Social, Cultural and Literary Theory

Books and articles on all kinds of theory


Ahmed, S. (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotions. Routledge.

Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined Comunities. Verso.

Armstrong, I. (2000). The Radical Aesthetic. Blackwell.

Bachelard, G. (1964). The Poetics of Space. Beacon Press.

Barthes, R. (1974). S/Z. Blackwell.

Barthes, R. (1977). Image Music Text. Fontana Press.

Barthes, R. (1985). The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-80. University of California Press.

Barthes, R. (1989). The Rustle of Language. University of California Press.

Barthes, R. (1993). Mythologies. Vintage Classics.

Barthes, R. (2000). Camera Lucida. Vintage Classics.

Baudrillard, J. (1988). Selected Writings. Stanford University Press.

Beck, U. and Beck- Gernsheim, E. (2002). Individualization. Sage.

Belsey, C. (1980). Critical Practice. Routledge.

Benjamin, W. (1973). Illuminations. Fontana.
'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction'

Bhaba, Homi K. (1994). The Location of Culture. Routledge.

Birch, D. (1989). Language, Literature and Critical Practice. Routledge.

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1990). In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology. Polity Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1990). The Logic of Practice. Stanford University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1991). Language and Symbolic Power. Polity Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1996). The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Stanford University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1999). The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society (La Misere du Monde). Polity Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1977). Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture. Sage.

Bracher, M. (1993). Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: a Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism. Cornell University Press.

Butler, J. (1997). The Psychic Life of Power. Stanford University Press.

Butler, J. ed. Salih, S. (2004). The Judith Butler Reader. Blackwell Publishing.

Butler, J. (2005). Giving and Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham UP.

de Certeau, M. (1974/1998). Culture in the Plural. University of Minnesota Press.

de Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press.

Geertz, C. (1983). Local Knowledge. Basic Books.

Giddens, A. (1984). The Constitution of Society. Polity Press.

Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Polity Press.

Giddens, A. (1992). The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Stanford University Press.

Giddens, A. (1996). In Defence of Sociology. Polity Press.

Guillory, J. (1993). Cultural Capital: the Problem of Literary Canon Formation. University of Chicago Press.

Hodge, R. and Kress, G. (1979). Language as Ideology. Routledge.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1925/1971). The Psychology of Art. MIT Press.