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Literary Criticism Books
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,600 ratings — published 1942
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,444 ratings — published 1994
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 26,961 ratings — published -335
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,469 ratings — published 1983
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.59 — 31,951 ratings — published 2003
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,900 ratings — published 1957
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,704 ratings — published 2008
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,995 ratings — published 1979
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,702 ratings — published 1927
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,609 ratings — published 1998
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,658 ratings — published 2000
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,708 ratings — published 1978
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,525 ratings — published 1980
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,114 ratings — published 1992
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 223,751 ratings — published 1929
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,966 ratings — published 1955
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,358 ratings — published 1997
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,356 ratings — published 1964
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,576 ratings — published 1973
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,091 ratings — published 1991
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,267 ratings — published 1957
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (ebook)
by (shelved 76 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.54 — 20,623 ratings — published 2021
The Art of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,737 ratings — published 1986
The Art of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,901 ratings — published 1992
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,571 ratings — published 1975
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,984 ratings — published 1981
An Experiment in Criticism (ebook)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,990 ratings — published 1961
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,455 ratings — published 2006
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,263 ratings — published 2002
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,101 ratings — published 2001
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,651 ratings — published 1973
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,419 ratings — published 2013
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,074 ratings — published 2004
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,838 ratings — published 1995
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,934 ratings — published 1964
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 857 ratings — published 1954
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,976 ratings — published 1975
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,241 ratings — published 1961
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 56 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,395 ratings — published 1990
A Preface to Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,465 ratings — published 1942
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,854 ratings — published 2000
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 51 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 450 ratings — published 1931
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.65 — 136,110 ratings — published 2003
The Common Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,844 ratings — published 1925
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 578 ratings — published 1930
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,951 ratings — published 1983
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,501 ratings — published 2008
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 459 ratings — published 1950
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,504 ratings — published 2004
Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as literary-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 802 ratings — published 1904
“How can the Book Award Judges’ decision be right when we know that submitting the same books to different panels will result in different winners!”
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“What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.
American novels, answered Lord Henry.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
American novels, answered Lord Henry.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
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