- Illuminations - http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
Collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about critical theory, firmly based in Frankfurt School thought.
- New Criticism - http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/newcrit.html
University project on this school of literary theory.
- Contemporary Literary Theory - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html
Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.
- New Criticism Explained - http://www.sou.edu/English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Explaind/ncritexp.htm
Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it.
- Semiotics - http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2339
Collection of links related to this approach.
- Sacred Ambivalence - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/anthropoetics/ap0101/schneid.htm
Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.
- Literary Theory Explorations - http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/literary_theory_explorations
The world of literary theory is an ever changing hot bed of debate. Here it is explored in all its facets, from semiotics, to classicism, surrealism, and post modernism.
- Post-Modern Critical Theory - http://www.assumption.edu/users/ady/HHGateway/Gateway/Approaches.html
Overviews of the new criticism and formalism, traditional historicism, new historicism, reader-response criticism, psychoanalytical criticism, feminist literary criticism, structuralist criticism, and Marxist literary criticism.
- Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory - http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/lit.html
Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.
- Glossary of Terms - http://www.pfmb.uni-mb.si/eng/dept/eng/text/glos2.htm
Definitions of key words in the discussion of literary theory.
- Glossary of Literary Theory - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html
An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto.
- Literary Theory - http://ios.org/pubs/F_litert.asp
A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of Criticism.
- Literary Criticism - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism.html
Resource page hosted by the University of Toronto. Has an essay on the Postmodern by Linda Hutcheon, a glossary of literary theory, Hazlitt's essays on the characters of Shakespeare's plays, and Leslie Stephen on George Eliot.
- CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies - http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/
Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to literary and cultural studies.
- Terms and Definitions - http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Terms/terms.htm
Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory.
- Timeline of Critical Paradigms - http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/timeline/uslit.htm
Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well.
- Poetry Criticism - http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/indexcriticism.html
Large index of poetry criticism in both prose and verse. Has annotated e-texts of many classics. Part of the University of Toronto's English Library.
- Marxist Criticism - http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/marxist.html
Course materials covering Marxist critics such as George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser.
- Literature and Ideology - http://www.cas.ilstu.edu/english/strickland/495/ideology.html
An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory.
- Formalist Tools - http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Paradigm/Resources/formalst.htm
How to use this method to analyze literature.
- Burger with the Works, Please - http://www.8ung.at/burgerplease/
A compilational web of student writings in the humanities - cultural studies, literary studies, critical theory, film studies, and semiotics. Maintained by Martin Zeilinger et al.
- The Book Review Forum - http://www.aimoo.com/forum/freeboard.cfm?id=491840
Individualized forums for reviews and review writing.
- Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory - http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/
Overview of interrelations between cyberspace and information technology on the one hand and critical theory and philosophy on the other.
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