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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
4.29 average rating, · 12.7k ratings
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Sara Lodge
4.45 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Susan Sontag
4.14 average rating, · 10.8k ratings
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Lester Bangs
4.01 average rating, · 10k ratings
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Scholastic Inc.
4.20 average rating, · 7.9k 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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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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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom
4.03 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
- Criticism
- History
- Literary Criticism
- Literature
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
Greil Marcus
4.04 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Devil Finds Work: Essays
James Baldwin
4.25 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.32 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera
4.05 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
Don Gifford
4.21 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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Representations of the Intellectual
Edward W. Said
4.00 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Stephen Greenblatt
4.11 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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The Great Movies
Roger Ebert
4.27 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
- Books About Books
- Criticism
- Essays
- Literary Criticism
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Jeanette Winterson
4.09 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
Stuart Gilbert
4.17 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
Dave Hickey
4.08 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
4.15 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
Jessica Hopper
4.05 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Lectures on Russian Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
4.26 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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