33 reads
            #85
            Tales from the Crypt
            Tales from the Crypt
            • Digby Diehl
            01 read
            #86
            The Electronic Revolution
            The Electronic Revolution
            • William S. Burroughs
            01 read
            #87
            Terrors of the screen
            Terrors of the screen
            • Frank Manchel
            01 read
            #88
            Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
            Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
            • Kim Newman
            4.54 reads
            #89
            A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
            A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
            • David Foster Wallace
            4.18107 reads
            #90
            Bad Feminist
            Bad Feminist
            • Roxane Gay
            3.89197 reads
            #91
            Cover 3

            The Art of Noise

            The Art of Noise
            • Luigi Russolo
            • Robert Filliou (Translator)
            3.253 reads
            #92
            Don't Be a Jerk
            Don't Be a Jerk
            • Brad Warner
            4.087 reads
            #93
            Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction
            Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction
            • Peter Decherney
            02 reads
            #94
            Cover 8

            Robert Frost

            Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949-1962
            • Robert Frost
            01 read
            #95
            Halloween
            Halloween
            • Murray J.D. Leeder
            01 read
            #96
            Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
            Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
            • Carol J. Clover
            3.49 reads
            #97
            Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
            Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
            • Zadie Smith
            55 reads
            #98
            Blood, bread, and poetry
            Blood, bread, and poetry
            • Adrienne Rich
            • Adrienne Rich
            42 reads
            #99
            Cover 5

            Machine Art and Other Writings

            Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years
            • Ezra Pound
            01 read
            #100
            The Myth of Sisyphus
            The Myth of Sisyphus
            • Albert Camus
            • Justin O'Brien (Translator)
            4.12250 reads
            #101
            Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
            Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
            • Neil Postman
            4.08115 reads