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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.
- Die Critics Die - Dedicated to criticizing renowned film critics. Uses background biographical knowledge on the critics to discredit them.
- CanLit Criticism - Critical discussions about many Canadian authors.
- The Bible in the Criticfs Den, by Earle Albert Rowell - The Bible is under attack by Higher Criticism. This book reaffirms the absolute truth of the Bible in all aspects.
- Feral Children - Critical Period Hypothesis - Several useful papers, including Locke's suggesting the term 'sensitive period' instead of 'critical period', and Jones' looking at Genie's language acquisition after the critical period.
- Hollins University: Coed Graduate Programs: The Hollins Critic - Journal published five times a year presenting surveys of the entire body of the works of contemporary writers and brief reviews of books and poetry.
- Criticisms of Anarchism - Images of historical critical publications, mostly by socialists, provided by the Anarchy Archives.
- Stephan's Retrocomputing Site: Critical Mass - Manual, sollution and binaries for Apple II and Commodore 64.
- Critics.com - Each film's page features a list of syndicated critics' ratings of the film, links to their reviews, as well as quotes from two critics with opposing views.
- Yahoo! Groups: Critical Mass - Message board for Critical Mass issues around the world.
Wikipedia Articles
- Reader-response criticism - In literary criticism reader-response criticism focuses on the reader or audience, and modern concepts like Bertolt Brecht's alienation-effect or the Russian Formalists' "defamiliarization" or "cultural criticism" all predicate things about the experience of literature. One could argue that literary theory always involves a model of the literary experience, even if ...
- Linguistic Criticism - Linguistic Criticism is probably the oldest form of biblical criticism or textual criticism to develop.Queens University of Charlotte, History Department It relies heavily upon the study and knowledge of the Biblical languages - not just Koine Greek and Hebrew, but also Aramaic (the language Jesus Himself most likely spoke) and Egyptian (Moses' mother tongue).
- Film criticism - Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and published in journals.
- Eco-criticism - Eco-criticism is a form of literary criticism based on an ecological perspective. The eco-criticism investigates the relation between humans and the natural world in literature.
- New Criticism - New Criticism was the dominant trend in English and American literary criticism of the mid twentieth century, from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Its adherents were emphatic in their advocacy of close reading and attention to texts themselves, and their rejection of criticism based on extra-textual sources, especially biography.