Theory Criticism Books
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,222 ratings — published 1978
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,647 ratings — published 1983
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,270 ratings — published 1989
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,737 ratings — published 1942
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,153 ratings — published -335
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,238 ratings — published 1966
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,535 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,378 ratings — published 1976
The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,857 ratings — published 1973
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,575 ratings — published 1997
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 430,175 ratings — published 1972
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,408 ratings — published 1955
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 255,073 ratings — published 1929
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,044 ratings — published 1957
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,092 ratings — published 1979
Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.84 — 874 ratings — published 1919
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,954 ratings — published 1957
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,986 ratings — published 1980
The Death of the Author
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,219 ratings — published 1967
What is an Author? (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.78 — 907 ratings — published 1969
A Defence of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,225 ratings — published 1595
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,378 ratings — published 1981
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,955 ratings — published 1995
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,858 ratings — published 1973
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,546 ratings — published 1977
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,128 ratings — published 2001
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,073 ratings — published 1957
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,506 ratings — published 1984
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,501 ratings — published 1992
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,426 ratings — published 1961
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,096 ratings — published 2008
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,598 ratings — published 2003
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,845 ratings — published 2003
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,935 ratings — published 2009
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,841 ratings — published 2000
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.59 — 613 ratings — published 1800
Of Grammatology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,327 ratings — published 1967
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,163 ratings — published 1980
Why Read the Classics? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,331 ratings — published 1991
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,595 ratings — published 1975
An Essay On Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,501 ratings — published 1711
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,737 ratings — published 1973
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,316 ratings — published 1977
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,375 ratings — published 1969
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,270 ratings — published 1961
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,804 ratings — published 1993
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,056 ratings — published 1982
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,804 ratings — published 1952
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,812 ratings — published 1949
Literary Theory: An Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as theory-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 987 ratings — published 1997
