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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,865 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,753 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 452,409 ratings — published 1972
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,840 ratings — published 1942
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,991 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,695 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 277,850 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,155 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,600 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,702 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,405 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,059 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,730 ratings — published -335
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,738 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,768 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,078 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,938 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 24,438 ratings — published 2023
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,277 ratings — published 2003
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,780 ratings — published 1973
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,739 ratings — published 1990
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,702 ratings — published 1997
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,961 ratings — published 1934
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,715 ratings — published 1980
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,190 ratings — published 1979
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,149 ratings — published 1985
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,580 ratings — published 2005
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 614 ratings — published 1930
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,751 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,024 ratings — published 2003
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,025 ratings — published 1925
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,775,268 ratings — published 1945
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,514 ratings — published 1991
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 472 ratings — published 1931
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,941 ratings — published 2016
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,941 ratings — published 1993
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,187 ratings — published 2021
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,157 ratings — published 1981
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,141 ratings — published 1949
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,066 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,141,572 ratings — published 1932
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,858 ratings — published 2011
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,305 ratings — published 1961
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,463 ratings — published 1961
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,735 ratings — published 2016
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,754 ratings — published 2013
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.72 — 6,195 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,032 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,107 ratings — published 1988
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,588 ratings — published 1965
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
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“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop.”
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