- Comparative poetics, an intercultural essay on theories of literature, Earl Miner
- Writing about literature, Edgar V. Roberts
- Rules and conventions, literature, philosophy, social theory, edited by Mette Hjort
- The event of literature, Terry Eagleton
- New poets from old:, a study in literary genetics,, by Henry W. Wells
- Candor and perversion, literature, education, and the arts, Roger Shattuck
- The Cambridge introduction to narrative, H. Porter Abbott
- Literature, science, and a new humanities, Jonathan Gottschall.
- How to talk about books you haven't read, Pierre Bayard ; translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman
- Readings in Russian poetics:, formalist and structuralist views., Edited by Ladislav Matejka and Krystyna Pomorska
- The pleasures of reading, in an ideological age, Robert Alter
- Theory's empire, an anthology of dissent, edited by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral
- New directions in literary history, edited by Ralph Cohen
- Aestheticism and deconstruction, Pater, Derrida, and De Man, Jonathan Loesberg
- The study of literature
- Against the grain, essays 1975-1985, Terry Eagleton
- Critical theory since 1965, edited by Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle
- In search of literary theory,, by M. H. Abrams [and others] Edited by Morton W. Bloomfield
- Theory of literature, Paul H. Fry
- Interpretive synthesis, the task of literary scholarship, by Jost Hermand and Evelyn Torton Beck
- Truth and consequences, intentions, conventions, and the new thematics, Reed Way Dasenbrock
- Mikhail Bakhtin, an aesthetic for democracy, Ken Hirschkop
- Literary theory, an introduction, Terry Eagleton
- Black literature and literary theory, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- El libro de la literatura
- More alive and less lonely, on books and writers, Jonathan Lethem ; edited and with an introduction by Christopher Boucher
- The writer's voice, A. Alvarez
- Beginnings, intention and method, Edward W. Said
- Literature and its theorists, a personal view of twentieth-century criticism, Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Catherine Porter
- Tragic thoughts at the end of philosophy, language, literature, and ethical theory, Gerald L. Bruns
- The Norton anthology of theory and criticism, Vincent B. Leitch, general editor
- Critical theory since Plato, edited by Hazard Adams
- Literary theory, an anthology, edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan
- Culture and imperialism, Edward W. Said
- Literature as system;, essays toward the theory of literary history
- Character, three inquiries in literary studies, Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, Toril Moi
- Inconvenient fictions, literature and the limits of theory, Bernard Harrison
- The critical twilight, explorations in the ideology of Anglo-American literary theory from Eliot to McLuhan, John Fekete
- Writing about literature, essay and translation skills for university students of English and foreign literature, Judith Woolf
- Critical theory, a reader for literary and cultural studies, [selected and edited by] Robert Dale Parker
- Integrating literature and writing instruction, first-year English, humanities core courses, seminars, edited by Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris
- The theory of American literature
- No other book, selected essays, Randall Jarrell ; edited and with an introduction by Brad Leithauser
- Literary wonderlands, a journey through the greatest fictional worlds ever created, General Editor, Laura Miller
- The interests of criticism;, an introduction to literary theory
- Family resemblance, an anthology and exploration of 8 hybrid literary genres, edited by Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov
- Literary theory, David Carter
- The origins of criticism, literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece, Andrew Ford