Literary Study
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own is around 100 pages long. It’s Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness essay (originally a speech to an all-women’s college in 1929) on the subject of women in fiction. At least,…
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The Wilder Life
I picked up The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie at a publisher’s book sale that comes to our area once a year. It has one…
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“Drenched, dizzied, and bedevilled”: An Experiment in Criticism
“It was bound to happen,” I thought at some points as I read An Experiment in Criticism, “a C.S. Lewis work I don’t care for. I’m kind of relieved about it, actually; I’ve…
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A Landscape with Dragons
I didn’t like this book very much. At first, I thought I would. It seemed to promise a systematic look at fantasy stories. But ultimately A Landscape with Dragons is too alarmist for…
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The Narnian
Alan Jacobs’s The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis has been recommended to me twice by commenters here. I’ve been working through it slowly and savoring its even-handed, discerning discussion of…
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The Land of Narnia
The Land of Narnia: Brian Sibley Explores the World of C. S. Lewis is another book for young Narnia fans. Its cover bears the same yellow “World of Narnia” emblem as A Book…
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Passionate Attention
Richard L. McGuire’s Passionate Attention: An Introduction to Literary Study provides an overview of four approaches to investigating literature. In 80 pages, it offers a summary of my entire literary criticism course in…