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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. http://www.assumption.edu/users/ady/HHGateway/Gateway/Approaches.html

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. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism.html

Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/lit.html

Glossary of Literary Theory An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html

How to Use Formalist Tools to Analyze Literature Step-by-step approach. http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Paradigm/Resources/formalst.htm

Illuminations Collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about critical theory, firmly based in Frankfurt School thought. http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory An index with brief explanations and bibliographies. http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm

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. http://www.geocities.com/litcrittoolkit/

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. http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/literary_theory_explorations

Literature and Ideology An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory. http://www.english.ilstu.edu/strickland/495/ideology.html

Literature, Cognition, and the Brain Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience http://www2.bc.edu/~richarad/lcb/home.html

Marxist Criticism Course materials covering Marxist critics such as George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser. http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/marxist.html

New Criticism University project on this school of literary theory. http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/newcrit.html

New Criticism Explained Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it. http://www.sou.edu/English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Explaind/ncritexp.htm

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. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/indexcriticism.cfm

Sacred Ambivalence Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/anthropoetics/ap0101/schneid.htm

Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches. http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html

Terms and Definitions Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory. http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Terms/terms.htm

Timeline of Critical Paradigms Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well. http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/timeline/uslit.htm

Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly. http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718