Criticism Books

An Experiment in Criticism

An Experiment in Criticism

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader...

tags: writing, christian, philosophy, essays, language, classics, books about books, nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages...

tags: historical, writing, philosophy, essays, classics, religion, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes

The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes

The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere ChristianityMere Christianity and The Screwtape LettersThe Screwtape Letters...

tags: writing, audiobook, philosophy, essays, language, classics, books about books, nonfiction, literature, literary criticism, criticism, christian

A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic.

tags: theology, christian, literature, christianity, classics, religion, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, literary criticism

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“In life and art both, as it seems to me, we are always trying to catch in our net of successive moments something that is not successive . . . But I think it...

tags: writing, christian, philosophy, essays, language, classics, christianity, religion, books about books, nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

by Edmund Burke

An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical EnquiryPhilosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's...

tags: 18th century, theory, writing, politics, gothic, philosophy, essays, classics, nonfiction, literature, art, criticism, literary criticism

Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

Available from HarperOne, now the exclusive publisher of all of C. S. Lewis's adult religious books, a repackaged edition of the revered author’s treasury of...

tags: writing, philosophy, essays, language, classics, christianity, religion, short stories, nonfiction, literature, literary criticism, criticism, christian

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition

Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such...

tags: historical, poetry, christian, philosophy, classics, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

by G.K. Chesterton

tags: english literature, british literature, writing, european literature, essays, classics, biography, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

Studies in Words

Studies in Words

Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's...

tags: writing, unfinished, christian, linguistics, philosophy, essays, language, humanities, nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905-1931

The life and mind of C. S. Lewis have fascinated those who have read his works. This collection of his personal letters reveals a unique intellectual journey....

tags: reference, writing, criticism, european literature, christianity, language, religion, biography, nonfiction, history, literary criticism, british literature, christian

The Personal Heresy: A Controversy

The Personal Heresy: A Controversy

A repackaged edition of the revered author’s set of dueling critical essays with fellow scholar E. M. W. Tillyard in which they debate the role of an author’s...

tags: writing, adult, literature, philosophy, essays, language, classics, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, literary criticism

The Victorian Age in Literature

The Victorian Age in Literature

by G.K. Chesterton

‘I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit.’ In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton...

tags: victorian, historical, writing, british literature, european literature, essays, language, classics, books about books, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

This book is intended for students of English literature at `A' level and above; general readers interested in a complete history of literature from Middle...

tags: reference, writing, poetry, language, classics, books about books, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews

Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews

This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been...

tags: theology, writing, christian, philosophy, essays, language, classics, religion, nonfiction, literature, art, criticism, literary criticism

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963

This collection, carefully chosen and arranged by Walter Hooper, is the most extensive ever published. Included here are the letters Lewis wrote to such...

tags: theology, reference, literary criticism, memoir, christianity, religion, biography, nonfiction, autobiography, history, criticism, christian

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the...

tags: historical, reference, writing, literary fiction, essays, medieval, books about books, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

by G.K. Chesterton

The book traces in some detail Shaw’s work as a critic (puritanical opposition to Shakespeare) and as a dramatist. G K Chesterton was ideally placed to write...

tags: catholic, british literature, philosophy, european literature, christianity, classics, biography, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931-1949

The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931-1949

C. S. Lewis was a prolific letter writer, and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships, and the progress of his...

tags: theology, reference, faith, christianity, religion, biography, nonfiction, poetry, literary criticism, criticism, christian

Of This and Other Worlds

Of This and Other Worlds

Lewis, famous for his "Chronicles of Narnia" and other fantasy writings, discusses the theme of "story" - particularly in regard to fairy tales and science...

tags: theology, writing, philosophy, essays, language, religion, nonfiction, criticism, literary criticism

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