‘literary criticism’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “Perfume Reviews”, Gwern 2025
- “‘Review’ Directory”, Gwern 2018
- “Review: The Birth of Sake (2015)”, Gwern 2025
- “Movie Reviews”, Gwern 2014
- “Review Of 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛”, Gwern 2024
- “Anime Reviews”, Gwern 2010
- “Review Of 𝐶𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑏”, Gwern 2024
- “Review of 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒”, Gwern 2024
- “Why Is Western Animation Ugly?”, Gwern 2024
- “𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑝𝑠𝑒: Freedom In An Unfree Universe”, Gwern 2017
- “Interpreting ‘Suzanne Delage’ As 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎”, Gwern 2009
- “The Tragedy of Grand Admiral Thrawn”, Gwern 2019
- “Book Reviews”, Gwern 2013
- “Review of 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐾𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑎”, Gwern 2016
- “Opera Reviews”, Gwern 2019
- “Review of 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝘩𝑖𝑝 𝑌𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑜”, Gwern 2021
- “Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert’s Dune-Verse”, Gwern 2018
- “The ‘Screwfly Solution’ Solution: Bi-Sexuality”, Gwern 2021
- “Race in 𝑀𝑦 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑛𝑦”, Gwern 2018
- “𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 Source Anthology”, Gwern 2009
- “𝑀𝐿𝑃: Immanetizing The Equestrian”, Gwern 2018
- “On Development Hell”, Gwern 2020
- “The Most ‘Abandoned’ Books on GoodReads”, Gwern 2019
- “Hafu Gender Ratios in Anime”, Gwern 2011
- “‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, Gwern 2013
- “The Mulberry Tree”, Gwern 2010
- “The Melancholy of Kyon”, Gwern 2009
- “‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story”, Gwern 2012
- “𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy”, Gwern 2011
- “Notes on 𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛”, Gwern 2010
- “Cultural Drift: Cleaning Methods”, Gwern 2013
- “Why Anime?”, Gwern 2011
- “𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑎’s Past, Present, and Future”, Gwern 2011
- “Parody in 𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐!”, Gwern 2008
- “Komm Susser Tod”, Gwern 2010
- “𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒’s Ending”, Gwern 2008
- “The Snowbanks of Time”, Gwern 2011
- “Immoral Books”, Gwern 2010
- Links
- “Representations of Trauma in A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing: Novel and Stage Adaptation § Pg10”, McGrath 2025 (page 10)
- “Tyranny As Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power; Nan Z. Da Explores the Similarities Between Shakespeare’s Play and 20th-Century Totalitarian Reality”, Da 2025
- “Thomas D. Clareson”, Encyclopedia 2025
- “This Movie Is Why I’m Alive: How Ratatouille Showed Me the Beauty of the World That Wished to Kill Me”, Nikmand 2024
- “The Best RPG Cover of All Time [Traveller 1977]”, Dwiz 2024
- “John Shakespeare’s ‘Spiritual Testament’ Is Not John Shakespeare’s”, Steggle 2024
- “Through the Eyes of Ladies-In-Waiting: Female Spectatorship and the Power of Knowledge in the Genji Scrolls”, Peterson 2024
- “They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities”
- “Collections: Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat”, Devereaux 2022
- “Stillness”, Carson 2021
- “The Goodreads ‘Classics’: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism”, Walsh & Antoniak 2021
- “My Immortal As Alchemical Allegory”, Alexander 2020
- “The Phantom’s Pain—A Metal Gear Solid V Narrative Analysis”, Lakeman 2020
- “Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him”, Menard 2020
- “Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a Great Science Paper: The Pulitzer Prizewinner Shares His Advice for Pleasing Readers, Editors and Yourself”, Savage et al 2019
- “Disaster Artist—Insanity Is No Shortcut to Inspiration”, Lakeman 2019
- “TVTropes: Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack”, TVTropes 2019
- “Film Review: The Haunting (1963)”, Dean 2017
- “The Old English Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost: the Characterization of Satan”, Ramazzina 2016
- “Spoiler Alert: Consequences of Narrative Spoilers for Dimensions of Enjoyment, Appreciation, and Transportation”, Johnson & Rosenbaum 2015
- “Romancing Pigeons: The Deconstruction of the Dating-Sim in Hatoful Boyfriend”, Lamerichs 2014
- “Killing Time: Dracula and Social Discoordination”, Robbins 2014
- “What Are the Movies That Audiences Loved but the Critics Hated? Analysis of 10,000 Movies Reveals the Films With the Highest Disparity between Critic and Audience Reviews”, Evershed 2013
- “Excerpts from 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑦”, Murakami 2013
- “Okay, Kids, Play on My Lawn”, Ebert 2012
- “On The Battlefield of ‘Superflat’”, Sawaragi 2012
- “Otaku Talk”, Okada et al 2012
- “Earth in My Window”, Murakami & Hoaglund 2012
- “Ero-Anime: Manga Comes Alive”, Sarrazin 2011
- “Interviewing Translator Michael House”, House 2011
