Web Directory

» 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

» 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

» 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

» 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

» 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