Subject: Literature › History and criticism

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• Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre (2,018 copies)
• Illuminations by Walter Benjamin (1,302 copies)
• The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom (1,244 copies)
• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom (1,201 copies)
• Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton (1,167 copies)
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and… by Thomas C. Foster (961 copies)
• The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education… by Susan Wise Bauer (876 copies)
• Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western… by Erich Auerbach (849 copies)
• Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said (798 copies)
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino (685 copies)
• Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler (625 copies)
• On Literature by Umberto Eco (588 copies)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary… by J. A. Cuddon (555 copies)
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby (488 copies)
• Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch (474 copies)
• ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound (446 copies)
• Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson (425 copies)
• The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis (422 copies)
• Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino (412 copies)
• The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the… by Stuart Kelly (331 copies)
• Invitation to the Classics (Masterworks) by Louise Cowan (287 copies)
• Literary Theory: An Anthology by Julie Rivkin (272 copies)
• Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952 by Jorge Luis Borges (264 copies)
• Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in… by Janet H. Murray (243 copies)
• The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the… by Robertson Davies (239 copies)
• Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi (209 copies)
• The Books in My Life by Henry Miller (209 copies)
• Stranger Shores: Literary Essays by J. M. Coetzee (207 copies)
• Critical Theory Since Plato by Hazard Adams (202 copies)
• Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda (201 copies)
• The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary… by David H. Richter (196 copies)
• The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner (194 copies)
• Literary Essays of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound (184 copies)
• Books that Changed the World by Robert B. Downs (172 copies)
• The Reader's Companion to World Literature by Lillian Herlands Hornstein (164 copies)
• A Short Guide to Writing About Literature by Sylvan Barnet (163 copies)
• A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory by Raman Selden (156 copies)
• Masterpieces of World Literature by Frank N. Magill (156 copies)
• Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by David Lodge (153 copies)
• Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature by David P. Barash (144 copies)
• The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics) by Lionel Trilling (143 copies)
• Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal… by Margaret Atwood (142 copies)
• The Burning Library by Edmund White (135 copies)
• Literature and the Gods by Roberto Calasso (134 copies)
• Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked,… by Michael Ondaatje (134 copies)
• Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot (129 copies)
• Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and… by George Steiner (125 copies)
• Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism… by T. Minh-Ha Trinh (124 copies)
• The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Readers Companion… by Claude J. Summers (122 copies)
• Edgar Allan Poe : Essays and Reviews : Theory of Poetry /… by Edgar Allan Poe (121 copies)

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