Subject: Literature, Modern History and criticism

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How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom (2,795 copies)
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily… by Camille Paglia (1,992 copies)
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag (1,804 copies)
The Common Reader: First Series by Virginia Woolf (1,044 copies)
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby (830 copies)
The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha (782 copies)
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of… by Edmund Wilson (641 copies)
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf (584 copies)
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille (496 copies)
At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag (407 copies)
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike (350 copies)
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930… by Malcolm Bradbury (331 copies)
The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz (330 copies)
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis (319 copies)
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism by Trinh T. Minh-Ha (319 copies)
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward W. Said (318 copies)
Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran (286 copies)
The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass (255 copies)
Literature and Western Man by J. B. Priestley (242 copies)
Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein (232 copies)
Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s &… by Edmund Wilson (225 copies)
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and… by Hannah Arendt (214 copies)
Nation and narration by Homi K. Bhabha (214 copies)
Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s &… by Edmund Wilson (210 copies)
A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us… by Arnold Weinstein (176 copies)
Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R.… by Rolland Hein (173 copies)
The Semiotic Challenge by Roland Barthes (172 copies)
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties… by Edmund Wilson (162 copies)
In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad (137 copies)
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by Cathy Caruth (136 copies)
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers by Malcolm Bradbury (131 copies)
The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and… by Ruth R. Wisse (122 copies)
Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the… by Edmund Wilson (115 copies)
The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick (112 copies)
Readings by Sven Birkerts (109 copies)
The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry Castle (109 copies)
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science… by N. Katherine Hayles (105 copies)
Soul and Form by Georg Lukacs (105 copies)
Postcolonial Theory by Leela Gandhi (103 copies)
Time and Western Man by Wyndham Lewis (103 copies)
Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language… by George Steiner (97 copies)
The Enchafed Flood or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea by W. H. Auden (94 copies)
The Common Reader, First and Second Series by Virginia Woolf (89 copies)
The Triple Thinkers by Edmund Wilson (87 copies)
Crack Wars: LITERATURE ADDICTION MANIA (Texts and Contexts) by Avital Ronell (86 copies)
On Poets and Others by Octavio Paz (85 copies)
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary… by Will Durant (80 copies)
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by N. Katherine Hayles (79 copies)
The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism by Lionel Trilling (79 copies)
Ourselves Among Others: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers by Carol J. Verburg (77 copies)
The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays… by John Bayley (77 copies)
The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton (New Directions… by Thomas Merton (76 copies)
Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Sven Birkerts (75 copies)
Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature… by N. Katherine Hayles (73 copies)
Reading Is Believing: The Christian Faith through… by David S. Cunningham (73 copies)
Something Said by Gilbert Sorrentino (61 copies)
The Myth Makers by V. S. Pritchett (61 copies)
Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of… by Arnold Hauser (60 copies)
El tamaño de mi esperanza by Jorge Luis Borges (60 copies)
Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives by Joseph Epstein (59 copies)
The Pen and the Sword by Edward W. Said (59 copies)
Opium and the Romantic Imagination by Alethea Hayter (59 copies)
Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of… by Stanley Eugene Fish (58 copies)
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews by J. M. Coetzee (58 copies)
