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