Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

1960 ★ 3.6

Against Interpretation

Tavia Gilbert, Susan Sontag

1966 ★ 3.7

Beginning theory

Peter Barry

2002

Literary theory

Terry Eagleton

1983

The meaning of meaning

Francis Graham Crookshank, Umberto Eco, C. K. Ogden et al.

1923

Language and silence

George Steiner

1967 ★ 4.0

Anatomy of criticism

Northrop Frye

1971

The signifying monkey

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

1988

Studying the novel

Jeremy Hawthorn

1985

Literature

Laurie G. Kirszner, Margaret Atwood, Chinua Achebe et al.

1991

T

Theory of literature

René Wellek

1956

I limiti dell'interpretazione

Umberto Eco

1990

Structuralist poetics

Jonathan D. Culler

1975

Practical criticism

I. A. Richards

1929

Critical theory since Plato

Hazard Adams

1971

Fables of identity

Northrop Frye

1963

Selected prose of T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

1975

Writing themes about literature

Edgar V. Roberts

1964

A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory

Raman Selden

1985

Principles of literary criticism

I. A. Richards

1924

Marxism and literary criticism

Terry Eagleton

1976

The reader, the text, the poem

Louise M. Rosenblatt

1994

Criticism and ideology

Terry Eagleton

1976

Evaluating critical thinking

Robert H. Ennis, Stephen P Norris, Stephen P. Norris

1989

Better Living Through Criticism

A. O. Scott

2015

Literary essays of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

1968

Proofs & theories

Louise Glück

1994

Literary criticism

William K. Wimsatt

1957

Literary theory and criticism

Patricia Waugh

2006

The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism

Michael Groden, Imre Szeman, Martin Kreiswirth

2005