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Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in a sometimes negative, sometimes intelligible, (or articulate) way.

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Criticism Books

Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Anatomy of Criticism
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
A Room of One’s Own
Orientalism
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mythologies
How Fiction Works
Poetics
Aspects of the Novel
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"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoA Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. GreenfieldComedy by Robert W. CorriganAn Aristocracy of Critics by Stephen BatesCritical Enthusiasm by Jordana Rosenberg
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104 books — 4 voters
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath by James McNaughtonParisian Lives by Deirdre BairThe Philosophy of Samuel Beckett by John CalderSamuel Beckett and Music by Mary BrydenSamuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair
Beckettiae
49 books — 3 voters

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2021 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
159 books — 40 voters
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African American Literary Theory by Winston NapierThe Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Houston A. Baker Jr.What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. WarrenThe Black Aesthetic Unbound by April C.E. Langley
Literary Criticism on African-American Work
31 books — 5 voters
Let's Talk About Love by Carl WilsonIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Kim CooperExile on Main Street by Bill JanovitzDummy by R.J. WheatonDusty in Memphis by Warren Zanes
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139 books — 67 voters


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Susan Sontag
“ Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
― Susan Sontag
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“ I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. ...more ”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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