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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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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson
4.21 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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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera
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Representations of the Intellectual
Edward W. Said
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Jeanette Winterson
4.09 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
Dave Hickey
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
4.15 average rating, · 2.3k 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
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Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye
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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
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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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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.35 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Paul Schrader
4.08 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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The Political Unconscious
Fredric Jameson
4.05 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Proust
Samuel Beckett
4.06 average rating, · 996 ratings
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The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
Simone Weil
4.24 average rating, · 908 ratings
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Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
Gilles Deleuze
4.21 average rating, · 867 ratings
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Why People Photograph
Robert Adams
4.02 average rating, · 915 ratings
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