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Essays in literary theory

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

1935 essay by Walter Benjamin; proposes that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of an artwork, that—in the age of mechanical reproduction and traditional ritualistic value’s absence—art production would be inherently based on political praxis

The Death of the Author

1967 essay by Roland Barthes

The Philosophy of Composition

1846 essay written by Edgar Allan Poe

Theses on the Philosophy of History

essay by Walter Benjamin

What Is an Author?

lecture given by Michel Foucault

A Defence of Poetry

essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry

essay by Friedrich Schiller

What Is Literature?

Essay by Sartre