Subject: Literature, Modern › History and criticism

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• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom (1,201 copies)
• Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily… by Camille Paglia (1,010 copies)
• Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag (597 copies)
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby (488 copies)
• The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition by Virginia Woolf (395 copies)
• The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha (288 copies)
• Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of… by Edmund Wilson (271 copies)
• The Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition by Virginia Woolf (240 copies)
• Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille (167 copies)
• Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike (162 copies)
• Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930… by Malcolm Bradbury (155 copies)
• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag (143 copies)
• Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward W. Said (129 copies)
• Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein (128 copies)
• Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism… by T. Minh-Ha Trinh (124 copies)
• The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz (120 copies)
• The Semiotic Challenge by Roland Barthes (118 copies)
• Literature and Western man by J. B. Priestley (110 copies)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis (110 copies)
• Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran (96 copies)
• Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha (96 copies)
• The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass (87 copies)
• A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us… by Arnold Weinstein (83 copies)
• Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s &… by Edmund Wilson (83 copies)
• Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and… by Hannah Arendt (79 copies)
• Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R.… by Rolland Hein (79 copies)
• The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties… by Edmund Wilson (76 copies)
• The Literature Machine: Essays (Picador Books) by Italo Calvino (76 copies)
• Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s &… by Edmund Wilson (70 copies)
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers by Malcolm Bradbury (63 copies)
• Readings by Sven Birkerts (60 copies)
• Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science by N. Katherine Hayles (52 copies)
• Time and Western Man by Wyndham Lewis (48 copies)
• The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick (48 copies)
• Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the… by Edmund Wilson (46 copies)
• Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by Cathy Caruth (41 copies)
• The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and… by Ruth Wisse (40 copies)
• The Enchafed Flood by W. H. Auden (40 copies)
• The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects by Edmund Wilson (38 copies)
• Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary… by Will Durant (37 copies)
• Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (Texts and… by Avital Ronell (37 copies)
• The Apparitional Lesbian by Terry Castle (37 copies)
• The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays… by John Bayley (35 copies)
• Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives by Joseph Epstein (34 copies)
• Reading Life: Books for the Ages by Sven Birkerts (34 copies)
• In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (Cultural Studies) by Aijaz Ahmad (33 copies)
• Reading Is Believing: The Christian Faith through… by David S. Cunningham (32 copies)
• Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature… by N. Katherine Hayles (31 copies)
• The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton (New Directions… by Thomas Merton (31 copies)
• The Pen and the Sword by Edward W. Said (31 copies)

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