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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
4.29 average rating, · 12.7k ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
4.14 average rating, · 10.8k ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
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Image - Music - Text
Roland Barthes
4.09 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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A Horse at Night: On Writing
Amina Cain
4.00 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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The Roots of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
4.32 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
George Orwell
4.21 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
Oscar Wilde
4.12 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
Susan Sontag
4.02 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Essays One
Lydia Davis
4.28 average rating, · 818 ratings
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This Little Art
Kate Briggs
4.29 average rating, · 806 ratings
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
Northrop Frye
4.34 average rating, · 777 ratings
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Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide
John Barton
4.38 average rating, · 630 ratings
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