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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 3,756 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 — 33,990 ratings — published 2003
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,470 ratings — published -335
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,671 ratings — published 1983
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,481 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,158 ratings — published 2008
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,952 ratings — published 1927
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,604 ratings — published 1975
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,368 ratings — published 1966
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,483 ratings — published 1916
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,691 ratings — published 1993
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,330 ratings — published 1960
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,149 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 — 4,124 ratings — published 1979
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,606 ratings — published 1994
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,577 ratings — published 2016
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,668 ratings — published 1980
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,334 ratings — published 1994
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.95 — 524 ratings — published 1979
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,554 ratings — published 1992
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,616 ratings — published 1978
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,967 ratings — published 1957
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.22 — 259,886 ratings — published 1929
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,604 ratings — published 1997
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,855 ratings — published 2000
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,902 ratings — published 1973
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,318 ratings — published 2002
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,043 ratings — published 1986
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.54 — 24,783 ratings — published 2021
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,960 ratings — published 2020
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,331 ratings — published 1961
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,168 ratings — published 1963
War and the Iliad (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.09 — 928 ratings — published 1940
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,642 ratings — published 2013
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,276 ratings — published 1967
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,236 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 — 1,185 ratings — published 1999
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,928 ratings — published 1934
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,805 ratings — published 1993
The Pound Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.39 — 699 ratings — published 1971
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,061 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 4.09 — 463 ratings — published 1931
This Craft of Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,953 ratings — published 1992
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,891 ratings — published 1970
Marxism and Literary Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,114 ratings — published 1976
Marxism and Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,676 ratings — published 1977
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,500 ratings — published 1988
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.13 — 54,253 ratings — published 1997
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 4.08 — 639 ratings — published 1985
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as litcrit)
avg rating 3.82 — 670 ratings — published 1984
“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.)”
― Lectures on Literature
― Lectures on Literature
“It is problematic because, taken together, the whole--composed of lies and truth--forms a truth of its own.”
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