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Criticism Books
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,256 ratings — published 1964
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,448 ratings — published 1983
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,418 ratings — published 1994
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,417 ratings — published 1978
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 389,425 ratings — published 1972
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,893 ratings — published 1957
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,909 ratings — published 1955
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,646 ratings — published 2008
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,167 ratings — published 1957
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,582 ratings — published 1942
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 220,234 ratings — published 1929
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 26,639 ratings — published -335
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,673 ratings — published 1927
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,594 ratings — published 1998
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,034 ratings — published 1992
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,194 ratings — published 1973
How to Read and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,631 ratings — published 2000
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,983 ratings — published 1979
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,327 ratings — published 1997
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,828 ratings — published 1934
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,353 ratings — published 2023
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,769 ratings — published 2005
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,646 ratings — published 1973
Lectures on Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,506 ratings — published 1980
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 576 ratings — published 1930
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,790 ratings — published 2003
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,297 ratings — published 2019
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.59 — 31,705 ratings — published 2003
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,308 ratings — published 1985
How to Read Literature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,397 ratings — published 2013
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,064 ratings — published 1991
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,771 ratings — published 1988
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,470 ratings — published 2011
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 450 ratings — published 1931
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 34 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,365 ratings — published 1990
Lectures on Russian Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,971 ratings — published 1981
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,688 ratings — published 2010
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,473 ratings — published 1993
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,097 ratings — published 2001
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,536 ratings — published 1973
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,037,522 ratings — published 1945
On Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,255 ratings — published 2002
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,241 ratings — published 1961
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 42,405 ratings — published 1949
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.54 — 20,307 ratings — published 2021
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,345 ratings — published 1989
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 855 ratings — published 1954
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,212 ratings — published 1980
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,459 ratings — published 1987
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,482 ratings — published 1965
“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
― Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
― Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
