Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory - A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly.
New Criticism - University project on this school of literary theory.
Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory - Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.
New Criticism Explained - Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it.
Sacred Ambivalence - Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.
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.
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.
Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory - Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.
Glossary of Terms - Definitions of key words in the discussion of literary theory.
Glossary of Literary Theory - An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto.
Literary Theory - A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of 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.
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.
Marxist Criticism - Course materials covering Marxist critics such as George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser.
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
How to Use Formalist Tools to Analyze Literature - Step-by-step approach.
The Book Review Forum - Individualized forums for reviews and review writing.
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory - An index with brief explanations and bibliographies.
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.
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.
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