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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,777 ratings — published 1942
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,235 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,973 ratings — published 1927
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 — 4,144 ratings — published 1979
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,697 ratings — published 1983
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,973 ratings — published 1957
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,632 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.13 — 30,048 ratings — published 1978
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,295 ratings — published 1957
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,874 ratings — published -335
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.22 — 265,630 ratings — published 1929
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,229 ratings — published 2003
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,520 ratings — published 2021
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,549 ratings — published 1955
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,632 ratings — published 1997
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,630 ratings — published 1994
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,517 ratings — published 1966
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,678 ratings — published 1980
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,609 ratings — published 1975
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,888 ratings — published 2000
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,366 ratings — published 1949
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,757 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,711 ratings — published 1998
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.72 — 6,098 ratings — published 2010
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,386 ratings — published 1991
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,074 ratings — published 1992
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,287 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 — 3,666 ratings — published 1990
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,907 ratings — published 1970
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,413 ratings — published 1960
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,988 ratings — published 1995
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,934 ratings — published 1973
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,364 ratings — published 1961
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,560 ratings — published 1965
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,775 ratings — published 1942
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,560 ratings — published 2016
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,329 ratings — published 1964
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,832 ratings — published 1988
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,166 ratings — published 2009
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.00 — 487 ratings — published 1950
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,492 ratings — published 1916
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.66 — 141,071 ratings — published 2003
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.91 — 809 ratings — published 1967
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,623 ratings — published 2016
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.41 — 487 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 — 960 ratings — published 1957
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,686 ratings — published 2001
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,850 ratings — published 1993
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,295 ratings — published 1979
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as lit-crit)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,680 ratings — published 2013
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens. [...] If it were possible I would like to devote fifty minutes of every class meeting to mute meditation, concentration, and admiration of Dickens. However, my job is to direct and rationalize those meditations, that admiration. All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.”
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“I can tell how good a novel is by how it portrays Jesus.”
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