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Criticism

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
Orientalism
A Room of One’s Own
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Mythologies
How Fiction Works
Aspects of the Novel
Poetics
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. GreenSee Me Naked by Tara T. GreenYou Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale HurstonFinding Me by Viola DavisBlack Flora by Teresa J. Speight
2022 Nonfiction Books by African-Americans
111 books — 16 voters
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
30 books — 4 voters

"Bir Gül Bu Karanlıklarda" by Abdullah UçmanZaman ve Hafızanın Kıyısında by Şerif EskinTanpınar'ın Şiir Dünyası by Mehmet KaplanYavaş Yavaş Aydınlanan Tanpınar by Mehmet KaplanKayıp Zamanın İzinde Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar by Mehmet Aydın
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
32 books — 1 voter
The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark FrostThe Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer LynchTwin Peaks by Mark FrostReflections by Brad Dukes"Diane..." - The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper by Scott Frost
MARK FROST & DAVID LYNCH'S TWIN PEAKS ^◊^
55 books — 26 voters


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“ Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. ...more ”
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François de La Rochefoucauld
“ If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. ”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
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