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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,777 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,630 ratings — published 1994
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,697 ratings — published 1983
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,873 ratings — published -335
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,229 ratings — published 2003
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,973 ratings — published 1957
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,972 ratings — published 1927
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,233 ratings — published 2008
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,144 ratings — published 1979
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,711 ratings — published 1998
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,888 ratings — published 2000
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 30,045 ratings — published 1978
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,632 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,678 ratings — published 1980
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 265,600 ratings — published 1929
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,550 ratings — published 1955
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,934 ratings — published 1973
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,517 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,632 ratings — published 1997
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,385 ratings — published 1991
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,295 ratings — published 1957
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,518 ratings — published 2021
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 82 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,364 ratings — published 1961
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,757 ratings — published 1973
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,413 ratings — published 1960
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,074 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,119 ratings — published 1981
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,680 ratings — published 2013
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,609 ratings — published 1975
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,907 ratings — published 2006
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 874 ratings — published 1954
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,775 ratings — published 1942
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,135 ratings — published 2001
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,328 ratings — published 1964
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,324 ratings — published 2002
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,988 ratings — published 1995
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,343 ratings — published 1975
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,102 ratings — published 2004
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,666 ratings — published 1990
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,287 ratings — published 1961
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 610 ratings — published 1930
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,444 ratings — published 2000
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,984 ratings — published 1925
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,765 ratings — published 2008
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 55 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 464 ratings — published 1931
Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 830 ratings — published 1904
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,897 ratings — published 2004
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,050 ratings — published 1983
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 487 ratings — published 1950
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 960 ratings — published 1957
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