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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,745 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,663 ratings — published 1983
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,899 ratings — published 2003
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,112 ratings — published 1979
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,598 ratings — published 1994
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,591 ratings — published 1997
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,969 ratings — published 1995
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,139 ratings — published 2008
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,963 ratings — published 1957
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,407,767 ratings — published 1915
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,881 ratings — published 1949
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,947 ratings — published 1927
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,477 ratings — published 1978
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,658 ratings — published 1980
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,378 ratings — published -335
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 316,618 ratings — published 2000
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,044,244 ratings — published 1601
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 354,382 ratings — published 1925
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,892 ratings — published 1973
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,602 ratings — published 1975
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,450 ratings — published 1970
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 175,706 ratings — published -441
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,747 ratings — published 1973
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,184,203 ratings — published -700
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 300,230 ratings — published 1759
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,716 ratings — published 1940
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,350 ratings — published 1991
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,351 ratings — published 1927
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,539 ratings — published 1992
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,404 ratings — published 1966
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,205 ratings — published 1981
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,135 ratings — published 2001
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,407,407 ratings — published 1949
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 175,030 ratings — published 1914
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,112 ratings — published 1957
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 605 ratings — published 1930
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,834 ratings — published -19
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 654 ratings — published 1981
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,314 ratings — published 2002
Uses of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 347 ratings — published 2008
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 312,394 ratings — published 1947
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.53 — 237,332 ratings — published 1400
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,355 ratings — published 2016
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 58,656 ratings — published 1782
The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.19 — 778 ratings — published 800
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 909 ratings — published 2018
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,629 ratings — published 2013
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 802 ratings — published 1967
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,276 ratings — published 1964
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 303,843 ratings — published 1615
“Assim, logo que nosso pensamento encontrou palavras, ele já deixa de ser algo íntimo, algo sério no nível mais profundo. Quando ele começa a existir para os outros, para de viver em nós, da mesma maneira que o filho se separa da mãe quando passa a ter sua existência própria.”
― A Arte de Escrever
― A Arte de Escrever
“Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.”
― Making History
― Making History
