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Literary Criticism26
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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
4.00 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 6k 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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Shelley's Poetry and Prose
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.10 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.17 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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S/Z: An Essay
Roland Barthes
4.00 average rating, · 3.9k 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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Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.26 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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Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin
4.26 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Less Than One: Selected Essays
Joseph Brodsky
4.34 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Nikolai Gogol
Vladimir Nabokov
4.15 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated
Eliot Weinberger
4.26 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Margins of Philosophy
Jacques Derrida
4.09 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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Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader's Guide
Matthew Carl Strecher
4.31 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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The Space of Literature
Maurice Blanchot
4.30 average rating, · 945 ratings
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The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Mario Vargas Llosa
4.11 average rating, · 899 ratings
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Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
Gilles Deleuze
4.21 average rating, · 867 ratings
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Essays One
Lydia Davis
4.28 average rating, · 818 ratings
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The Writing of the Disaster
Maurice Blanchot
4.18 average rating, · 833 ratings
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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
Robert Zaretsky
4.00 average rating, · 660 ratings
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Leo Marx
4.06 average rating, · 640 ratings
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