Literary Criticism

Reading, taken seriously as work. Essays and scholarship on how books do what they do, and what they are doing when they do it.

On the Ideas & Lives shelf.

Books shelved as Literary Criticism

The Call Of the Wild — Jack London
Monster, She Wrote — Lisa Kröger
Much Ado About Nothing — William Shakespeare
Eugénie Grandet — Honoré de Balzac
Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths — Natalie Haynes
The Mirror and the Lamp — M. H. Abrams
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
King Lear — William Shakespeare
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
Inferno — Dante Alighieri
Ximena de dos caminos — Laura Riesco
El mensajero — L.P. Hartley
Tolkien On Fairy-stories — J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk — Lally MacBeth
Macbeth — William Shakespeare
The Tempest — William Shakespeare
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Atrabalario — Mariano José de Larra
Frankenstein — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
El hombre hembra — Joanna Russ
Máquinas mortales — Philip Reeve
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley — Mary Shelley