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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,832 ratings — published 1942
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,394 ratings — published 2008
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,189 ratings — published 1979
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,751 ratings — published 1983
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,054 ratings — published 1927
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,990 ratings — published 1957
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,752 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,092 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,579 ratings — published 1957
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,667 ratings — published -335
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,918 ratings — published 2003
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,075 ratings — published 2021
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.22 — 276,781 ratings — published 1929
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,696 ratings — published 1997
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,692 ratings — published 1994
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,685 ratings — published 1955
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,830 ratings — published 1966
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,712 ratings — published 1980
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,626 ratings — published 1975
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,929 ratings — published 2000
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,081 ratings — published 1949
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,781 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,735 ratings — published 1998
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,502 ratings — published 1991
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,305 ratings — published 1961
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,185 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,109 ratings — published 1992
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,736 ratings — published 1990
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,928 ratings — published 1970
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,553 ratings — published 1960
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,034 ratings — published 1995
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,056 ratings — published 1973
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,917 ratings — published 2016
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,587 ratings — published 1965
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,454 ratings — published 1961
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,857 ratings — published 1942
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,080 ratings — published 1988
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,519 ratings — published 1916
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,406 ratings — published 1964
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,196 ratings — published 2009
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 492 ratings — published 1950
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,714 ratings — published 2001
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,932 ratings — published 1993
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,241 ratings — published 2003
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.92 — 821 ratings — published 1967
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,731 ratings — published 2016
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,738 ratings — published 2013
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.40 — 501 ratings — published 1981
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.85 — 973 ratings — published 1957
The Pound Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.40 — 714 ratings — published 1971
“People are not suppose to be able to understand your writing, they are only suppose to realise your writing is brilliant, because it might just be the cure for insomnia.”
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“Never lightly assume that clarity is the unclouded aim of ... allegory.”
― Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode
― Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode
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