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, 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 (critic), 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 Kenneth Dews, 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 (critic), 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 (book), Orientalism'' (1978) * Jean-Paul Sartre ** ''What Is Literature?'' (1947) * Ferdinand de Saussure ** ''Cours de linguistique générale'' (posthumously 1916) * Alfred Schmidt (philosopher), 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 (academic), 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''

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