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Kritik Sastra Ringkasan Buku

Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy
oleh Richard Brian Davis • 2009
When logic dissolves, a Cheshire Cat grins, and philosophy begins.
4.12
1.000+
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy Ringkasan
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy
When logic dissolves, a Cheshire Cat grins, and philosophy begins.
oleh Richard Brian Davis 2009 240 halaman
4.12
1.000+ penilaian
The Art of Fiction
oleh John Gardner • 1984
Master the craft that makes readers forget the page and live inside your story.
3.99
6.000+
The Art of Fiction Ringkasan
The Art of Fiction
Master the craft that makes readers forget the page and live inside your story.
oleh John Gardner 1984 240 halaman
3.99
6.000+ penilaian
The Limits of Interpretation
oleh Umberto Eco • 1990
When deconstruction declared all readings equal, Eco showed why the text itself disagrees.
4.13
500+
The Limits of Interpretation Ringkasan
The Limits of Interpretation
When deconstruction declared all readings equal, Eco showed why the text itself disagrees.
oleh Umberto Eco 1990 304 halaman
4.13
500+ penilaian
How Fiction Works
oleh James Wood • 2008
How do novels create the illusion of a thinking mind? A master critic explains the techniques.
3.99
8.000+
How Fiction Works Ringkasan
How Fiction Works
How do novels create the illusion of a thinking mind? A master critic explains the techniques.
oleh James Wood 2008 265 halaman
3.99
8.000+ penilaian
Poetics
oleh Aristotle
Plot is everything. Character is secondary. The ancient blueprint for a tragedy that devastates.
3.83
29.000+
Poetics Ringkasan
Poetics
Plot is everything. Character is secondary. The ancient blueprint for a tragedy that devastates.
oleh Aristotle 144 halaman
3.83
29.000+ penilaian
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
oleh Marie-Louise von Franz • 1970
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
4.16
1.000+
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales Ringkasan
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
oleh Marie-Louise von Franz 1970 224 halaman
4.16
1.000+ penilaian
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
oleh Gregory Bassham • 2003
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
4.27
5.000+
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy Ringkasan
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
oleh Gregory Bassham 2003 163 halaman
4.27
5.000+ penilaian
Aspects of the Novel
oleh E.M. Forster • 1927
A novelist dismantles fiction into its working parts: story, plot, and the characters who breathe.
3.80
4.000+
Aspects of the Novel Ringkasan
Aspects of the Novel
A novelist dismantles fiction into its working parts: story, plot, and the characters who breathe.
oleh E.M. Forster 1927 192 halaman
3.80
4.000+ penilaian
How to Read Lacan
oleh Slavoj Žižek • 2006
Canned laughter, borrowed desire, and the hidden logic that links sitcoms to totalitarianism.
3.94
3.000+
How to Read Lacan Ringkasan
How to Read Lacan
Canned laughter, borrowed desire, and the hidden logic that links sitcoms to totalitarianism.
oleh Slavoj Žižek 2006 144 halaman
3.94
3.000+ penilaian
Reading Like a Writer
oleh Francine Prose • 2006
Workshops preach rules. Real craft is learned one Chekhov sentence at a time.
3.77
11.000+
Reading Like a Writer Ringkasan
Reading Like a Writer
Workshops preach rules. Real craft is learned one Chekhov sentence at a time.
oleh Francine Prose 2006 320 halaman
3.77
11.000+ penilaian
Imaginary Homelands
oleh Salman Rushdie • 1991
After empire, the migrant's double vision and a stolen tongue remake what home and freedom mean.
3.99
1.000+
Imaginary Homelands Ringkasan
Imaginary Homelands
After empire, the migrant's double vision and a stolen tongue remake what home and freedom mean.
oleh Salman Rushdie 1991 448 halaman
3.99
1.000+ penilaian
Writing and Difference
oleh Jacques Derrida • 1967
Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.
