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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,832 ratings — published 1942
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,920 ratings — published 2003
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,751 ratings — published 1983
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,669 ratings — published -335
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,686 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,394 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,054 ratings — published 1927
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,626 ratings — published 1975
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,831 ratings — published 1966
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,712 ratings — published 1980
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,520 ratings — published 1916
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,171 ratings — published 1993
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,553 ratings — published 1960
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,579 ratings — published 1957
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,189 ratings — published 1979
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,692 ratings — published 1994
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,731 ratings — published 2016
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,435 ratings — published 1994
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.93 — 545 ratings — published 1979
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,754 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,093 ratings — published 1978
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,990 ratings — published 1957
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.22 — 276,810 ratings — published 1929
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,696 ratings — published 1997
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,930 ratings — published 2000
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,056 ratings — published 1973
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,355 ratings — published 2002
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,587 ratings — published 1965
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.56 — 5,016 ratings — published 1986
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,077 ratings — published 2021
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,249 ratings — published 2020
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,339 ratings — published 2019
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,454 ratings — published 1961
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,203 ratings — published 1963
Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,473 ratings — published 1986
War and the Iliad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,003 ratings — published 1940
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,738 ratings — published 2013
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,518 ratings — published 1967
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,193 ratings — published 1871
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,204 ratings — published 1999
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,960 ratings — published 1934
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,931 ratings — published 1993
The Pound Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.40 — 714 ratings — published 1971
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,109 ratings — published 1992
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.08 — 470 ratings — published 1931
This Craft of Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,013 ratings — published 1992
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,928 ratings — published 1970
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,142 ratings — published 1976
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,688 ratings — published 1977
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,517 ratings — published 1988
“It is problematic because, taken together, the whole--composed of lies and truth--forms a truth of its own.”
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“He approaches a cockroach in only one respect: his coloration is brown. That is all. Apart from this he has a tremendous convex belly divided into segments and a hard rounded back suggestive of wing cases. In beetles these cases conceal flimsy little wings that can be expanded and then may carry the beetle for miles and miles in a blundering flight. Curiously enough, Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back. (This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your lives. Some Gregors, some Joes and Janes, do not know that they have wings.)”
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