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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,926 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,764 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 454,935 ratings — published 1972
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,853 ratings — published 1942
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,992 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,701 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 280,413 ratings — published 1929
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,349 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,658 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,722 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,444 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,082 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,854 ratings — published -335
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,402 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,737 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,794 ratings — published 1992
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,946 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 24,709 ratings — published 2023
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,785 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,723 ratings — published 1997
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,447 ratings — published 2003
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,746 ratings — published 1990
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,968 ratings — published 1934
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,722 ratings — published 1980
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,198 ratings — published 1979
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 617 ratings — published 1930
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,486 ratings — published 1985
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,759 ratings — published 2005
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,758 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 35,254 ratings — published 2003
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,032 ratings — published 1925
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,797,386 ratings — published 1945
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,534 ratings — published 1991
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 473 ratings — published 1931
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,004 ratings — published 2016
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,958 ratings — published 1993
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,381 ratings — published 2021
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,164 ratings — published 1981
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,311 ratings — published 1961
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,258 ratings — published 1949
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,087 ratings — published 1973
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,150,411 ratings — published 1932
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,753 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,876 ratings — published 2011
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,476 ratings — published 1961
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,771 ratings — published 2013
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,209 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,434 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,175 ratings — published 1988
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,881 ratings — published 2019
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
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“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”
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