 this is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory. * otto maria carpeaux ** histÃ³ria da literatura ocidental, 8 vol. (portuguese, 1959â66) * 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 * 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 * 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 fÃ©lix 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 * jÃ¼rgen 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 struc
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