Contemporaries by Alfred Kazin (55 copies)
Literary Essays by Lytton Strachey (51 copies)
The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profiles by Louis Auchincloss (50 copies)
Reflections on Literature and Culture by Hannah Arendt (49 copies)
Preempting the Holocaust by Lawrence L. Langer (48 copies)
Reality and the Vision: Eighteen Christian Authors Reveal… by Philip Yancey (47 copies)
A Literary Chronicle: 1920-1950 by Edmund Wilson (44 copies)
The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing by John Sturrock (44 copies)
Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels by Brian Vickers (43 copies)
Resisting Representation by Elaine Scarry (43 copies)
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism by Pericles Lewis (43 copies)
The Third Book of Criticism by Randall Jarrell (42 copies)
Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen by Charles Rosen (41 copies)
The Later Eighteenth Century by René Wellek (40 copies)
Listening to the Page by Alan Cheuse (38 copies)
The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent… by Rebecca West (38 copies)
Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement by Caren Kaplan (38 copies)
The Modern Movement: A TLS Companion (The TLS Companions… by John Gross (37 copies)
The Poethical Wager by Joan Retallack (37 copies)
Men Without Art by Wyndham Lewis (36 copies)
By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi (36 copies)
After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy by T. S. Eliot (35 copies)
Characters and Their Landscapes by Ronald Blythe (35 copies)
Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century by Mark Lilly (34 copies)
Linguistics and Literary History: Essays in Stylistics by Leo Spitzer (34 copies)
The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern… by Ihab Habib Hassan (33 copies)
The Crisis of Criticism by Maurice Berger (32 copies)
Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader by Padmini Mongia (32 copies)
The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature by Joyce Carol Oates (31 copies)
On Contemporary Literature by Richard Kostelanetz (30 copies)
Trousered apes by Duncan Williams (30 copies)
Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization by Haun Saussy (30 copies)
Introduction to the literature of Europe, in the fifteenth,… by Henry Hallam (29 copies)
A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World by Morris Dickstein (29 copies)
Reading After Theory (Blackwell Manifestos) by Valentine Cunningham (28 copies)
Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System by Bernhard Siegert (28 copies)
Breaking the Fall: Religious Readings of Contemporary… by Robert Detweiler (28 copies)
Le Vol du vampire. Notes littéraires by Michel Tournier (27 copies)
Allegorical Imagery : Some Medieval Books and Their… by Rosemond Tuve (27 copies)
Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution against… by Jay Fliegelman (27 copies)
Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-70 by Geoffrey H. Hartman (26 copies)
The Metamorphosis of the Circle by Georges Poulet (26 copies)
Leon Trotsky on Literature and Art by Leon Trotsky (25 copies)
Books Are Not Life but Then What Is? by Marvin Mudrick (25 copies)
The Inmost Leaf: Essays on American and European Writers by Alfred Kazin (25 copies)
The Paris Review Anthology by George Plimpton (24 copies)
Handful of Authors by G. K. Chesterton (23 copies)
The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity by Mary Russo (23 copies)
Unmediated Vision by Geoffrey H. Hartman (23 copies)
Guide to Modern World Literature {1st edition} by Martin Seymour-Smith (22 copies)
Essays on literature and politics, 1932-1972 by Philip Rahv (21 copies)
Highlights of Modern Literature, a Permanent Collection of… by Francis Brown (21 copies)
Written on a Body by Severo Sarduy (20 copies)
The New Spirit by Havelock Ellis (20 copies)
Minor Monuments: Selected Essays by Howard Moss (19 copies)
A future for Astyanax: character and desire in literature by Leo Bersani (19 copies)
A Reviewer's abc: Collected Criticism of Conrad Aiken from… by Conrad Aiken (18 copies)
Homosexuality and Literature 1890-1930 by Jeffrey Meyers (18 copies)
A history of modern criticism: 1750-1950 by René Wellek (18 copies)
A poet's alphabet;: Reflections on the literary art and… by Louise Bogan (17 copies)
Contemporary Christian writers by Joseph R. Foster (17 copies)
Wait without idols by Gabriel Vahanian (17 copies)
World Authors 1975-1980 by Vineta Colby (17 copies)
Literary Modernism by Irving Howe (17 copies)
The mark of Cain; studies in literature and theology by Stuart Barton Babbage (16 copies)
Sleuthing in the Stacks by Rudolph Altrocchi (16 copies)
The widening gyre; crisis and mastery in modern literature by Joseph Frank (16 copies)
Ishmael by James Baird (16 copies)
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett (16 copies)
