Works of Literary Theory And Criticism

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Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms
Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms 4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature (New Directions Books)
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature (New Directions Books) 4.41 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism
Poetry and Designs: Authoritative Texts, Illuminations in Color and Monochrome, Related Prose, Criticism 4.28 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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Anatomy of Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism 4.09 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
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The Pound Era
The Pound Era 4.39 avg rating — 693 ratings
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On Literature
On Literature 3.95 avg rating — 2,292 ratings
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 4.29 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
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How to Read Literature
How to Read Literature 3.69 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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The Uses of Literature
The Uses of Literature 4.07 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas 3.86 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Literary Theory For Beginners
Literary Theory For Beginners 3.50 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien 3.77 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating — 7,357 ratings
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Culture and Society (1780-1950)
Culture and Society (1780-1950) 4.04 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick 3.63 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium
Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium
by: Jeet Heer
3.59 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Illuminations
Illuminations 4.29 avg rating — 12,266 ratings
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Who's who in science fiction
Who's who in science fiction
by: Brian Ash
3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide
Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide 3.32 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Weird and the Eerie
The Weird and the Eerie 4.03 avg rating — 4,931 ratings
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James Joyce
James Joyce 4.34 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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Humanism in the English novel
Humanism in the English novel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Men I Have Chosen for Fathers: Literary and Philosophical Passages
Men I Have Chosen for Fathers: Literary and Philosophical Passages it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Literary Theory: An Introduction
Literary Theory: An Introduction 3.94 avg rating — 5,590 ratings
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The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction
The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction 3.90 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays 3.76 avg rating — 211 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,488 ratings
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The Book of Forgotten Authors
The Book of Forgotten Authors 3.92 avg rating — 754 ratings
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Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance
Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's dreamchild as seen through the critics' looking-glasses
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's dreamchild as seen through the critics' looking-glasses 3.59 avg rating — 32 ratings
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy
What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy
by: Jo Walton
3.89 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes 4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels : An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984 3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Vampire: A Casebook
The Vampire: A Casebook 3.77 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde 4.01 avg rating — 5,107 ratings
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Writing in America
Writing in America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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On War and Writing
On War and Writing 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Sir Philip Sydney's Defense of Poetry: And Observations on Poetry and ...
Sir Philip Sydney's Defense of Poetry: And Observations on Poetry and ... 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / From the Briarpatch File / Other Writings
Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / From the Briarpatch File / Other Writings 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977
A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English
The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005 4.07 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Lawrence
Lawrence 3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 3.99 avg rating — 89 ratings
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H.G.: The History of Mr Wells
H.G.: The History of Mr Wells 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings 4.10 avg rating — 14,443 ratings
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 4.14 avg rating — 1,348 ratings
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Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga 3.91 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction 3.66 avg rating — 324 ratings
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A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series)
A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series) 3.94 avg rating — 821 ratings
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 3.81 avg rating — 2,826 ratings
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William Blake: Essays For S. Foster Damon
William Blake: Essays For S. Foster Damon liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Poetics
Poetics
by: Aristotle
3.83 avg rating — 28,473 ratings
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William Blake: The Politics of Vision
William Blake: The Politics of Vision 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Ion
Ion
by: Plato
3.58 avg rating — 3,370 ratings
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William Blake's Great Task: The Purpose of Jerusalem
William Blake's Great Task: The Purpose of Jerusalem really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Magic
The Magic 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Collected Works of Northrop Frye) 4.34 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Educated Imagination (Midland Book)
The Educated Imagination (Midland Book) 4.11 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare 4.19 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature 4.07 avg rating — 636 ratings
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Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism
Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism 4.01 avg rating — 131 ratings
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On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000
On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others
With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Why Flannery O'Connor Stayed Home
Why Flannery O'Connor Stayed Home 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner
On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art, A Biography
Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art, A Biography 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays
Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Historical Fictions
Historical Fictions really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere 4.02 avg rating — 329 ratings
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The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life (Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series)
The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life (Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series) 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Comics & Media: A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry" (A Critical Inquiry Book)
Comics & Media: A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry" (A Critical Inquiry Book) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels
History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place
American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Essays on World Literature: Aeschylus • Dante • Shakespeare
Essays on World Literature: Aeschylus • Dante • Shakespeare 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature 3.96 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies) 4.47 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Antaeus #59: Literature as Pleasure
Antaeus #59: Literature as Pleasure 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 4.09 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian Literature (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature)
Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian Literature (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature) 3.64 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood 4.15 avg rating — 407 ratings
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art 4.04 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Religion and the Ku Klux Klan: Biblical Appropriation in Their Literature and Songs
Religion and the Ku Klux Klan: Biblical Appropriation in Their Literature and Songs 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature 3.85 avg rating — 928 ratings
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult 3.75 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books
Natural Selection: Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor
The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas 3.83 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books 4.52 avg rating — 40 ratings