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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison
4.33 average rating, · 7.7k ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
4.00 average rating, · 7.6k ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell
4.13 average rating, · 6.2k ratings
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
James Shapiro
4.08 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert
4.21 average rating, · 4.2k 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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Harry Potter and History
Nancy R. Reagin
4.35 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
C.S. Lewis
4.29 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
4.15 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom
4.03 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
James Shapiro
4.10 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Janet Malcolm
4.05 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
Maureen Corrigan
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Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
Corey Olsen
4.23 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
Francine Prose
4.15 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Stephen Greenblatt
4.11 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
James Shapiro
4.07 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
Isaiah Berlin
4.01 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
4.15 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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Winter Is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones
Carolyne Larrington
4.49 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
James Shapiro
4.04 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Üç Büyük Usta: Balzac - Dickens - Dostoyevski
Stefan Zweig
4.11 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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The Roots of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
4.32 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.26 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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