Saturday 28 January 2023

Literary Criticism - Reading Resources

Hello all.

This blog will be useful to literature students, teachers and readers who are teaching, learning and having a keen interest in literary criticism. Please treat this blog page as an open reading resource to access the PDFs and their links mentioned herby.

Note: All the reading resources updated here are already available for download. Further links will be updated.

Roland Barthes

From Work to Text Explained - Click Here
From Work to Text Full Essay PDF - Click Here
From work to text full essay PDF - Click Here
Annotated text PDF - Click Here
simplified version of the essay with explanation PDF - Click Here


I. A. Richards

Principles of Literary Criticism (1930) PDF - Click Here for essay "The Imagination"
New Criticism (For Overview of two critics) - Click Here

F. R. Leavis

Reality and Sincerity - Click Here
The Living Principle: English as a Discipline of Thought PDF - Click Here Visit Page 125 for the essay.

W.K. Wimsatt Jr. and M.C. Beardsley

Intentional Fallacy PDF - Click Here

Northrop Frye

Fables of Identity PDF - Click Here Visit the index part of the book for the essay.

Thank You !