r/badliterarystudies
4k members
r/badliterarystudies is a subreddit with 4k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses literature, literary criticism, classics, books, and shakespeare.
A place where the Illiterati congregate, in their grand conspiracy to trick logical upstanding redditors into thinking that the author is dead and that books exist which aren't 1984 and Brave New World.
Popular Themes in r/badliterarystudies
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Guy is angry he had to read The Bell Jar instead of Lord of the Rings - this is somehow indicative of the War On Boys"
7 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Question: Who Killed the Liberal Arts?"
1 post
#3
Ideas
: "Instead of Great Gatsby, high school kids should read Fast Food Nation"
1 post
#4
Opportunities
: "[META] Should we create a list of required reading?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/badliterarystudies
#1
Literature
: "You are now an expert in modern English Literature"
41 posts
#2
Literary Criticism
: "In which Stephen Pinker explains the "decline" of Literary Criticism in the 20th century with "they stopped caring about le human nature, man""
30 posts
#3
Classics
: "Shockingly enough, an Ask Reddit thread about sucky literary "Classics" is a goldmine of bad literary studies."
29 posts
#4
Books
: "/r/Books proves yet again that they hate when Books have meaning."
14 posts
#5
Shakespeare
: "Oscar Wilde. Hemingway. Romantics. Victorians. Shakespeare. Bleh... A new English teacher who doesn't see any merit in actually teaching English literature."
8 posts
#6
Reading
: "Why read a book set in Jamaica when you can spend three days travelling to Jamaica instead? An economist on the marginal utility of Reading literature."
7 posts
#7
Literary Studies
: "Literary Studies are both "lucrative" and a "hustle""
5 posts
#8
Poetry
: "Poetry is awful self indulgent nonsense. It isn't very creative and liking it is pretentious. It's like when someone reads Poetry to an audience and they say oooh and ahhh it makes me want to rip my eyes out"
5 posts
#9
Postmodernism
: "In which Postmodernism is nothing but a stupid feminist circlejerk, and all literary studies can be done by anyone with a BA and a blog"
3 posts
#10
English Literature
: "Oscar Wilde. Hemingway. Romantics. Victorians. Shakespeare. Bleh... A new English teacher who doesn't see any merit in actually teaching English Literature."
3 posts
Flair Used in r/badliterarystudies
#1
curtains are blue
: ""To paraphrase another saying, when the author describes hearing hooves, and then tells you it's a horse, don't tell the author it's a zebra." QED"
3 posts
#2
muh canon!
: ""Here's a challenge- name me the five greatest Nigerian books ever written.""
2 posts
#3
reading sucks
: "/r/books, your hate of your high school reading list is showing."
1 post
#4
jokes on us
: "Lolita without all the icky pedophilia"
1 post
#5
symbolism is evil
: ""Don't over think it, just read for pleasure" is one of the top responses to an earnest desire to understand complex texts better... in /r/literature"
1 post
#6
reading fetischism
: "Bro, do you even lift?"
1 post
#7
refusal of the call
: "In which the only literary theorist Reddit has ever heard of is taken out of the mothballs, and vindicated by movie franchises."
1 post
#8
Literati Cabal
: "Literary studies are both "lucrative" and a "hustle""
1 post
Member Growth in r/badliterarystudies
Yearly
+8 members(0.2%)
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Last updated: June 16, 2026