To arrange the publications chronologically, we look at their individual release years:
1. A (Deconstruction and Criticism) - 1979
2. D (The Western Canon) - 1994
3. C (Literary Theory and the Claims of History) - 1985
4. E (An Appetite for Poetry) - 1994
5. B (Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities) - 1995
Thus, the order is D, C, B, E, A, which translates to 2 (AEDCB).