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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,812 ratings — published 1942
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,362 ratings — published 2008
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,172 ratings — published 1979
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,012 ratings — published 1927
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,742 ratings — published 1983
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,983 ratings — published 1957
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,714 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,763 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,474 ratings — published 1957
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,403 ratings — published -335
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.53 — 26,575 ratings — published 2021
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.22 — 272,750 ratings — published 1929
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,651 ratings — published 2003
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,670 ratings — published 1997
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,675 ratings — published 1994
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,639 ratings — published 1955
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,713 ratings — published 1966
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,700 ratings — published 1980
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,620 ratings — published 1975
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,921 ratings — published 2000
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,855 ratings — published 1949
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,772 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,720 ratings — published 1998
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,454 ratings — published 1991
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.71 — 6,153 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,102 ratings — published 1992
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,301 ratings — published 1961
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,708 ratings — published 1990
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,922 ratings — published 1970
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,503 ratings — published 1960
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,019 ratings — published 1995
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,017 ratings — published 1973
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,578 ratings — published 1965
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,425 ratings — published 1961
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,831 ratings — published 1942
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,787 ratings — published 2016
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,986 ratings — published 1988
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,377 ratings — published 1964
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,180 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 — 1,708 ratings — published 2001
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,511 ratings — published 1916
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,574 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 — 816 ratings — published 1967
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,687 ratings — published 2016
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.40 — 497 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 — 968 ratings — published 1957
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,907 ratings — published 1993
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,719 ratings — published 2013
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.78 — 12,046 ratings — published 2006
“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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