20th-Century Literary Criticism
Reader pathways and category hints that cluster around this lane.

The Waste Land and Other Poems

A Collection of Essays

The Weird and the Eerie

The Trouble With Being Born

Orwell's Roses

A Short History of Decay

Blues for Mister Charlie

Aspects of the Novel

The Fellowship

K-punk

J.r.r. Tolkien

Great Books

Updike

The World Broke in Two

The Most Dangerous Book

The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses

The Temptation to Exist

S/z

The Dawn Watch

James Joyce's Ulysses

Notes on Blood Meridian

Lost Time

Drawn and Quartered

Exile's Return

The Complete Tolkien Companion

Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

An Encyclopedia of Tolkien

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken

Modernism: a Very Short Introduction

The Unforgivable

The Saddest Words

The Geography of the Imagination

Constant Reader

Re Joyce

Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time

Language, Counter-memory, Practice

Raymond Chandler

Jorge Luis Borges

Ernest Hemingway: the Last Interview

Notes From the Air

Ulysses Unbound

Wonder Confronts Certainty

The Portable Twentieth-century Russian Reader

Defending the West

The Bright Book of Life

Radio Benjamin

On Reading the Grapes of Wrath

The Blessing and the Curse

C. S. Lewis in America

The World, the Text, and the Critic

Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce

Wallace Stevens

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

Language As Liberation

On Native Grounds

Duchamp Is My Lawyer

The Waste Land

The Frontier Within

Masters of the "humdrum" Mystery

The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age