- “Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction”, Elson et al 2010
- “Losing Your Grip: Futility and Dramatic Necessity in Shadow of the Colossus”, Fortugno 2009
- The Secret History of Star Wars, Kaminski 2008
- “Origins of Magic: Review of Genetic and Epigenetic Effects”, Ramagopalan et al 2007
- “Very Afraid”, Harrison 2007
- “J. R. R. Tolkien—Enemy of Progress: The Lord of the Rings Is Lovingly Crafted, Seductive—And Profoundly Backward-Looking. Why Not Look at Things through the Dark Lord’s Eye for a Change?”, Brin 2002
- “The Prophet of Decline: Harold Bloom’s Influential Anxieties”, MacFarquhar 2002
- “‘And the Rest Writes Itself’: Roland Barthes Watches The Simpsons”, Arnold 2001
- “What Do Animals Do All Day? The Division of Labor, Class Bodies, and Totemic Thinking in the Popular Imagination”, Martin 2000
- “Review: The Collected Larkin: ‘But Why Put It into Words?’”, Filkins 1990
- “Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking”, Hyde 1986
- “The Launching Pad”, Clareson 1985
- “Frost’s ‘The Fear’: Unfinished Sentences, Unanswered Questions”, Perrine 1984
- “‘I Have Never Seen a More Lucid, More Lonely, Better Balanced Mad Mind Than Mine’”, Duffy 1969 (page 3)
- How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?, Knights 1933
- “The Homeric Versions”, Borges 1932
- “Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems, by Harry Crosby”, Eliot 1931
- Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment, Richards 1929
- “Man of the Week: [Filippo Tommaso] Marinetti”, Lewis 1914
- “Fanon versus Canon”
- “Can an LLM Have Taste? Inkhaven Week 1, Ranked by Claude”, Wales 2026
- “College English Majors Can’t Read”
- “Reading across Books With Claude Code”
- “Trope: ‘Kick the Dog’”, TVTropes 2026
- “Rule of Cool”, TVTropes 2026
- michael_nielsen
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia (5)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Perfume Reviews”, Gwern 2025
“‘Review’ Directory”, Gwern 2018
“Review: The Birth of Sake (2015)”, Gwern 2025
“Movie Reviews”, Gwern 2014
“Review Of 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛”, Gwern 2024
“Anime Reviews”, Gwern 2010
“Review Of 𝐶𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑏”, Gwern 2024
“Review of 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒”, Gwern 2024
“Why Is Western Animation Ugly?”, Gwern 2024
“𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑝𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑝𝑠𝑒: Freedom In An Unfree Universe”, Gwern 2017
“Interpreting ‘Suzanne Delage’ As 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎”, Gwern 2009
“The Tragedy of Grand Admiral Thrawn”, Gwern 2019
“Book Reviews”, Gwern 2013
“Review of 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐾𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑎”, Gwern 2016
“Opera Reviews”, Gwern 2019
“Review of 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝘩𝑖𝑝 𝑌𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑜”, Gwern 2021
“Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert’s Dune-Verse”, Gwern 2018
“The ‘Screwfly Solution’ Solution: Bi-Sexuality”, Gwern 2021
“Race in 𝑀𝑦 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑛𝑦”, Gwern 2018
“𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 Source Anthology”, Gwern 2009
“𝑀𝐿𝑃: Immanetizing The Equestrian”, Gwern 2018
“On Development Hell”, Gwern 2020
“The Most ‘Abandoned’ Books on GoodReads”, Gwern 2019
“Hafu Gender Ratios in Anime”, Gwern 2011
“‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, Gwern 2013
“The Mulberry Tree”, Gwern 2010
“The Melancholy of Kyon”, Gwern 2009
“‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story”, Gwern 2012
“𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy”, Gwern 2011
“Notes on 𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛”, Gwern 2010
“Cultural Drift: Cleaning Methods”, Gwern 2013
“Why Anime?”, Gwern 2011
“𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑎’s Past, Present, and Future”, Gwern 2011
“Parody in 𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐!”, Gwern 2008
“Komm Susser Tod”, Gwern 2010
“𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒’s Ending”, Gwern 2008
“The Snowbanks of Time”, Gwern 2011
“Immoral Books”, Gwern 2010
Links
“Representations of Trauma in A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing: Novel and Stage Adaptation § Pg10”, McGrath 2025 (page 10)
Representations of Trauma in A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing: Novel and Stage Adaptation § pg10
“Tyranny As Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power; Nan Z. Da Explores the Similarities Between Shakespeare’s Play and 20th-Century Totalitarian Reality”, Da 2025
“Thomas D. Clareson”, Encyclopedia 2025
View External Link:
“This Movie Is Why I’m Alive: How Ratatouille Showed Me the Beauty of the World That Wished to Kill Me”, Nikmand 2024
“The Best RPG Cover of All Time [Traveller 1977]”, Dwiz 2024
“John Shakespeare’s ‘Spiritual Testament’ Is Not John Shakespeare’s”, Steggle 2024
