Anyone else read this book?Interesting book I just read, The Midnight Disease by Alice W. Flaherty. About the drive to write, writer's block, hypergraphia, temporal lobe epilepsy, and bipolar disorder.
For a short, readable and not too jargon-laden introduction to literary /critical theory:
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. University of Minnesota Press; 2nd edition (November 1996).