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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1600 ★ 4.0

Images of American radicalism

Edmund B. Sullivan, Paul Buhle

1998

Postmodernity, ethics, and the novel

Andrew Gibson

1999

Palestinian parties and politics that shaped the Old Testament

Morton Smith

1971

Literary theory

Terry Eagleton

2008

Critical reading and writing

Andrew Goatly

2000

Feminist Milton

Joseph Anthony Wittreich

1987

Artefactos

Liliana Villegas, Benjamin Villegas, Lilina Villegas

1992

Meditations on a hobby horse, and other essays on the theory of art

E. H. Gombrich

1971

Modern Literary Criticism and Theory

M. A. R. Habib

2007

Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight

Shoshana Felman

1987

The Passion According to Luke

Jerome H. Neyrey

1985

Structuralist poetics

Jonathan D. Culler

1975

The Jane Austen book club

Karen Joy Fowler

2004

The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory

J.A. Cuddon

1999

Coleridge

Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī

1973

Poetics

Aristotle

1705 ★ 3.9

A textual commentary on the Greek New Testament

Bruce Manning Metzger

1971

Julia Kristeva

John Lechte, Maria Margaroni

1990

The armed vision

Stanley Edgar Hyman

1948

Roland Barthes

Philip Malcolm Waller Thody

1983

Dictionary of world literary terms, forms, technique, criticism

Joseph Twadell Shipley

1970

The Shakespeare symphony

Harold Bayley

1906

Canons by consensus

Joseph Csicsila

2004

The Bible and Homosexual Practice

Robert A. J. Gagnon

2001

Samuel Beckett; poet & critic

Lawrence E. Harvey

1970

Future/present

Daniela Alvarez, Elizabeth M. Webb, Roberta Uno

2024

When Words Lose Their Meaning

James Boyd White

1984

Word without end

Christopher R. Seitz

1998

Young artists in Italy at the turn of the millennium

Giulio di Gropello, Roberto Daolio, Alessandra Galasso et al.

2005

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