What to Read After Literary theory
Readers who loved Literary theory by Terry Eagleton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Literary theory is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Literary theory
Mythologies
Literary Theory
The dialogic imagination
S/Z
Mimesis
Beginning theory
Anatomy of criticism
On Literature
A glossary of literary terms
Literary criticism
An introduction to literature criticism and theory
Illuminations
Marxism and literature
The political unconscious
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Simulacra and Simulation
Culture and imperialism
Marxism and literary criticism
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Of grammatology
Image, music, text
The order of things
Specters of Marx
The culture industry