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The Bluffer's Guide to Literature - Michael Kerrigan - Page 12

The "Bluffer's Guide" is a series of short, sarcastically witty guidebooks that enable a Bluffer to give the impression that they are an expert in something highly valued.... like, say, literature.
Michael Kerrigan wrote this one. It's a bit of an idiosyncratic list of books: a lot of prose, a lot of poetry, a smattering of plays, and some diehard books on literary theory right at the end, so you look really clever. Where just an author's name was mentioned, I chose a representative book.
The topics are: Britain, the United States, Post-War, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Rest of the World, a diversity section (1980s-level), and Critical Theory.
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441
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
442
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
443
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
444
The Weary Blues (Langston Hughes)
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
445
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
446
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
Toni Morrison
447
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
448
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Not Enuf (Ntozake Shange)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Not Enuf
Ntozake Shange
449
Black British Literature (Prahbu Guptara)
Black British Literature
Prahbu Guptara
450
A Dangerous Knowing (Sheba)
A Dangerous Knowing
Sheba
451
Ain't I a Woman. a Book of Women's Poetry From Around the World (Illona Linthwaite (Ed.))
Ain't I a Woman. a Book of Women's Poetry From Around the World
Illona Linthwaite (Ed.)
452
Room at the Top (John Braine)
Room at the Top
John Braine
453
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
454
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia
Aeschylus
455
Tennyson's Poetry (Alfred Tennyson)
Tennyson's Poetry
Alfred Tennyson
456
Selected Poetry (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Selected Poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
457
Essays in Appreciation (Christopher Ricks)
Essays in Appreciation
Christopher Ricks
458
The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature (John Bayley)
The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature
John Bayley
459
Course in General Linguistics (De Saussure)
Course in General Linguistics
De Saussure
460
The Official Highway Code
The Official Highway Code
461
Tristes Tropiques (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
Tristes Tropiques
Claude Lévi-Strauss
462
The Death of the Author (Roland Barthes)
The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes
463
Mythologies (Roland Barthes)
Mythologies
Roland Barthes
464
Ecrits (Jacques Lacan)
Ecrits
Jacques Lacan
465
The Order of Things (Michel Foucault)
The Order of Things
Michel Foucault
466
Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
467
Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
468
On the Reproduction of Capitalism (Louis Althusser)
On the Reproduction of Capitalism
Louis Althusser
469
Desire in Language (Julia Kristeva)
Desire in Language
Julia Kristeva
470
This Sex Which Is Not One (Luce Irigaray)
This Sex Which Is Not One
Luce Irigaray
471
The Laugh of Medusa (Hélène Cixous)
The Laugh of Medusa
Hélène Cixous
472
Of Grammatology (Jacques Derrida)
Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida
473
Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (Geoffrey Hartman)
Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today
Geoffrey Hartman
474
The Linguistic Moment (J. Hillis Miller)
The Linguistic Moment
J. Hillis Miller
475
Blindness and Insight (Paul De Man)
Blindness and Insight
Paul De Man
476
The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom
477
Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (Hans Robert Jauss)
Toward an Aesthetic of Reception
Hans Robert Jauss
478
Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology (Wolfgang Iser)
Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology
Wolfgang Iser
479
Is There a Text in This Class (Stanley Fish)
Is There a Text in This Class
Stanley Fish
480
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Terry Eagleton)
Literary Theory: An Introduction
Terry Eagleton
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