Deleuze and Guattari’s “What Is a Minor Literature?” Deleuze and Guattari’s “What Is a Minor Literature?” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s essay “What Is a Minor Literature?” is one of the most influential texts in modern literary theory. It appears in their book Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature ...
Henry James’ “The Art of Fiction” Henry James’ “The Art of Fiction” Henry James’s essay “The Art of Fiction” (1884) is one of the most important critical essays on the novel ever written. In this essay, James defends the novel as a serious art form and explains what he believes makes fiction great. ...
Longinus’s On the Sublime Longinus’s On the Sublime On the Sublime is one of the most important works of ancient literary criticism. It is traditionally attributed to Longinus, though the exact identity of the author is uncertain. Written probably in the first century CE, the treatise is not just a ...
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