4.00
7.000+
Writing and Difference Ringkasan
Writing and Difference
Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.
oleh Jacques Derrida 1967 362 halaman
4.00
7.000+ penilaian
Shakespeare
oleh Harold Bloom • 1998
Macbeth as a map of the mind: how ambition, guilt, and deception destroy from within.
4.03
3.000+
Shakespeare Ringkasan
Shakespeare
Macbeth as a map of the mind: how ambition, guilt, and deception destroy from within.
oleh Harold Bloom 1998 745 halaman
4.03
3.000+ penilaian
Archaeologies of the Future
oleh Fredric Jameson • 2005
Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.
4.04
500+
Archaeologies of the Future Ringkasan
Archaeologies of the Future
Utopia's function is not to predict the future but to prove the present is not inevitable.
oleh Fredric Jameson 2005 448 halaman
4.04
500+ penilaian
Ursula K. Le Guin
oleh Ursula K. Le Guin • 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin shares the philosophy behind her worlds, her craft, and the power of stories.
4.28
2.000+
Ursula K. Le Guin Ringkasan
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin shares the philosophy behind her worlds, her craft, and the power of stories.
oleh Ursula K. Le Guin 2018 138 halaman
4.28
2.000+ penilaian
The Lonely Voice
oleh Frank O'Connor • 1961
The short story speaks for the outsider the novel was never built to see.
3.89
246
The Lonely Voice Ringkasan
The Lonely Voice
The short story speaks for the outsider the novel was never built to see.
oleh Frank O'Connor 1961 224 halaman
3.89
246 penilaian
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
oleh Harold Bloom • 2000
Why a novel about a shy freshman's breakdown became the coming-of-age story of a generation.
4.16
1.000+
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Ringkasan
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Why a novel about a shy freshman's breakdown became the coming-of-age story of a generation.
oleh Harold Bloom 2000 147 halaman
4.16
1.000+ penilaian
Why Read Moby-Dick?
oleh Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010
The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.
3.78
4.000+
Why Read Moby-Dick? Ringkasan
Why Read Moby-Dick?
The whale is America: a historian on why Moby-Dick is the novel our present moment demands.
oleh Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 131 halaman
3.78
4.000+ penilaian
The Written World
oleh Martin Puchner • 2017
Significance has a blueprint most people overlook, and it has nothing to do with your resume.
3.93
1.000+
The Written World Ringkasan
The Written World
Significance has a blueprint most people overlook, and it has nothing to do with your resume.
oleh Martin Puchner 2017 537 halaman
3.93
1.000+ penilaian
Preface to Shakespeare
oleh Samuel Johnson • 1778
Why Shakespeare's greatness survives his flaws: Samuel Johnson's landmark verdict from 1778.
3.62
376
Preface to Shakespeare Ringkasan
Preface to Shakespeare
Why Shakespeare's greatness survives his flaws: Samuel Johnson's landmark verdict from 1778.
oleh Samuel Johnson 1778 68 halaman
3.62
376 penilaian
History of English literature
oleh Edward Albert • 1923
From Beowulf to Eliot: the full sweep of English literature, century by century.
3.90
257
History of English literature Ringkasan
History of English literature
From Beowulf to Eliot: the full sweep of English literature, century by century.
oleh Edward Albert 1923 544 halaman
3.90
257 penilaian
The Ministry of Truth
oleh Dorian Lynskey • 2019
How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.
4.12
1.000+
The Ministry of Truth Ringkasan
The Ministry of Truth
How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.
oleh Dorian Lynskey 2019 368 halaman
4.12
1.000+ penilaian
Lyrical and Critical Essays
oleh Albert Camus • 1970
Poverty and sunlight taught Camus a philosophy without resentment. These essays are its laboratory.
4.31
1.000+
Lyrical and Critical Essays Ringkasan
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Poverty and sunlight taught Camus a philosophy without resentment. These essays are its laboratory.
oleh Albert Camus 1970 384 halaman
4.31
1.000+ penilaian
Shakespeare's Freedom
oleh Stephen Greenblatt • 2010
Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.
