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How Literature Saved My Life

David Shields

2013

The bounds of interpretation

Ellen Schauber

1986

White mythologies

Robert J. C. Young

1990

Premises

Werner Hamacher

1997

Forms of attention

Frank Kermode

1985

The Romantic Manifesto

Ayn Rand

1975

Linguistics and literary theory

Karl D. Uitti

1974

Literature and the question of philosophy

Anthony J. Cascardi

1987

Narrative and truth

Barry Emslie

2012

Hot property

Françoise Meltzer

1994

Faux pas

Maurice Blanchot

1971

Theoretical fables

Alicia Borinsky

1993

Literature, ethics, and aesthetics

Sabrina Achilles

2012

The disinherited mind

Erich Heller

1959

A Scream Goes Through the House

Arnold Weinstein

2003

Radical indecision

Hill, Leslie

2009

Roland Barthes, structuralism and after

Annette Lavers

1982

The semantics of literature

Trevor Eaton

1966

The poet as phenomenologist

Luke Fischer

2015

The sense of an ending

Frank Kermode

1967

Las Reglas del Arte

Pierre Bourdieu

1992

The renewal of literature

Poirier, Richard.

1987

Repetition And Identity

Catherine Pickstock

2013

Readings

Julian Wolfreys

2000

Theorie des modernen Dramas

Peter Szondi

1966

The three genres and the interpretation of lyric

William Elford Rogers

1983

Literarische Aufsatze

Ernst Bloch

1998

The use and abuse of literature

Marjorie B. Garber, Marjorie Garber

2011

Literary theory

Terry Eagleton

2008

The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory

J.A. Cuddon

1999

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