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Theory Criticism Books

Orientalism
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Poetics
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The Pleasure of the Text
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Ways of Seeing
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
A Room of One’s Own
Mythologies
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
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