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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 3,754 ratings — published 1942
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 33,988 ratings — published 2003
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 29,465 ratings — published -335
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,669 ratings — published 1983
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 12,480 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,159 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,952 ratings — published 1927
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,604 ratings — published 1975
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,368 ratings — published 1966
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,483 ratings — published 1916
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 131,683 ratings — published 1993
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 7,245 ratings — published 1960
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,148 ratings — published 1957
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,125 ratings — published 1979
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,606 ratings — published 1994
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,576 ratings — published 2016
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,667 ratings — published 1980
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,333 ratings — published 1994
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.95 — 524 ratings — published 1979
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 7,551 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 29,608 ratings — published 1978
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,967 ratings — published 1957
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.22 — 259,778 ratings — published 1929
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,601 ratings — published 1997
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,856 ratings — published 2000
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,902 ratings — published 1973
On Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,318 ratings — published 2002
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,040 ratings — published 1986
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.54 — 24,771 ratings — published 2021
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,960 ratings — published 2020
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,331 ratings — published 1961
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,167 ratings — published 1963
War and the Iliad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 928 ratings — published 1940
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,643 ratings — published 2013
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,276 ratings — published 1967
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 21,233 ratings — published 1871
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,185 ratings — published 1999
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,928 ratings — published 1934
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,803 ratings — published 1993
The Pound Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.39 — 699 ratings — published 1971
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,060 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 — 463 ratings — published 1931
This Craft of Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,952 ratings — published 1992
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,891 ratings — published 1970
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,114 ratings — published 1976
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,676 ratings — published 1977
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,500 ratings — published 1988
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 54,238 ratings — published 1997
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.08 — 639 ratings — published 1985
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 670 ratings — published 1984
“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
“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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