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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,125 ratings — published 1966
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,610 ratings — published 1983
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 424,264 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,948 ratings — published 1957
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,571 ratings — published 1994
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,712 ratings — published 1942
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,857 ratings — published 1978
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 250,849 ratings — published 1929
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,913 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,348 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,016 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,899 ratings — published 1927
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,815 ratings — published -335
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,673 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,423 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,119 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,812 ratings — published 2000
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.70 — 20,436 ratings — published 2023
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,530 ratings — published 1997
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,072 ratings — published 1979
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,393 ratings — published 2003
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,899 ratings — published 1934
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,582 ratings — published 1990
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,336 ratings — published 2005
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,724 ratings — published 1973
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,621 ratings — published 1980
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,757 ratings — published 1985
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 596 ratings — published 1930
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,600 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,509 ratings — published 2003
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,413,719 ratings — published 1945
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,699 ratings — published 1993
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 458 ratings — published 1931
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,292 ratings — published 1991
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,064 ratings — published 1981
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,594 ratings — published 2013
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,426 ratings — published 1949
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,994 ratings — published 2010
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,684 ratings — published 1980
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,515 ratings — published 1988
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,938 ratings — published 1925
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,035,669 ratings — published 1932
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.54 — 23,672 ratings — published 2021
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,055 ratings — published 1936
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,305 ratings — published 2002
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,692 ratings — published 2011
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,021 ratings — published 1989
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,819 ratings — published 1987
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,124 ratings — published 2001
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,804 ratings — published 1973
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.”
― Jane Eyre
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.”
― Jane Eyre
“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
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