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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Author	4,042
2	Structuralism	3,345
3	Persona	3,129
4	Hermeneutics	3,104
5	Deconstruction	2,426
6	Narrator	1,763
7	Literary criticism	1,587
8	Index of literary terms	1,503
9	Literary theory	1,307
10	Pathetic fallacy	1,180
11	Poetics (Aristotle)	1,171
12	Metanarrative	852
13	Politics and the English Language	689
14	Book review	672
15	Poetry analysis	551
16	History of the Qur'an	551
17	New Criticism	547
18	Higher criticism	534
19	Postcolonial literature	507
20	Reader-response criticism	481
21	English studies	419
22	Feminist literary criticism	360
23	Formalism (literature)	353
24	Quintilian	346
25	Publishers Weekly	341
26	World literature	336
27	Archetypal literary criticism	333
28	Marxist literary criticism	332
29	Explication	322
30	Close reading	285
31	Confessional poetry	273
32	Psychoanalytic literary criticism	263
33	Longinus (literature)	247
34	Source criticism	247
35	An Apology for Poetry	237
36	Intentional fallacy	223
37	Grotesque body	208
38	Homeric Question	197
39	The Madwoman in the Attic	189
40	Heteroglossia	176
41	Tradition and the Individual Talent	163
42	Elaine Showalter	158
43	Understanding Comics	157
44	An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"	155
45	Sacrificial lamb	143
46	Sitz im Leben	124
47	Kirkus Reviews	123
48	Afflatus	118
49	Cultural materialism (cultural studies)	113
50	The Signifying Monkey	108
51	Litblog	107
52	Authorial intent	104
53	Seven Types of Ambiguity (Empson)	104
54	Women's writing in English	98
55	The Pleasure of the Text	88
56	Glossary of poetry terms	84
57	Semiotic literary criticism	80
58	Homeric scholarship	78
59	Beta reader	73
60	Against Interpretation	72
61	Notes on "Camp"	72
62	Sherlock Holmes was Wrong	72
63	Genius (literature)	71
64	The New York Intellectuals	70
65	National Book Critics Circle	67
66	Feminist criticism	65
67	Nature fakers controversy	65
68	Timeline of Shakespeare criticism	60
69	Affective fallacy	59
70	Tree and Leaf	58
71	Explication de Texte	56
72	Yale school	53
73	A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake	50
74	Thing theory	49
75	Rabelais and His World	49
76	Gynocriticism	48
77	Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature	48
78	Ninety-nine Novels	47
79	Sociological criticism	46
80	Node Magazine	46
81	Interpretive communities	45
82	Morphology (folkloristics)	45
83	Effect of Reality	45
84	MLN	42
85	Chicago school (literary criticism)	41
86	Bibliotheca (Photius)	41
87	The Tough Guide To Fantasyland	41
88	School of Resentment	39
89	Eco-criticism	38
90	Geneva School	37
91	Studies in Classic American Literature	37
92	Culture and Imperialism	35
93	The Discarded Image	34
94	Implied author	33
95	Citationality	33
96	Inside the Whale	33
97	Death of the novel	32
98	The Country and the City	31
99	Migrant literature	31
100	Introducing Kafka	31
101	Dramatistic pentad	30
102	A Preface to Paradise Lost	30
103	The Polysyllabic Spree	29
104	The Frontiers of Criticism	29
105	Hamlet (bibliographies)	29
106	Hispanism	29
107	Finn and Hengest	28
108	On Moral Fiction	28
109	Tractatus coislinianus	28
110	Imaginary Worlds – the Art of Fantasy	28
111	Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism	27
112	Authority (textual criticism)	27
113	Epic and Novel	27
114	The Singer of Tales	27
115	New Humanism	26
116	San Francisco Review of Books	25
117	Literary particularism	24
118	Carlos Baker	23
119	William Shakespeare (essay)	23
120	The Social Significance of the Modern Drama	23
121	Samuel Johnson's literary criticism	23
122	Richard Marggraf Turley	22
123	Reinventing Comics	22
124	Beowulf and the Critics	22
125	Free Play (Derrida)	22
126	ABC of Reading	22
127	Analysis of subjective logics	22
128	Cognitive poetics	21
129	After Words	20
130	On Translating Homer	20
131	The Machine in the Garden	20
132	Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings"	20
133	Formalist theory in composition studies	20
134	R. Radhakrishnan	20
135	An Experiment in Criticism	19
136	Reading the Romance	19
137	Conservative Christian Dragon fiction	19
138	Mumyōzōshi	19
139	The Resistance to Theory	19
140	The Explicator	18
141	Wlad Godzich	18
142	Six Walks in the Fictional Woods	17
143	Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress	17
144	Resistant Reading	17
145	In Search of Wonder	17
146	Identification (literature)	16
147	Pushkin studies	16
148	Horace Howard Furness	15
149	Booknotes	15
150	Fictocriticism	15
151	Shakespeare's Politics (book)	15
152	A Book of Prefaces	14
153	Grub Street Journal	14
154	The Literature of Georgia: A History	14
155	Female epic	14
156	Axel's Castle	13
157	Circular reporting	13
158	The Book of Prefaces	12
159	Viswanatha Kaviraja	12
160	Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels	12
161	Geocriticism	12
162	Realism in the Balance	11
163	Raffles and Miss Blandish	11
164	The Grumpy Old Bookman	10
165	Jeremy Hooker	10
166	Warren-Brooks Award	10
167	The Shakespeare Wars	10
168	The Wounded Surgeon (book)	10
169	Selected Essays, 1917-1932	10
170	Biographical fallacy	10
171	The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature	9
172	Address to Young Men on Greek Literature	9
173	Literary criticism in Iran	9
174	Of Other Worlds	9
175	Profane illumination	8
176	International Comparative Literature Association	8
177	Haunted in the New World	8
178	Anagrams of Desire	8
179	The D Case	8
180	Neo-Pagan (literature)	7
181	Mammonart	7
182	Critical Metrics	7
183	Hunting the Snark	7
184	Blurb (TV series)	6
185	The Cherryh Odyssey	less than 5 views
186	Futility As Tragedy: An Interpretation Of Hamlet	less than 5 views
187	The Ultimate Book Guide	less than 5 views
188	Wpływologia	less than 5 views
189	Asimov on Science Fiction	less than 5 views
190	W. C. Brownell	less than 5 views
191	Chorizontes	less than 5 views
192	The Guide to Modern World Literature	less than 5 views
193	Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the English Language	less than 5 views
194	Postmodern critics	less than 5 views
195	How Not to Write a Play	less than 5 views
196	Bookseller and Publisher (Australian magazine)	less than 5 views
197	The Individuated Hobbit	less than 5 views
198	The Reception of Derrida: Translation and Transformation	less than 5 views
199	Joseph Skerrett	less than 5 views
200	Self-Consuming Artifacts	less than 5 views
201	New York Times Sunday Review of Books	less than 5 views
202	The Chaucer Review	less than 5 views