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Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,752 ratings — published 1983
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,698 ratings — published 1997
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,679 ratings — published -335
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,585 ratings — published 1957
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,058 ratings — published 1973
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,835 ratings — published 1942
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,035 ratings — published 1995
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,990 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,396 ratings — published 2008
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,742 ratings — published 2013
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,928 ratings — published 1970
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,625 ratings — published 1975
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,057 ratings — published 1927
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,520 ratings — published 1916
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,189 ratings — published 1979
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,692 ratings — published 1955
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,144 ratings — published 2001
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,112 ratings — published 1978
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 40 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,518 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 — 3,692 ratings — published 1994
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,781 ratings — published 1973
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,600 ratings — published 1991
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,556 ratings — published 1960
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,147 ratings — published 1980
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,505 ratings — published 1970
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,142 ratings — published 1976
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 — 34,933 ratings — published 2003
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,305 ratings — published 1961
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,529 ratings — published 1998
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,836 ratings — published 1966
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,397 ratings — published 1967
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,932 ratings — published 2000
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 277,009 ratings — published 1929
Writing and Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,954 ratings — published 1967
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,755 ratings — published 1992
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,713 ratings — published 1980
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,203 ratings — published 1963
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,588 ratings — published 1965
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 545 ratings — published 1979
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,957 ratings — published 1953
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 912 ratings — published 1960
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 278 ratings — published 1925
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,831 ratings — published 1977
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,236 ratings — published 1928
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,601 ratings — published 1977
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,933 ratings — published 1993
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,172 ratings — published 1981
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,688 ratings — published 1977
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,109 ratings — published 1992
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as literary-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,921 ratings — published 2016
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