r/AskLiteraryStudies
54k members
r/askliterarystudies is a subreddit with 54k 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 and book/textbook.
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?"
21 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
17 posts
#3
Phd
: "Phd student in English Literature needs help and has lost direction."
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
: "The importance of digressions in Fiction"
11 posts
#7
Translation
: "What did the New Critics mean by "tension"?"
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
Book/textbook
1 review
#1
Thomas C Foster
4.0★ from 1 review
Member Growth in r/AskLiteraryStudies
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+7k members(14.3%)
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Last updated: June 2, 2026