List of works in critical theory

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


 * Otto Maria Carpeaux
 * History of Western Literature


 * Theodor Adorno
 * Aesthetic Theory


 * Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
 * Dialectic of Enlightenment


 * Louis Althusser
 * For Marx
 * Lenin and Philosophy


 * 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


 * Homi Bhabha
 * The Location of Culture


 * Pierre Bourdieu
 * La distinction


 * 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


 * 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 (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


 * 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?


 * Michel Foucault
 * Discipline and Punish
 * History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
 * The Order of Things


 * Northrop Frye
 * Anatomy of Criticism


 * Gerald Graff
 * Literature Against Itself


 * 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 Seminar"


 * F.R. Leavis
 * The Great Tradition


 * Ania Loomba
 * 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


 * Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
 * Between Men
 * Epistemology of the Closet


 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 * "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
 * In Other Words


 * Raymond Tallis
 * Not Saussure


 * Scott Wilson
 * Cultural Materialism


 * W.K. Wimsatt
 * The Verbal Icon


 * Virginia Woolf
 * A Room of One's Own


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