LitCrit at Troynovant:
closer readings of the analytical process
in and around literary criticism;
listed by Title
By in and around Literary Criticism we mean here literary essays or reviews which glance at critical principles or the critical process itself as well as the created works at hand, or reviews of works themselves critical. Note that reviews or essays developing some point or aspect of literature are not necessarily listed here.
Some partly overlapping lists at Troynovant:
PictureLike: projecting some light on moving pictures
ReFuture: history of science fiction
WordPoints: pointed more toward language, writers, & publishing
That Shelley was an excellent scholar, a man well read in many fields, and that he was fundamentally intellectual rather than emotional, is not widely realized. Mary Shelley's modest contention that Shelley was as notable a philosopher as poet has been smilingly put aside as the exaggeration born of a wifely devotion. One gathers, indeed, from many commentators that Shelley was a kind of inspired idiot, producing beautiful poetry without clearly knowing what he was about.
It is unlikely that beautiful poetry was ever so produced.
Carl Grabo
A Newton Among Poets
Shelley's Use of Science in Prometheus Unbound
| Advertisement Touching a Holy War | Francis Bacon | RW Franson |
| Art of Fiction, The | Ayn Rand | RW Franson |
| As Good as The Lord of the Rings — An epic failure of comparison |
RW Franson | |
| Atlas Shrugged as Science Fiction Two Reviews in Astounding, 1958 |
RW Franson | |
| Bring Her Down How the American Media Tried to Destroy Sarah Palin |
Gina Dalfonzo | NO Coulter |
| Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book | Michael Barrier | RW Franson |
| Demigoddess of the Mind James H. Schmitz's heroine Telzey Amberdon |
RW Franson | |
| East Europe Reads Nietzsche | Alice Freifeld, Peter Bergmann & Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal |
RW Franson |
| Every Crowd Is Crazy Kipling's Political Theme in "As Easy as A.B.C." |
WH Stoddard | |
| Faust A Tragedy (translated by Walter Arndt) |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | RW Franson |
| Federation of the Hub, The Self-Maintaining Science Fiction Universe |
JH Schmitz | |
| Fountainhead, The [an Aristotelian view] |
Ayn Rand | WH Stoddard |
| Four-Day Planet | H. Beam Piper | RW Franson |
| Galadriel and Ayesha | WH Stoddard | |
| Heinlein's Missed Bestsellers | RW Franson | |
| Horatius at Khazad-dum | WH Stoddard | |
| Ideas of Ayn Rand, The | Ronald E. Merrill | RW Franson |
| In Search of Wonder Essays on Modern Science Fiction |
Damon Knight | RW Franson |
| Inspector General, The (film) | Nikolai Gogol / Henry Koster / Danny Kaye | RW Franson |
| Jane Austen in the South Seas or, Centrifugal versus Centripetal Criticism |
RW Franson | |
| John Galt, Man of Letters | RW Franson | |
| Law and Institutions in the Shire | WH Stoddard | |
| Leo Strauss and Nietzsche | Laurence Lampert | RW Franson |
| Let There Be Light | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Life and Value in Ayn Rand's Ethics | WH Stoddard | |
| Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly Was Dominque's rape in The Fountainhead actually rape? Why ... or why not? |
W McElroy | |
| Man Who Traveled in Elephants, The | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Miracle and Other Christmas Stories | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Mirror of Myth, The Classical Themes & Variations |
Jasper Griffin | RW Franson |
| Move the Stones of Rome to Rise Hearing Mark Antony |
RW Franson | |
| Nietzsche's Task An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil |
Laurence Lampert | RW Franson |
| Participatory Fiction | WH Stoddard | |
| Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | Jorge Luis Borges | RW Franson |
| Psychohistorical Crisis | Donald Kingsbury | WH Stoddard |
| Reckless Love | Elizabeth Lowell | RW Franson |
| Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century — Volume 1, 1907-1948: Learning Curve |
William H. Patterson, Jr. | RW Franson |
| Self-Published Authors in the Printed-Paper Era |
RW Franson | |
| Simbelmyne Mortality and Memory in Middle-Earth |
WH Stoddard | |
| Structural Aspects of Atlas Shrugged | LH Hunt | |
| Telzey Amberdon series | James H. Schmitz | RW Franson |
| Topless in Ilium | Wolcott Gibbs | RW Franson |
| Why Superheroes Wear Capes | WH Stoddard | |
| Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare |
Stephen Greenblatt | RW Franson |
[A seaport in Cyprus; outdoors near the harbor.]
Desdemona:
What wouldst write of me, if thou shouldst praise me?
Iago:
O, gentle lady, do not put me to 't,
For I am nothing if not critical.William Shakespeare
Othello, 2.1.120-122
Science fiction, like romance, was once scorned as badly written, formulaic, lurid escapist fare best read in closets. Then, in the nineteen fifties, there was a rash of AftertheBomb science fiction books. Either directly or indirectly, these books criticized the course of modern civilization. Their stories predicted disaster for the human race. Endlessly.Voila. The genre of science fiction became politically and intellectually correct, a wellwritten body of literature with a proper appreciation of man's raging greed, stupidity, and futility. Gone were the garish covers of little green men hauling busty blondes off to far corners of the galaxy for an eternity of slap and tickle. Gone were the heroic rescuers of said blondes. In their place were caring and despairing antiheroes who tried and tried and tried to make things right, only to finally fail, going down the tubes with a suitable Existential whimper.
The critics loved it.
Ann Maxwell
"Popular Fiction: Why We Read It, Why We Write It"
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