What to Read After Anatomy of Criticism
Readers who loved Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Anatomy of Criticism is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Anatomy of Criticism
Mimesis
Literary Theory
The Dialogic Imagination
S/Z
The Mirror and the Lamp
The Anxiety of Influence
Problems of Dostoevsky's poetics
Aspects of the Novel
An Experiment in Criticism
How to Read and Why
The Western canon
On Deconstruction
Sacred Wood
On Literature
The Well Wrought Urn
The Sense of an Ending
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
The Madwoman in the Attic
The Liberal Imagination
The Pooh Perplex
Theory of Prose
Poetics
Rabelais and His World
Principles of Literary Criticism