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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
4.29 average rating, · 12.7k ratings
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Sara Lodge
4.45 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
4.14 average rating, · 10.8k ratings
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
4.29 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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S/Z: An Essay
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 3.9k ratings
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom
4.03 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera
4.05 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
Don Gifford
4.21 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Stephen Greenblatt
4.11 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
Stuart Gilbert
4.17 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
4.15 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.26 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Stephen King: The Art of Darkness
Douglas E. Winter
4.16 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges
4.31 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Vincent B. Leitch
4.13 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
Gilles Deleuze
4.15 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf
4.11 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Harold Bloom
4.24 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye
4.09 average rating, · 2k ratings
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The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis
4.09 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.26 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Marxism and Literature
Raymond Williams
4.07 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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