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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
4.29 average rating, · 12.7k ratings
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The Girl Who Was on Fire
Leah Wilson
4.29 average rating, · 12.1k ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
4.14 average rating, · 10.8k ratings
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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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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
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The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell
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The Lord Of The Rings: A Reader's Companion
Wayne G. Hammond
4.39 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 6k ratings
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The Weird and the Eerie
Mark Fisher
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The Stephen King Companion
George Beahm
4.05 average rating, · 5.2k 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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Image - Music - Text
Roland Barthes
4.09 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.17 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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An Experiment in Criticism
C.S. Lewis
4.20 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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S/Z: An Essay
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 3.9k 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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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
4.42 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Umberto Eco
4.16 average rating, · 3.4k ratings
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