# 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