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Beginnings
by Edward
Said
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Theory of Criticism
A Tradition and Its System
by Murray Krieger
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Criticism:
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Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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446 pages
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Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Self and Other in Literary Structure
by Rene Girard
translaled by Yvonne Freccero
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Shelley
A Critical Reading
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Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
edited and translaled by Doris Dana
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