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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene)
by Sandra M. Gilbert (shelved 13 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.23 — 491 ratings — published 1980
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom (shelved 13 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 770 ratings — published 1998
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom (shelved 12 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 498 ratings — published 1994
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Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by Terry Eagleton (shelved 10 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 472 ratings — published 1983
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Paperback)
by Northrop Frye (shelved 9 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 250 ratings — published 1957
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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom (shelved 8 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 358 ratings — published 2002
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by Edward W. Said (shelved 8 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,469 ratings — published 1978
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A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Virginia Woolf (shelved 8 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,143 ratings — published 1929
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How Fiction Works (Hardcover)
by James Wood (shelved 8 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,224 ratings — published 2008
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The Poetics (Paperback)
by Aristotle (shelved 8 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 335
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by Erich Auerbach (shelved 7 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.36 — 343 ratings — published 1946
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by Thomas C. Foster (shelved 7 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,794 ratings — published 2003
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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom (shelved 7 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 346 ratings — published 1973
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Ulysses Annotated (Paperback)
by Don Gifford (shelved 7 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 479 ratings — published 1974
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The Art of the Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Milan Kundera (shelved 6 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,047 ratings — published 1988
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)
by Francine Prose (shelved 6 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,559 ratings — published 2006
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Classics for Pleasure (Hardcover)
by Michael Dirda (shelved 6 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 172 ratings — published 2007
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by Stephen Greenblatt (shelved 6 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,458 ratings — published 2004
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork (cloth)
by Joseph Campbell (shelved 6 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 238 ratings — published 1944
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by Azar Nafisi (Goodreads author) (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.40 — 28,136 ratings — published 2003
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ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by Ezra Pound (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 441 ratings — published 1951
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How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.52 — 656 ratings — published 2000
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How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel (Paperback)
by Alain de Botton (Goodreads author) (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,768 ratings — published 2003
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The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by Roland Barthes (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 671 ratings — published 1383
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Paperback)
by T.A. Shippey (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 241 ratings — published 2000
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Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Hardcover)
by Toni Morrison (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 859 ratings — published 1992
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Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by Vladimir Nabokov (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 420 ratings — published 1980
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James Joyce's Ulysses (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stuart Gilbert (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 345 ratings — published 1955
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays (Paperback)
by Susan Sontag (shelved 5 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 880 ratings — published 1981
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (Abridged)
by Jan Needle (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.68 — 54 ratings — published 1897
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by Ian P. Watt (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.59 — 71 ratings — published 1957
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Paperback)
by Richard Hugo (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 558 ratings — published 1979
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (Hardcover)
by Pierre Bayard (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.36 — 848 ratings — published 2007
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The Monsters and the Critics (Paperback)
by J.R.R. Tolkien (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 240 ratings — published 1983
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The Great War and Modern Memory (Paperback)
by Paul Fussell (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 455 ratings — published 1975
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by Walter Benjamin (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,365 ratings — published 1968
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)
by Northrop Frye (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 78 ratings — published 1947
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The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia (Hardcover)
by Laura Miller (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 738 ratings — published 2008
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (Paperback)
by Margaret Atwood (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.84 — 100 ratings — published 1972
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Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Paperback)
by Nancy Armstrong (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.72 — 61 ratings — published 1987
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Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (Paperback)
by Michael Dirda (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 201 ratings — published 2006
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Maps and Legends (Hardcover)
by Michael Chabon (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,888 ratings — published 2008
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Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism (Paperback)
by Rose A. Zimbardo (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 44 ratings — published 2004
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Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (Paperback)
by Edmund Wilson (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 90 ratings — published 1931
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Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments (Paperback)
by Michael Dirda (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 77 ratings — published 2000
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The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by Wayne C. Booth (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 167 ratings — published 1000
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Sexual Personae (Nota Bene)
by Camille Paglia (shelved 4 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 579 ratings — published 1990
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2 (Hardcover)
by Isaac Asimov (shelved 3 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 306 ratings — published 1970
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Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature (Paperback)
by Edmund Wilson (shelved 3 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 21 ratings — published 1997
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The Polysyllabic Spree (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 3 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,075 ratings — published 2004
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"For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short. Then the Readers die one by one and the Work continues on alone, although a new Criticism and new Readers gradually fall into step with it along its path. Then Criticism dies again and the Readers die again and the Work passes over a trail of bones on its journey toward solitude. To come near the work, to sail in her wake, is a sign of certain death, but new Criticism and new Readers approach her tirelessly and relentlessly and are devoured by time and speed. Finally the Work journeys irremediably alone in the Great Vastness. And one day the Work dies, as all things must die and come to an end: the Sun and the Earth and the Solar System and the Galaxy and the farthest reaches of man's memory. Everything that begins as comedy ends in tragedy."
— Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives)
— Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives)
"There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point of view of the content."
— Marco Mincoff (A History of English Literature)
— Marco Mincoff (A History of English Literature)
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The Daughter Figure as Savior in King Lear
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