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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 — 35,063 ratings — published 2003
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,840 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,754 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 — 4,190 ratings — published 1979
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,706 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 — 3,695 ratings — published 1994
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,036 ratings — published 1995
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,408 ratings — published 2008
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,743 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,060 ratings — published 1927
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,991 ratings — published 1957
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,182 ratings — published 1978
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,533,540 ratings — published 1915
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,159 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 326,526 ratings — published 2002
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,085,497 ratings — published 1601
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,715 ratings — published 1980
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 372,429 ratings — published 1925
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,773 ratings — published 1992
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,506 ratings — published 1970
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,999 ratings — published -441
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,781 ratings — published 1973
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,517 ratings — published 1991
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,068 ratings — published 1973
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,628 ratings — published 1975
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,265,803 ratings — published -750
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 309,148 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 — 28,880 ratings — published 1940
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,412 ratings — published 1927
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,357 ratings — published 2002
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,127 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 — 965 ratings — published 2018
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 32,129 ratings — published 1981
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,754 ratings — published 2013
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,721,307 ratings — published 1949
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 184,483 ratings — published 1914
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 614 ratings — published 1930
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,982 ratings — published -19
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 674 ratings — published 1981
Uses of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 369 ratings — published 2008
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 330,270 ratings — published 1947
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,415 ratings — published 1400
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,944 ratings — published 2016
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,716 ratings — published 1782
The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.20 — 823 ratings — published 800
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,145 ratings — published 2001
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 824 ratings — published 1967
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,608 ratings — published 1957
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,230 ratings — published 1982
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 278,188 ratings — published 1929
“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
