Subject: Literature, Modern › History and criticism

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• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom (2,245 copies)
• Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily… by Camille Paglia (1,644 copies)
• Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag (1,282 copies)
• The Common Reader: First Series by Virginia Woolf (809 copies)
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby (764 copies)
• The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha (621 copies)
• Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of… by Edmund Wilson (530 copies)
• The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf (478 copies)
• Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille (350 copies)
• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag (319 copies)
• Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike (301 copies)
• Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930… by Malcolm Bradbury (275 copies)
• The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz (275 copies)
• Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward W. Said (265 copies)
• Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism… by Trinh T. Minh-Ha (247 copies)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis (237 copies)
• The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass (210 copies)
• Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran (205 copies)
• Literature and Western man by J. B. Priestley (200 copies)
• Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein (199 copies)
• Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s &… by Edmund Wilson (177 copies)
• Nation and narration by Homi K. Bhabha (173 copies)
• Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and… by Hannah Arendt (168 copies)
• Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s &… by Edmund Wilson (154 copies)
• A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us… by Arnold Weinstein (153 copies)
• Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R.… by Rolland Hein (137 copies)
• The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties… by Edmund Wilson (132 copies)
• The Semiotic Challenge by Roland Barthes (128 copies)
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers by Malcolm Bradbury (108 copies)
• In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad (104 copies)
• Readings by Sven Birkerts (100 copies)
• Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by Cathy Caruth (97 copies)
• The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Language and… by Ruth R. Wisse (97 copies)
• The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick (95 copies)
• Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the… by Edmund Wilson (92 copies)
• The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry Castle (89 copies)
• Time and Western Man by Wyndham Lewis (89 copies)
• Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science… by N. Katherine Hayles (89 copies)
• The Enchafed Flood or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea by W. H. Auden (77 copies)
• The Triple Thinkers by Edmund Wilson (77 copies)
• Crack Wars: LITERATURE ADDICTION MANIA (Texts and Contexts) by Avital Ronell (75 copies)
• Soul and Form by Georg Lukacs (75 copies)
• The Common Reader, first and second series by Virginia Woolf (75 copies)
• Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Sven Birkerts (71 copies)
• Postcolonial Theory by Leela Gandhi (70 copies)
• Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language… by George Steiner (69 copies)
• On Poets and Others by Octavio Paz (69 copies)
• Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary… by Will Durant (67 copies)
• Ourselves Among Others: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers by Carol J. Verburg (65 copies)
• Reading Is Believing: The Christian Faith through… by David S. Cunningham (64 copies)

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