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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,812 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 — 3,674 ratings — published 1994
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,740 ratings — published 1983
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,390 ratings — published -335
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,983 ratings — published 1957
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,650 ratings — published 2003
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,362 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,012 ratings — published 1927
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 — 4,171 ratings — published 1979
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,721 ratings — published 1998
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,739 ratings — published 1978
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,919 ratings — published 2000
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,713 ratings — published 1992
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 272,531 ratings — published 1929
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,700 ratings — published 1980
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,638 ratings — published 1955
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,708 ratings — published 1966
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,015 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,669 ratings — published 1997
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,454 ratings — published 1991
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,540 ratings — published 2021
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,472 ratings — published 1957
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 82 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,424 ratings — published 1961
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,502 ratings — published 1960
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,772 ratings — published 1973
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,100 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,140 ratings — published 1981
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,717 ratings — published 2013
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,620 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 3.78 — 12,044 ratings — published 2006
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,373 ratings — published 1964
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,829 ratings — published 1942
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 879 ratings — published 1954
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,144 ratings — published 2001
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,345 ratings — published 2002
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,020 ratings — published 1995
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage)
by (shelved 62 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,388 ratings — published 1975
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,706 ratings — published 1990
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,111 ratings — published 2004
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,301 ratings — published 1961
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,007 ratings — published 1925
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 323,953 ratings — published 2000
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 613 ratings — published 1930
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 466 ratings — published 1931
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,808 ratings — published 2008
Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 839 ratings — published 1904
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,980 ratings — published 2004
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,067 ratings — published 1983
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 491 ratings — published 1950
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 968 ratings — published 1957
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”
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