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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,860 ratings — published 1942
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,460 ratings — published 2008
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,767 ratings — published 1983
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,199 ratings — published 1979
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,086 ratings — published 1927
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,994 ratings — published 1957
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,801 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,397 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,671 ratings — published 1957
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,896 ratings — published -335
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,297 ratings — published 2003
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,425 ratings — published 2021
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,731 ratings — published 1997
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.22 — 281,001 ratings — published 1929
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,702 ratings — published 1994
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,948 ratings — published 1966
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,728 ratings — published 1955
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,946 ratings — published 2000
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,722 ratings — published 1980
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,627 ratings — published 1975
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,285 ratings — published 1949
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,785 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,740 ratings — published 1998
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,117 ratings — published 1992
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,311 ratings — published 1961
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,542 ratings — published 1991
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,931 ratings — published 1970
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,590 ratings — published 1960
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,748 ratings — published 1990
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,094 ratings — published 1973
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,214 ratings — published 2010
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,022 ratings — published 2016
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,587 ratings — published 1965
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,044 ratings — published 1995
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,477 ratings — published 1961
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,880 ratings — published 1942
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,530 ratings — published 1916
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,440 ratings — published 1964
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,187 ratings — published 1988
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,959 ratings — published 1993
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,984 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 — 826 ratings — published 1967
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,205 ratings — published 2009
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 495 ratings — published 1950
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.84 — 974 ratings — published 1957
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,717 ratings — published 2001
The Pound Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.40 — 720 ratings — published 1971
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,757 ratings — published 2016
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,772 ratings — published 2013
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.39 — 506 ratings — published 1981
“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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“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
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