3.83
175
Shakespeare's Freedom Ringkasan
Shakespeare's Freedom
Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.
oleh Stephen Greenblatt 2010 168 halaman
3.83
175 penilaian
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
oleh Pierre Bayard • 2020
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
3.44
5.000+
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Ringkasan
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
oleh Pierre Bayard 2020 185 halaman
3.44
5.000+ penilaian
Give War and Peace a Chance
oleh Andrew D. Kaufman • 2014
What a 19th-century Russian novel knows about chaos, loss, and meaning in your life.
3.89
364
Give War and Peace a Chance Ringkasan
Give War and Peace a Chance
What a 19th-century Russian novel knows about chaos, loss, and meaning in your life.
oleh Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 halaman
3.89
364 penilaian
A Jane Austen Education
oleh William Deresiewicz • 2011
What a graduate student learned from Jane Austen that no amount of academia could teach him.
3.84
4.000+
A Jane Austen Education Ringkasan
A Jane Austen Education
What a graduate student learned from Jane Austen that no amount of academia could teach him.
oleh William Deresiewicz 2011 255 halaman
3.84
4.000+ penilaian
The Art of Intimacy
oleh Stacey D'Erasmo • 2013
Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.
3.93
248
The Art of Intimacy Ringkasan
The Art of Intimacy
Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.
oleh Stacey D'Erasmo 2013 144 halaman
3.93
248 penilaian
The Art of Subtext
oleh Charles Baxter • 2007
What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.
4.02
1.000+
The Art of Subtext Ringkasan
The Art of Subtext
What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.
oleh Charles Baxter 2007 182 halaman
4.02
1.000+ penilaian
How to Read and Why
oleh Harold Bloom • 2000
Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.
3.61
3.000+
How to Read and Why Ringkasan
How to Read and Why
Read selfishly, chase pleasure, and recover the irony that academic jargon banished.
oleh Harold Bloom 2000 288 halaman
3.61
3.000+ penilaian
Science Fiction
oleh David Seed • 2011
How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.
3.31
500+
Science Fiction Ringkasan
Science Fiction
How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.
oleh David Seed 2011 147 halaman
3.31
500+ penilaian
Step Across This Line
oleh Salman Rushdie • 2002
A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.
3.93
1.000+
Step Across This Line Ringkasan
Step Across This Line
A death sentence for a book. A decade of essays on freedom, Oz, and writing anyway.
oleh Salman Rushdie 2002 317 halaman
3.93
1.000+ penilaian
The Anatomy of Influence
oleh Harold Bloom • 2011
Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.
3.93
477
The Anatomy of Influence Ringkasan
The Anatomy of Influence
Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.
oleh Harold Bloom 2011 368 halaman
3.93
477 penilaian
Why Bob Dylan Matters
oleh Richard F. Thomas • 2017
A classicist reveals the ancient texts hidden inside Bob Dylan's most famous lyrics.
3.74
1.000+
Why Bob Dylan Matters Ringkasan
Why Bob Dylan Matters
A classicist reveals the ancient texts hidden inside Bob Dylan's most famous lyrics.
oleh Richard F. Thomas 2017 368 halaman
3.74
1.000+ penilaian
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
oleh Orhan Pamuk • 2010
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
3.95
3.000+
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist Ringkasan
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
oleh Orhan Pamuk 2010 81 halaman
3.95
3.000+ penilaian
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
oleh Simon Critchley • 2019
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
3.89
388
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us Ringkasan
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
oleh Simon Critchley 2019 336 halaman
3.89
388 penilaian
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro
oleh Vladimir Nabokov • 1981
Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.
4.26
2.000+
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro Ringkasan
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro
Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.
oleh Vladimir Nabokov 1981 364 halaman
4.26
2.000+ penilaian
The Shadow of a Great Rock
oleh Harold Bloom • 2011
The King James Bible as literature: irony, personality, a god more character than creator.
