Littérature
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A Christmas Carol
Great Books
The vision of tragedy
White mythologies
The Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms
Philip Morrison's long look at the literature
Into the looking-glass wood
Critical approaches to literature
The demonic
In Fact
Tradition and experiment in present-day literature
Translating literature
Quotation marks
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
Beauty and Sadness
The Western canon
Academic instincts
Licensing entertainment
Soviet society and culture
Marx and modern fiction
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Writing and Being
Deleuze and Guattari
Paul and Ancient Views of Sexual Desire
El lenguaje de la pasión
The image of the city in modern literature
The making of middle/brow culture
Food and drink in literature
A handbook to literature
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