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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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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
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The Weird and the Eerie
Mark Fisher
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach
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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
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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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Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
Michael Ward
4.32 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera
4.05 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Seven Nights
Jorge Luis Borges
4.30 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Selected Non-Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
4.44 average rating, · 2.4k 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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Herman Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund: A Phenomenological View
Kathleen E. Digan
4.35 average rating, · 2.1k 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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A Preface to Paradise Lost
C.S. Lewis
4.25 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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