John Shakespeare’s ‘Spiritual Testament’ Is Not John Shakespeare’s
“Through the Eyes of Ladies-In-Waiting: Female Spectatorship and the Power of Knowledge in the Genji Scrolls”, Peterson 2024
“They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities”
“Collections: Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat”, Devereaux 2022
“Stillness”, Carson 2021
View PDF:
“The Goodreads ‘Classics’: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism”, Walsh & Antoniak 2021
“My Immortal As Alchemical Allegory”, Alexander 2020
“The Phantom’s Pain—A Metal Gear Solid V Narrative Analysis”, Lakeman 2020
“Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him”, Menard 2020
Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him
“Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a Great Science Paper: The Pulitzer Prizewinner Shares His Advice for Pleasing Readers, Editors and Yourself”, Savage et al 2019
“Disaster Artist—Insanity Is No Shortcut to Inspiration”, Lakeman 2019
“TVTropes: Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack”, TVTropes 2019
“Film Review: The Haunting (1963)”, Dean 2017
“The Old English Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost: the Characterization of Satan”, Ramazzina 2016
The Old English Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost: the characterization of Satan
“Spoiler Alert: Consequences of Narrative Spoilers for Dimensions of Enjoyment, Appreciation, and Transportation”, Johnson & Rosenbaum 2015
“Romancing Pigeons: The Deconstruction of the Dating-Sim in Hatoful Boyfriend”, Lamerichs 2014
Romancing Pigeons: The Deconstruction of the Dating-Sim in Hatoful Boyfriend :
“Killing Time: Dracula and Social Discoordination”, Robbins 2014
“What Are the Movies That Audiences Loved but the Critics Hated? Analysis of 10,000 Movies Reveals the Films With the Highest Disparity between Critic and Audience Reviews”, Evershed 2013
“Excerpts from 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑦”, Murakami 2013
“Okay, Kids, Play on My Lawn”, Ebert 2012
“On The Battlefield of ‘Superflat’”, Sawaragi 2012
“Otaku Talk”, Okada et al 2012
“Earth in My Window”, Murakami & Hoaglund 2012
“Ero-Anime: Manga Comes Alive”, Sarrazin 2011
“Interviewing Translator Michael House”, House 2011
“Extracting Social Networks from Literary Fiction”, Elson et al 2010
“Losing Your Grip: Futility and Dramatic Necessity in Shadow of the Colossus”, Fortugno 2009
Losing Your Grip: Futility and Dramatic Necessity in Shadow of the Colossus :
View PDF:
The Secret History of Star Wars, Kaminski 2008
“Origins of Magic: Review of Genetic and Epigenetic Effects”, Ramagopalan et al 2007
“Very Afraid”, Harrison 2007
“J. R. R. Tolkien—Enemy of Progress: The Lord of the Rings Is Lovingly Crafted, Seductive—And Profoundly Backward-Looking. Why Not Look at Things through the Dark Lord’s Eye for a Change?”, Brin 2002
“The Prophet of Decline: Harold Bloom’s Influential Anxieties”, MacFarquhar 2002
The Prophet of Decline: Harold Bloom’s influential anxieties
“‘And the Rest Writes Itself’: Roland Barthes Watches The Simpsons”, Arnold 2001
‘And the Rest Writes Itself’: Roland Barthes Watches The Simpsons
“What Do Animals Do All Day? The Division of Labor, Class Bodies, and Totemic Thinking in the Popular Imagination”, Martin 2000
View PDF:
“Review: The Collected Larkin: ‘But Why Put It into Words?’”, Filkins 1990
Review: The Collected Larkin: ‘But Why Put It into Words?’ :
View PDF:
“Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking”, Hyde 1986
“The Launching Pad”, Clareson 1985
“Frost’s ‘The Fear’: Unfinished Sentences, Unanswered Questions”, Perrine 1984
Frost’s ‘The Fear’: Unfinished Sentences, Unanswered Questions :
View PDF:
“‘I Have Never Seen a More Lucid, More Lonely, Better Balanced Mad Mind Than Mine’”, Duffy 1969 (page 3)
‘I Have Never Seen a More Lucid, More Lonely, Better Balanced Mad Mind Than Mine’ :
How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?, Knights 1933
“The Homeric Versions”, Borges 1932
“Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems, by Harry Crosby”, Eliot 1931
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems, by Harry Crosby :
View PDF:
Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment, Richards 1929
“Man of the Week: [Filippo Tommaso] Marinetti”, Lewis 1914
Man of the Week: [Filippo Tommaso] Marinetti :
View PDF:
“Fanon versus Canon”
“Can an LLM Have Taste? Inkhaven Week 1, Ranked by Claude”, Wales 2026
“College English Majors Can’t Read”
“Reading across Books With Claude Code”
“Trope: ‘Kick the Dog’”, TVTropes 2026
“Rule of Cool”, TVTropes 2026
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Bibliography
https://acoup.blog/2022/12/16/collections-why-rings-of-powers-middle-earth-feels-flat/: “Collections: Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat”,2005-little-boy: “Excerpts from 𝐿𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝐵𝑜𝑦”,2004-okada: “Otaku Talk”,2005-murakami: “Earth in My Window”,2010-sarrazin: “Ero-Anime: Manga Comes Alive”,2011-house: “Interviewing Translator Michael House”,