List of works in critical theory
This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory.
- M. H. Abrams
- The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
- 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
- Peter Dews
- The Limits of Disenchantment
- The Logic of Disintigration
- William Empson
- Seven Types of Ambiguity
- Some Versions of Pastoral
- The Structure of Complex Words
- Michel Foucault
- Discipline and Punish
- History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
- The Order of Things
- The Archaeology of Knowledge
- Jürgen Habermas
- Legitimation Crisis
- The Theory of Communicative Action, volumes 1 & 2
- The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
- Leonard Jackson
- The Poverty of Structuralism
- Ania Loomba
- Colonialism/Postcolonialism
- I.A. Richards
- Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement
- Principles of Literary Criticism
- Susan Sontag
- Against Interpretation
- Styles of Radical Will
- Under the Sign of Saturn
- Where The Stress Falls
- Slavoj Žižek
- The Sublime Object of Ideology
- The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
See also