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Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,779 ratings — published 1983
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,759 ratings — published 1997
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,163 ratings — published -335
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,877 ratings — published 1942
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,748 ratings — published 1957
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,126 ratings — published 1973
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,053 ratings — published 1995
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,996 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,518 ratings — published 2008
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,804 ratings — published 2013
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,629 ratings — published 1975
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,947 ratings — published 1970
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,214 ratings — published 1979
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,110 ratings — published 1927
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,534 ratings — published 1916
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,143 ratings — published 2001
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,645 ratings — published 1978
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,774 ratings — published 1955
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 41 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,589 ratings — published 1967
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,717 ratings — published 1994
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,793 ratings — published 1973
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,624 ratings — published 1991
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,152 ratings — published 1976
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,631 ratings — published 1960
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,187 ratings — published 1980
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,515 ratings — published 1970
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,484 ratings — published 2003
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,422 ratings — published 1967
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,314 ratings — published 1961
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,543 ratings — published 1998
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,056 ratings — published 1966
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,966 ratings — published 2000
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 284,694 ratings — published 1929
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,970 ratings — published 1967
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,830 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,738 ratings — published 1980
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,978 ratings — published 1953
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,214 ratings — published 1963
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,594 ratings — published 1965
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 551 ratings — published 1979
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 914 ratings — published 1960
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 280 ratings — published 1925
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,844 ratings — published 1977
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,264 ratings — published 1928
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,879 ratings — published 1977
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,985 ratings — published 1993
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,186 ratings — published 1981
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,688 ratings — published 1977
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,114 ratings — published 2016
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 887 ratings — published 1954
“Language is a work of astonishing creativity. It is by far the most magnificent artefact humanity has ever come up with. It even surpasses the movies of Mel Gibson in this respect.”
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“China is not a country or a language but a world—the kind of parallel world in which Leibniz would have wanted to carry out experiments on causality and Providence.”
― The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic
― The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic
