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» Approaches to Reading and Interpretation - 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.




» Criticism and Theory Resources - 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.




» Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory - Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.




» Glossary of Literary Theory - An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto.




» How to Use Formalist Tools to Analyze Literature - Step-by-step approach.




» Illuminations - Collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about critical theory, firmly based in Frankfurt School thought.




» Introduction to Modern Literary Theory - An index with brief explanations and bibliographies.




» The LitCrit ToolKit - Beginner's guide to literary theory, demonstrating all the major schools of literary criticism by applying each to the beginning of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.




» Literary Theory - A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of Criticism.




» 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.




» Literature and Ideology - An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory.




» Literature, Cognition, and the Brain - Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience




» Marxist Criticism - Course materials covering Marxist critics such as George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser.




» New Criticism - University project on this school of literary theory.




» New Criticism Explained - Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it.




» Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry - Large index of poetry criticism. Has annotated e-texts of many classics. Part of the University of Toronto's English Library.




» Sacred Ambivalence - Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.




» Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory - Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.




» Terms and Definitions - Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory.




» Timeline of Critical Paradigms - Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well.




» Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory - A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly.

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