3.48
185
The Shadow of a Great Rock Ringkasan
The Shadow of a Great Rock
The King James Bible as literature: irony, personality, a god more character than creator.
oleh Harold Bloom 2011 320 halaman
3.48
185 penilaian
The Translator's Invisibility
oleh Lawrence Venuti • 1994
The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.
3.79
272
The Translator's Invisibility Ringkasan
The Translator's Invisibility
The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.
oleh Lawrence Venuti 1994 368 halaman
3.79
272 penilaian
More Baths, Less Talking
oleh Nick Hornby • 2012
A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.
3.88
1.000+
More Baths, Less Talking Ringkasan
More Baths, Less Talking
A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.
oleh Nick Hornby 2012 135 halaman
3.88
1.000+ penilaian
The Language of the Night
oleh Ursula K. Le Guin • 1979
Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.
4.28
2.000+
The Language of the Night Ringkasan
The Language of the Night
Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.
oleh Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 304 halaman
4.28
2.000+ penilaian
The Wrath to Come
oleh Sarah Churchwell • 2022
Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.
4.22
500+
The Wrath to Come Ringkasan
The Wrath to Come
Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.
oleh Sarah Churchwell 2022 464 halaman
4.22
500+ penilaian
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
oleh George Steiner • 1959
Tolstoy built heaven on earth; Dostoevsky argued freedom needs hell. Their clash defines the novel.
4.26
466
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky Ringkasan
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
Tolstoy built heaven on earth; Dostoevsky argued freedom needs hell. Their clash defines the novel.
oleh George Steiner 1959 386 halaman
4.26
466 penilaian
Why Poetry
oleh Matthew Zapruder • 2017
The case for reading poems exactly as they are: literally, without hunting for hidden meanings.
4.16
1.000+
Why Poetry Ringkasan
Why Poetry
The case for reading poems exactly as they are: literally, without hunting for hidden meanings.
oleh Matthew Zapruder 2017 256 halaman
4.16
1.000+ penilaian
The New Orientalists
oleh Ian Almond • 2007
Postmodernism attacked Orientalism. Then, from Nietzsche to Žižek, it built a subtler one.
3.41
41
The New Orientalists Ringkasan
The New Orientalists
Postmodernism attacked Orientalism. Then, from Nietzsche to Žižek, it built a subtler one.
oleh Ian Almond 2007 229 halaman
3.41
41 penilaian
Mariner
oleh Malcolm Guite • 2017
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner foretold his own descent into opium and his hard-won return.
4.59
145
Mariner Ringkasan
Mariner
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner foretold his own descent into opium and his hard-won return.
oleh Malcolm Guite 2017 471 halaman
4.59
145 penilaian
The Strength to Dream
oleh Colin Wilson • 1962
The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.
3.93
123
The Strength to Dream Ringkasan
The Strength to Dream
The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.
oleh Colin Wilson 1962 277 halaman
3.93
123 penilaian
A Little History of Literature
oleh John Sutherland • 2013
Myths, money, and modernism: how literature got from campfire tales to your e-reader.
3.82
2.000+
A Little History of Literature Ringkasan
A Little History of Literature
Myths, money, and modernism: how literature got from campfire tales to your e-reader.
oleh John Sutherland 2013 276 halaman
3.82
2.000+ penilaian
Faith, Hope and Poetry
oleh Malcolm Guite • 2010
Imagination was exiled from knowledge centuries ago. Poetry kept the evidence across eight poets.
4.64
121
Faith, Hope and Poetry Ringkasan
Faith, Hope and Poetry
Imagination was exiled from knowledge centuries ago. Poetry kept the evidence across eight poets.
oleh Malcolm Guite 2010 268 halaman
4.64
121 penilaian
A Subversive Gospel
oleh Michael Mears Bruner • 2017
O'Connor read the world through the cross. Violence, folly, ugliness: this is the shape grace takes.
4.00
53
A Subversive Gospel Ringkasan
A Subversive Gospel
O'Connor read the world through the cross. Violence, folly, ugliness: this is the shape grace takes.
oleh Michael Mears Bruner 2017 260 halaman
4.00
53 penilaian
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