r/AskLiteraryStudies

55k members
r/askliterarystudies is a subreddit with 55k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses literature, poetry, phd, struggling, and writing, and they frequently recommend/review novel.
A place for questions and discussion related to literature, its production, its history. NOT a place for getting people to do your homework.

Popular Themes in r/AskLiteraryStudies

#1
Advice Requests
: "Recommendation of Literature professors on YouTube or Spotify?"
26 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Need a System that Works to Finish a Paper"
1 post
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Dissertation stress"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/AskLiteraryStudies

#1

Literature

: "what are like, the "pre-reads" for most english Literature?"
132 posts
#2

Poetry

: "Close reading of Poetry"
17 posts
#3

Phd

: "For those who studied/teach Comp Lit: How is "fit" defined in Phd admissions?"
14 posts
#4

Struggling

13 posts
#5

Writing

: "How might the differences in the Writings styles and themes of German, French, and English modernists best be described? What makes each of them somewhat distinct from the others?"
13 posts
#6

Fiction

: "Recommend Fiction texts for Animal Studies"
11 posts
#7

Translation

: "What Translation of bible for studying it as literature"
11 posts
#8

Recommendations

: "Best Recommendations of formalist analysis, especially of surrealist, modernist, and experimental fiction?"
11 posts
#9

Analysis

: "Can someone help me parse this sentence from *Moby Dick*?"
10 posts
#10

Criticism

: "Book Recommendations regarding Literary Theory and Criticism"
10 posts

Products Discussed in r/AskLiteraryStudies

Novel

4 reviews
#1
Waterland
4.0 from 1 review
#2
Lincoln in the Bardo
5.0 from 1 review
#3
Everything Under
4.0 from 1 review

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Last updated: June 30, 2026