Critique
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Deleuze and Guattari
The meaning of meaning
The Myth of the Modern
Structuralism or criticism?
The critical path
Van Wyck Brooks, the critic and his critics
How to do theory
A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory
Kiss kiss bang bang
The stubborn structure
Cultural criticism, literary theory, poststructuralism
Principles of literary criticism
The Columbia dictionary of modern literary and cultural criticism
"Steel for the mind"
Practical criticism
The signifying monkey
Johnson's critical presence
Selected prose of T. S. Eliot
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his time
Reader-response criticism
Heart of Darkness
Drifting on a read
The ideologies of theory
Translation Criticism - The Potentials and Limitations
I limiti dell'interpretazione
The poetic image
Anatomy of criticism
Ideological representation and power in social relations
English critical texts
Women novelists before Jane Austen
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