List of works in critical theory
This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory.
- Otto Maria Carpeaux
- * História da Literatura Ocidental, 8 vol.
- M. H. Abrams
- * The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
- Theodor Adorno
- * Aesthetic Theory
- * Negative Dialectics
- Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
- * Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Louis Althusser
- * For Marx
- * Lenin and Philosophy
- Erich Auerbach
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- Mikhail Bakhtin
- * Discourse in the Novel
- * Rabelais and his World
- Roland Barthes
- * Image, Music, Text
- * Mythologies
- Jean Baudrillard
- *The Perfect Crime
- * Simulation and Simulacra
- Walter Benjamin
- * Illuminations
- * The Origin of German Tragic Drama
- Homi K. Bhabha
- * The Location of Culture
- Pierre Bourdieu
- * La distinction
- Kenneth Burke
- * A Rhetoric of Motives
- * A Grammar of Motives
- John Brannigan
- * New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
- Cleanth Brooks
- * The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- Sean Burke
- * The Death and Return of the Author
- Judith Butler
- * Bodies That Matter
- * Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
- Cathy Caruth
- * Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- *Biographia Literaria
- Jonathan Culler
- * Structuralist Poetics
- * The Pursuit of Signs
- * Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
- Gilles Deleuze
- * Difference and Repetition
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
- * Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus
- Jacques Derrida
- * Of Grammatology
- * Writing and Difference
- Peter Dews
- * The Limits of Disenchantment
- * The Logic of Disintigration
- Terry Eagleton
- * Marxism and Literary Criticism
- * The Idea of Culture
- Antony Easthope
- * The Unconscious
- William Empson
- * Seven Types of Ambiguity
- * Some Versions of Pastoral
- * The Structure of Complex Words
- Norman Fairclough
- *Language and Power
- *Critical Discourse Analysis
- Frantz Fanon
- * Black Skins, White Masks
- Stanley Fish
- * Is There a Text in this Class?
- Northrop Frye
- * Anatomy of Criticism
- Gerald Graff
- * Literature Against Itself
- Jürgen Habermas
- * Legitimation Crisis
- * The Theory of Communicative Action, volumes 1 & 2
- * The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
- Wolfgang Iser
- * The Act of Reading: a Theory of Aesthetic Response
- Leonard Jackson
- * The Poverty of Structuralism
- Fredric Jameson
- * The Political Unconscious
- * Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
- * The Prison-House of Language
- Frank Kermode
- * Romantic Image
- Julia Kristeva
- * Desire in Language
- * Powers of Horror
- Jacques Lacan
- * Ecrits
- * The Seminars
- F.R. Leavis
- * The Great Tradition
- Ania Loomba
- * Colonialism/Postcolonialism
- Herbert Marcuse
- * Reason and Revolution. Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
- * Eros and Civilization
- * Soviet Marxism. A Critical Analysis
- * One-Dimensional Man
- Toril Moi
- * Sexual/Textual Politics
- I.A. Richards
- * Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement
- * Principles of Literary Criticism
- K.K. Ruthven
- * Critical Assumptions
- Edward Said
- * Culture and Imperialism
- * Orientalism
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- * What Is Literature?
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- * Cours de linguistique générale
- Alfred Schmidt
- * The Concept of Nature in Marx
- * Zur Idee der Kritischen Theorie
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- * Between Men
- * Epistemology of the Closet
- Susan Sontag
- * Against Interpretation
- * Styles of Radical Will
- * Under the Sign of Saturn
- * Where The Stress Falls
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- * "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
- * In Other Worlds
- Raymond Tallis
- * Not Saussure
- Scott Wilson
- * Cultural Materialism
- W.K. Wimsatt
- * The Verbal Icon
- Virginia Woolf
- * A Room of One's Own
- Slavoj Žižek
- * The Sublime Object of Ideology
- * The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology''