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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,860 ratings — published 1942
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,896 ratings — published -335
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,767 ratings — published 1983
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,702 ratings — published 1994
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,994 ratings — published 1957
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,296 ratings — published 2003
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,086 ratings — published 1927
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,460 ratings — published 2008
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,199 ratings — published 1979
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,740 ratings — published 1998
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,397 ratings — published 1978
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,946 ratings — published 2000
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,801 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,722 ratings — published 1980
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 280,998 ratings — published 1929
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,948 ratings — published 1966
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,728 ratings — published 1955
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,094 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,731 ratings — published 1997
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,542 ratings — published 1991
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,671 ratings — published 1957
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,425 ratings — published 2021
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 83 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,477 ratings — published 1961
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,590 ratings — published 1960
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,117 ratings — published 1992
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,785 ratings — published 1973
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,154 ratings — published 2006
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,168 ratings — published 1981
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,772 ratings — published 2013
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,627 ratings — published 1975
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,440 ratings — published 1964
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,145 ratings — published 2001
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 886 ratings — published 1954
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,880 ratings — published 1942
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,360 ratings — published 2002
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,044 ratings — published 1995
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,125 ratings — published 2004
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
by (shelved 63 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,439 ratings — published 1975
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 62 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,748 ratings — published 1990
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,311 ratings — published 1961
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,034 ratings — published 1925
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 327,724 ratings — published 2000
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 473 ratings — published 1931
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,839 ratings — published 2008
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 618 ratings — published 1930
Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 847 ratings — published 1904
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,057 ratings — published 2004
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,081 ratings — published 1983
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 495 ratings — published 1950
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,983 ratings — published 2003
“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
― Black Swan Green
― Black Swan Green
“Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.”
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