Anatomy of Criticism
By: Northrop Frye
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northr…
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1. Blow-Up and Other Stories
By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn
4.21
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading … read more
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"She smells fresh, like the shadow under trees."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...no sé si has visto cómo el paisaje se va rompiendo cuando lo miras alejarse..."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
2. Perspective as Symbolic Form
By: Erwin Panofsky , None
4.10
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual hist… read more
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"Reform or no reform, he never ceased to promote the interests of St. Denis and the Royal House of France with the same naive, and in his case not entirely unjustified, conviction of their identity wi…"-Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form
"... not only did perspective elevate art to a "science"... the subjective visual impression was indeed so far rationalized that this very impression could itself become the foundation for a solidly g…"-Erwin Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. The Ego and Its Own
By: Max Stirner , David Leopold
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Stirner's The Ego and its Own (1845) is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Mo… read more
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"Political liberty,"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"A minha causa é a causa de nada."-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"No dia em que devorares o sagrado, ele torna-se tua propriedade!"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
"Proudhon, e.g., thinks that with the sentence “Property is theft"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
5. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
6. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
By: Adam Phillips , Edmund Burke
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece… read more
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7. Anatomy of Criticism
By: Northrop Frye
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northr… read more
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- literature
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- criticism
- essays
- literary criticism
8. The Common Reader
By: Virginia Woolf
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selectio… read more
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- nonfiction
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9. Culture
By: Chris Jenks
3.68
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. read more
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10. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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- literature
11. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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12. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
13. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
By: Joseph Campbell
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more
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14. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
By: John Ashbery
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more
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15. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
By: Richard Howard , Tzvetan Todorov , Robert Scholes
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, movi… read more
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16. Narrative Discourse
By: Jonathan D. Culler , Gérard Genette , Jane E. Lewin
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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17. The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
By: Henry Beston , Robert Finch
4.00
Format: 176 pages,
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity,… read more
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18. The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages,
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the Nor… read more
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19. The Savage Mind
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
An examination of the structure of the thought of primitive' peoples, and has contributed significa… read more
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20. Morphology of the Folktale
By: Alan Dundes , Vladimir Propp , Laurence Scott , None , None , None
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretica… read more
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21. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
By: Mikhail Bakhtin , Michael Holquist , None
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of R… read more
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22. Shame and Necessity
By: Bernard Williams
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, free… read more
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23. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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24. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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25. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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26. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
By: None , Willard R. Trask , Erich Auerbach
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a mon… read more
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27. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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28. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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29. Ion
By: Plato
2.00
Format: 28 pages,
In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with Ion, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the… read more
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30. Literary Theory: An Introduction
By: Terry Eagleton
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Written in 1982, this work appeared, as Professor Eagleton explains, at the watershed of two very d… read more
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31. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
By: Albert Camus
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more
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