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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,860 ratings — published 1942
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,301 ratings — published 2003
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,767 ratings — published 1983
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,897 ratings — published -335
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,460 ratings — published 2008
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,728 ratings — published 1955
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,627 ratings — published 1975
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,086 ratings — published 1927
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,199 ratings — published 1979
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,951 ratings — published 1966
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,722 ratings — published 1980
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,530 ratings — published 1916
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,720 ratings — published 1993
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,591 ratings — published 1960
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,671 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,702 ratings — published 1994
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,757 ratings — published 2016
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,477 ratings — published 1961
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,458 ratings — published 1994
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.93 — 548 ratings — published 1979
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,801 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,399 ratings — published 1978
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,994 ratings — published 1957
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.22 — 281,019 ratings — published 1929
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,732 ratings — published 1997
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,946 ratings — published 2000
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,094 ratings — published 1973
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,360 ratings — published 2002
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,587 ratings — published 1965
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.56 — 5,213 ratings — published 1986
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,429 ratings — published 2021
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,297 ratings — published 2020
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,364 ratings — published 2019
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,207 ratings — published 1963
Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,643 ratings — published 1986
War and the Iliad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,025 ratings — published 1940
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,773 ratings — published 2013
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,555 ratings — published 1967
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,429 ratings — published 1871
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,206 ratings — published 1999
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,968 ratings — published 1934
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,959 ratings — published 1993
The Pound Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.40 — 720 ratings — published 1971
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,118 ratings — published 1992
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 473 ratings — published 1931
This Craft of Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,021 ratings — published 1992
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,311 ratings — published 1961
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,931 ratings — published 1970
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,149 ratings — published 1976
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,688 ratings — published 1977
“We may exhort ourselves to read tolerantly, we may quote Coleridge on the willing suspension of disbelief until we think ourselves totally suspended in a relativistic universe, and still we will find many books which postulate readers we refuse to become, books that depend on 'beliefs' or 'attitudes'...which we cannot adopt even hypothetically as our own.”
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“He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.)”
― Lectures on Literature
― Lectures on Literature