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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
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison
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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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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
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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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S/Z: An Essay
Roland Barthes
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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
4.15 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye
4.09 average rating, · 2k ratings
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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
4.07 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
Lois Tyson
4.03 average rating, · 1.5k 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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The Political Unconscious
Fredric Jameson
4.05 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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Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
Gilles Deleuze
4.21 average rating, · 867 ratings
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