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Works of Literary Criticism
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An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction
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Thomas J. Roberts
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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
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B.R. Myers
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The Art of Fiction
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America's Coming-of-Age
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When Is Something Fiction
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Antaeus #59: Literature as Pleasure
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Daniel Halpern
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Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Great Gatsby: A Collection of Critical Essays
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Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
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Harold Bloom
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Howards End: E.M. Forster's House of Fiction (Twayne's Masterwork Studies No. 93)
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Alistair M. Duckworth
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How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide
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John Sutherland
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German Question/Jewish Question: Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner
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Paul Lawrence Rose
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
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E.M. Forster's "Howards End": Fiction as History
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Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction
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Dale Peck
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A Reader’s Delight
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The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel
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George Eliot's Middlemarch
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Harold Bloom
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On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
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Edward W. Said
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Mann: Buddenbrooks
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The German Tradition in Literature 1871–1945
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Culture and Imperialism
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Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
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Against the American Grain: Essays of the Effects of Mass Culture
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From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
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Richard Ruland
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Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro
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Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro (Literary Conversations Series)
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The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
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Norman Mailer
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
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Jonathan D. Culler
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Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology
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The Nature of Narrative
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The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises
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Yvor Winters
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Enemies of Promise
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Cyril Connolly
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Reading America: Essays on American Literature
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The Poet's Self and the Poem: Essays on Goethe, Nietzsche, Rilke and Thomas Mann
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Erich Heller
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The German Tradition of Self-Cultivation: 'Bildung' from Humboldt to Thomas Mann
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Walter Horace Bruford
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Theory of Literature
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The Uses of Literature
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Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism
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The Literature of the United States
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Paul Scott: Images of India
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Goethe: A Very Short Introduction
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
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Concerning E. M. Forster
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Conversations with John Cheever (Literary Conversations Series)
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The Love Affair as a Work of Art
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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Solzhenitsyn's Religion
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