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Literary Studies Books
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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 — 34,153 ratings — published 2003
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,768 ratings — published 1942
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,695 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 — 4,134 ratings — published 1979
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,625 ratings — published 1994
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,986 ratings — published 1995
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,622 ratings — published 1997
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,207 ratings — published 2008
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,752 ratings — published -335
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,971 ratings — published 1957
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,889 ratings — published 1978
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,445,635 ratings — published 1915
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,244 ratings — published 1949
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,968 ratings — published 1927
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,057,909 ratings — published 1601
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,675 ratings — published 1980
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 319,621 ratings — published 2000
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 359,238 ratings — published 1925
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,925 ratings — published 1973
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,606 ratings — published 1975
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,458 ratings — published 1970
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 178,042 ratings — published -441
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,760 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 — 28,027 ratings — published 1940
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,200,847 ratings — published -800
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,612 ratings — published 1992
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 303,008 ratings — published 1759
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,377 ratings — published 1991
Supernatural Horror in Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,369 ratings — published 1927
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,789 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 3.70 — 924 ratings — published 2018
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,486 ratings — published 1981
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,137 ratings — published 2001
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,511,471 ratings — published 1948
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 177,697 ratings — published 1914
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,257 ratings — published 1957
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 610 ratings — published 1930
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 144,220 ratings — published -19
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 659 ratings — published 1981
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,324 ratings — published 2002
Uses of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 350 ratings — published 2008
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 317,563 ratings — published 1947
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,576 ratings — published 1400
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,516 ratings — published 2016
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 59,260 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 — 792 ratings — published 800
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,666 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 — 806 ratings — published 1967
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,161 ratings — published 1982
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as literary-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,319 ratings — published 1964
“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
