Subject: Literature › History and criticism

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• Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological… by Jean-Paul Sartre (3,951 copies)
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and… by Thomas C. Foster (3,275 copies)
• Illuminations by Walter Benjamin (2,626 copies)
• The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom (2,416 copies)
• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom (2,371 copies)
• Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton (1,975 copies)
• Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western… by Erich Auerbach (1,855 copies)
• The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education… by Susan Wise Bauer (1,685 copies)
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino (1,633 copies)
• Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said (1,592 copies)
• Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler (1,449 copies)
• On Literature by Umberto Eco (1,236 copies)
• Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino (1,173 copies)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary… by J. A. Cuddon (1,056 copies)
• Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch (1,015 copies)
• ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound (871 copies)
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby (792 copies)
• The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis (743 copies)
• Invitation to the Classics by Louise Cowan (739 copies)
• Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson (709 copies)
• Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda (567 copies)
• Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952 by Jorge Luis Borges (566 copies)
• Literary Theory: An Anthology by Julie Rivkin (524 copies)
• The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the… by Robertson Davies (446 copies)
• The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling (409 copies)
• The Books in My Life by Henry Miller (393 copies)
• Stranger Shores: Literary Essays by J. M. Coetzee (391 copies)
• The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner (386 copies)
• Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in… by Janet H. Murray (380 copies)
• The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary… by David H. Richter (367 copies)
• Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi (364 copies)
• Books that Changed the World by Robert B. Downs (352 copies)
• Critical Theory Since Plato by Hazard Adams (341 copies)
• Literary Essays of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound (327 copies)
• Edgar Allan Poe : Essays and Reviews : Theory of Poetry /… by Edgar Allan Poe (310 copies)
• The Reader's Companion to World Literature by Lillian Herlands Hornstein (306 copies)
• Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot (303 copies)
• A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory by Raman Selden (299 copies)
• Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice by Charles E. Bressler (296 copies)
• A short guide to writing about literature by Sylvan Barnet (295 copies)
• Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by David Lodge (288 copies)
• Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and… by George Steiner (287 copies)
• Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee (285 copies)
• Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso (276 copies)
• The Social History of Art [complete] by Arnold Hauser (274 copies)
• Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked,… by Michael Ondaatje (273 copies)
• The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Readers Companion… by Claude J. Summers (270 copies)
• Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism… by Trinh T. Minh-Ha (263 copies)
• The Burning Library by Edmund White (261 copies)
• 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That… by Benjamin Wiker (255 copies)

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