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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,400 ratings — published 2003
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,865 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,771 ratings — published 1983
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 — 4,205 ratings — published 1979
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,742 ratings — published 1997
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,712 ratings — published 1994
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,048 ratings — published 1995
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,491 ratings — published 2008
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,520 ratings — published 1978
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,015 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,097 ratings — published 1927
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,996 ratings — published 1957
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,566,902 ratings — published 1915
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,369 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 328,468 ratings — published 2000
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,092,611 ratings — published 1601
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,731 ratings — published 1980
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 375,996 ratings — published 1925
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,108 ratings — published 1973
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,814 ratings — published 1992
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,513 ratings — published 1970
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,445 ratings — published -441
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,789 ratings — published 1973
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,088 ratings — published 1940
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,555 ratings — published 1991
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,629 ratings — published 1975
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,290,250 ratings — published -800
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 310,857 ratings — published 1759
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,432 ratings — published 1927
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,365 ratings — published 2002
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,524 ratings — published 1966
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.71 — 974 ratings — published 2018
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 32,281 ratings — published 1981
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,790 ratings — published 2013
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,779,550 ratings — published 1949
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 186,297 ratings — published 1914
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,248 ratings — published 1982
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 620 ratings — published 1930
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,222 ratings — published -19
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 680 ratings — published 1981
Uses of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 371 ratings — published 2008
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 334,131 ratings — published 1947
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,131 ratings — published 1400
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,059 ratings — published 2016
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 61,097 ratings — published 1782
The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.18 — 836 ratings — published 800
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,143 ratings — published 2001
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,310 ratings — published 1961
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 826 ratings — published 1967
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,713 ratings — published 1957
“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
“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
