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. (Portuguese, 1959–66)
 * M. H. Abrams
 * The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
 * Angela Davis
 * Women, Race, and Class
 * Are Prisons Obsolete?
 * Theodor Adorno
 * Aesthetic Theory
 * Negative Dialectics
 * Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
 * Dialectic of Enlightenment
 * Louis Althusser
 * For Marx
 * Lenin and Philosophy
 * Erich Auerbach
 * Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
 * Mikhail Bakhtin
 * Discourse in the Novel
 * Rabelais and his World
 * Roland Barthes
 * Image, Music, Text
 * Mythologies (book)
 * 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 (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?
 * 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 (1978)
 * Jean-Paul Sartre
 * What Is Literature? (1947)
 * Ferdinand de Saussure
 * Cours de linguistique générale (posthumously 1916)
 * Alfred Schmidt
 * The Concept of Nature in Marx (1962)
 * Zur Idee der Kritischen Theorie (German, 1974)
 * 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