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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry

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Favorite authorsTheodor W. Adorno, Dante Alighieri, Erich Auerbach, Augustine, Ernest Becker, Albert Camus, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Jacques Derrida, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Meister Eckhart, George Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Epictetus, William Faulkner, Michel Foucault, José Ortega y Gasset, John Gower, René Guénon, Dashiell Hammett, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Thomas Hoccleve, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Russell Jacoby, Henry James, Fredric Jameson, Leszek Kolakowski, William Langland, Emmanuel Levinas, H. P. Lovecraft, Henri de Lubac, Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Jill Mann, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julian of Norwich, Plato, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Ricœur, Frithjof Schuon, William Shakespeare, Paul Strohm, Charles Taylor, Rowan Williams (Shared favorites)

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Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities by Stanley Fish

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Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers Tradition (Chaucer Studies) by J. A. Burnley

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Grammatical Theory in Western Europe 1500-1700: The Latin Tradition by G. A. Padley

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VIRTUE OF NECESSITY. English Women's Writing 1646-1688. by Elaine Hobby

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Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

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Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study (Masterworks of Discovery) by Joe Sachs

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