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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,754 ratings — published 1942
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,159 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,952 ratings — published 1927
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,125 ratings — published 1979
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,668 ratings — published 1983
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,967 ratings — published 1957
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,551 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,600 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,148 ratings — published 1957
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,464 ratings — published -335
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.54 — 24,761 ratings — published 2021
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.22 — 259,662 ratings — published 1929
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,601 ratings — published 1997
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,982 ratings — published 2003
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,479 ratings — published 1955
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,605 ratings — published 1994
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,366 ratings — published 1966
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,667 ratings — published 1980
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,604 ratings — published 1975
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,856 ratings — published 2000
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,975 ratings — published 1949
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,750 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,692 ratings — published 1998
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,055 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,058 ratings — published 1992
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,275 ratings — published 1961
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,645 ratings — published 1990
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,902 ratings — published 1973
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,331 ratings — published 1961
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,356 ratings — published 1991
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,891 ratings — published 1970
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,244 ratings — published 1960
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,973 ratings — published 1995
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,548 ratings — published 1965
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,738 ratings — published 1942
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,418 ratings — published 2016
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,290 ratings — published 1964
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,719 ratings — published 1988
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,141 ratings — published 2009
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.01 — 485 ratings — published 1950
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,483 ratings — published 1916
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.66 — 140,223 ratings — published 2003
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.92 — 803 ratings — published 1967
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,211 ratings — published 1979
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.41 — 480 ratings — published 1981
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.84 — 954 ratings — published 1957
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,677 ratings — published 2001
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,802 ratings — published 1993
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,574 ratings — published 2016
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,846 ratings — published 2006
“Never lightly assume that clarity is the unclouded aim of ... allegory.”
― Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode
― Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode
“People are not suppose to be able to understand your writing, they are only suppose to realise your writing is brilliant, because it might just be the cure for insomnia.”
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