Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Oxford: Manchester UP, 2002. （liberal humanism, structuralism, post theories, psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, Marxism, new historicism and Cultural materialism, stylistics, narratology, ecocriticism）

Bradford, Richard. Roman Jakobson: Life, Language, Art. New York: Routledge, 1994. (Reception Theory)

Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. London: Cornell UP, 1978. （Narratology）

Cohn, Dorrit. Transparent Mind: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction. Taipei: Bookman, 1978.（Narratology）

Collier, Peter and Helga Geyer-Ryan Ed. Literary Theory Today. London: Cornell UP, 1990. （Narratology, reception, otherness）

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983.

Eagleton, Terry。《文學理論導讀》（Literary Theory: An Introduction）。吳新發譯。台北：書林。1982。 （phenomenology, hermeneutics, reception theory, structuralism, semiotics, post-strructuralism, psychoanalysis）

Genette, Gérard. Fiction and Diction . Trans. Catherine Porter. London: Cornell UP, 1993.（Narratology）

Hart, Kevin. The Trespass of the Sign. New York: Cambridge UP, 1989.（deconstruction, theology, and philosophy）

Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Leitch, Vincent B. etl ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. (Recommended, the major textbook for the Graduate Students)

Lydon, Mary. Skirting the Issue: Essays in Literary Theory. London: The U of Wisconsin P, 1996. （structuralism and psychology）

Payne, Michael. Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva. Oxford: Michael Payne, 1993.

Pietropaolo, Laura and Ada Testaferri Ed. Feminisms in the Cinema. Indiana: Indiana UP, 1995. 

Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Balckwell, 1998.

Ryan, Michael. Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. （formalism, structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, deconstruction, post-modernism, feminism, gender studies, historicism, ethnic, post-colonial, international studies, along with readings of Shakespeare’s King Lear, James’ “The Aspern papers, Elizabeth Biship’s poem, Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes.）

Scholes, Robert and Robert Kellogg. The Nature of Narrative. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1966. （Narratology）

Selden, Raman etl. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. 5^th ed. London: Person, 2005. （new criticism, Russian formalism, reader-oriented theories, structuralism, Marxism, feminism, gender studies, post theories）

Silverman, Hugh J. Cultural Semiosis. New York: Routledge, 1998. 

Todorov, Tzvetan. Introduction to Poetics. Tran. Richard Howard. Intro. Peter Brooks. Minnesota: U of Minnesota P, 1981.（Narratology）

---. Narrative Discourse Revisited. Trans. Janne E. Lewin. London: Cornell UP, 1988.（Narratology）

---. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Trans. Jane E. Lewin. Fore. Jonathan culler. London: Cornell UP, 1995.（Narratology）

Weedon, Chris。《女性主義實踐與後結構主義理論》（Feminist Practice & Poststructuralist Theory ）。白曉紅譯。台北：桂冠，1993。

王逢振。《文化研究》。台北：揚智，1993。

卡勒（Culler, Jonathan）。《文學理論》（Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction）。Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.

佛克馬（Douwe fokkema）及蟻布思（Elrud Ibsch）。《二十世紀文學理論》。台北：書林。1995。（formalism, structuralism, Marxism, reception theory）。 

呂正惠。《文學的後設思考：當代文學理論家》。台北：正中書局，1993。（Barthes, Benjamin, Kristeva）

徐崇溫。《結構主義與後結構主義》。台北：結構群文化，1986。

烏伯托艾柯。《結構主義與符號學》。台北：桂冠，1994。

廖炳惠。《解構批評論籍》。台北：東大，1985。

蓮達•赫哲仁（Linda Hutcheon）。《後現代主義的哲學》（The Politics of Postmodernism）。劉自荃譯。台北：駱駝出版社，1996。

蔡源煌。《當代文化理論與實踐》。台北：雅典，1996。(cultural studies)