Notable works in critical theory

This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory.


 * 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


 * Roland Barthes
 * Image, Music, Text
 * Mythologies


 * Jean Baudrillard
 * Simulation and Simulacra


 * 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


 * 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


 * Gilles Deleuze
 * Difference and Repetition


 * Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
 * Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (pt.1) and A Thousand Plateaus (pt.2)


 * Jacques Derrida
 * Of Grammatology
 * Writing and Difference


 * Peter Dews
 * The Limits of Disenchantment
 * The Logic of Disintigration


 * 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


 * 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


 * 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


 * Ferdinand de Saussure
 * Cours de linguistique générale


 * 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


 * Raymond Tallis
 * Not Saussure


 * Scott Wilson
 * Cultural Materialism


 * W.K. Wimsatt
 * The Verbal Icon


 * Slavoj Žižek
 * The Sublime Object of Ideology
 * The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology