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DJ's List of Literary Theory and Criticism

This is not exhaustive but I think it's a good representation of the range of literary theory and criticism, including some of my favorites.
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Ion (Plato)
Ion
Plato
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Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetics
Aristotle
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric
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Ars Poetica (Horace)
Ars Poetica
Horace
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On the Sublime
On the Sublime
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Insitutio Oratoria (Quintilian)
Insitutio Oratoria
Quintilian
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An Apology for Poetry (Sir Philip Sidney)
An Apology for Poetry
Sir Philip Sidney
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Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay (John Dryden)
Of Dramatic Poesy: An Essay
John Dryden
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The New Science (Giambattista Vico)
The New Science
Giambattista Vico
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An Essay on Criticism (Alexander Pope)
An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope
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The Lives of the English Poets (Samuel Johnson)
The Lives of the English Poets
Samuel Johnson
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime & Beautiful & Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Edmund Burke)
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime & Beautiful & Other Pre-Revolutionary Writings
Edmund Burke
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Laocoon (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Laocoon
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Friedrich Schiller)
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Friedrich Schiller
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Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth)
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth
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Biographia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A Defence of Poetry (Percy Shelley)
A Defence of Poetry
Percy Shelley
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The Poet (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Philosophy of Composition (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Philosophy of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Painter of Modern Life (Charles-Pierre Baudelaire)
The Painter of Modern Life
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (Matthew Arnold)
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
Matthew Arnold
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
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The Art of Fiction (Henry James)
The Art of Fiction
Henry James
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The Birth of Tragedy (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Critic as Artist (Oscar Wilde)
The Critic as Artist
Oscar Wilde
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The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis (Sigmund Freud)
The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis
Sigmund Freud
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Course in General Linguistics (De Saussure)
Course in General Linguistics
De Saussure
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Literature and Revolution (Leon Trotsky)
Literature and Revolution
Leon Trotsky
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A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
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Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent
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The New Criticism (John Crowe Ransom)
The New Criticism
John Crowe Ransom
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Mikhail Bakhtin)
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
Mikhail Bakhtin
34
The Culture Industry (Theodor Adorno)
The Culture Industry
Theodor Adorno
35
Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry (Roman Jakobson)
Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry
Roman Jakobson
36
The Philosophy of Literary Form (Kenneth Burke)
The Philosophy of Literary Form
Kenneth Burke
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Ecrits (Jacques Lacan)
Ecrits
Jacques Lacan
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What Is Literature? (Jean-Paul Sartre)
What Is Literature?
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Well-Wrought Urn (Cleanth Brooks)
The Well-Wrought Urn
Cleanth Brooks
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The Verbal Icon (W.K. Wimsatt)
The Verbal Icon
W.K. Wimsatt
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