Obra Critica 3 (Spanish Edition) by Julio Cortázar (16 copies)
Poets, Prophets, and Revolutionaries: The Literary… by Charles Russell (15 copies)
Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders,… by Susan Rubin Suleiman (15 copies)
Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader by Susan Manning (15 copies)
Literature and the sixth sense by Philip Rahv (14 copies)
1913: The Cradle of Modernism by Jean-Michael Rabaté (14 copies)
Critical Observations by Julian Symons (13 copies)
Crítica literaria by Paul Groussac (13 copies)
Avowals by George Moore (13 copies)
Raritan Reading by Richard Poirier (12 copies)
Masocriticism by Paul Mann (12 copies)
Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic by Steven Bruhm (12 copies)
A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory by Peter Brooker (12 copies)
The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World by Emily Griesinger (11 copies)
La errancia sin fin: Musil, Borges, Klossowski (Coleccion… by Juan Garcia Ponce (11 copies)
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the… by Jayana Clerk (11 copies)
Existentially Speaking: Essays on Philosophy of Literature… by Colin Wilson (11 copies)
On the Limits of Poetry: Selected Essays 1928-1948 by Allen Tate (10 copies)
Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin De… by Chris Bongie (10 copies)
Decadentie en literatuur by Jaap Goedegebuure (10 copies)
The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science by Max Eastman (10 copies)
Literature, politics and theory : Annual Essex conference… by Francis Barker (9 copies)
La Aliteratura contemporánea (Kafka. Artaud, Beckett,… by Claude Mauriac (9 copies)
Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk by Kevin Kopelson (9 copies)
Books in general by V. S. Pritchett (9 copies)
Weapons of criticism: Marxism in America and the literary… by Norman Rudich, Ed (9 copies)
Pleasure in the eighteenth century by Roy Porter (8 copies)
Eutanasia della critica by Mario Lavagetto (8 copies)
Essays in Modern Literary Criticism by Ray Benedict West (8 copies)
Who says this? : the authority of the author, the… by Welch D. Everman (7 copies)
Varieties of parable by Louis MacNeice (7 copies)
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature:… by Jonathan Arac (7 copies)
Modern writers and other essays by Stuart Hampshire (7 copies)
The Robinson Crusoe Story by Martin Burgess Green (7 copies)
Essentials of European literature : a guide to great books by Vincent Foster Hopper (7 copies)
Studies in literature, 1789-1877 by Edward Dowden (6 copies)
Whatever is moving by Howard Moss (6 copies)
Narrating the Holocaust (Continuum Collection) by Andrea Reiter (6 copies)
De ringen van de kinkhoorn by Willy Roggeman (6 copies)
PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction (PEN America: A Journal… (6 copies)
Literature and dialectical materialism by John Strachey (6 copies)
The Erotic Bird by Maurice Alexander Natanson (6 copies)
Miroirs d'encre by Michel Beaujour (6 copies)
La vocación condenada by Ignacio Trejo (5 copies)
Hoeren en heren in de 19de-eeuwse literatuur by Jaap Harskamp (5 copies)
Reperusals and re-collections by Logan Pearsall Smith (5 copies)
Women in Eighteenth-century America: A Study of Opinion and… by Mary Sumner Benson (5 copies)
Bøker og mennesker: Artikler by Jens Bjørneboe (4 copies)
From these roots by Mary M. Colum (4 copies)
W. D. Howells as critic by William Dean Howells (4 copies)
Cyphers (journal) (4 copies)
Word of Mouth: Food and Fiction After Freud (Literary… by Susanne Skubal (3 copies)
A Reopening of Closure by Murray Krieger (3 copies)
Original subjects : the child, the novel, and the nation by Ala A. Alryyes (3 copies)
Dall'esilio : la creazione artistica come testimonianza by Franco Rella (3 copies)
Blogoslawienstwo Becketta I Inne Wyznania Literackie by Antoni Libera (3 copies)
Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern… by Leslie Heywood (3 copies)
Forty immortals by Benjamin De Casseres (2 copies)
Picta poesis : literary and humanistic theory in… by Robert J. Clements (2 copies)
As They Appear by John Mason Brown (2 copies)
Sketches and reviews by Walter Pater (2 copies)
The grammar of the real: Selected prose, 1959-1974 by James Phillip McAuley (1 copies)
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800 (1 copies)
Poėtika i deĭstvitelʹnostʹ : iz nabli︠u︡denniĭ nad… by V. G. Admoni (1 copies)
A autocomplacência da mimese : uma defesa da poesia,… by João R. Figueiredo (1 copies)
Aventura hacia el país perdido : ensayos en la revista… by Roberto Armijo (1 copies)
Mündlichkeit, Schriftlichkeit, Weltbildwandel :… by Ursula Schaefer (1 copies)
Androïden : zur Poetologie der Automaten (1 copies)
Tradition and jazz by Fred Lewis Pattee (1 copies)
Revista Martín Fierro 1924-1927 : edición… by Horacio Salas (1 copies)
Salduv zápisník by Frantisek Xaver Salda (1 copies)
Cartas literárias by Adolfo Caminha (1 copies)