| 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. |
| Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory: Overview of interrelations between cyberspace and information technology on the one hand and critical theory and philosophy on the other. |
| 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. |
| Glossary of Terms: Definitions of key words in the discussion of literary theory. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The Book Review Forum: Individualized forums for reviews and review writing. |
| 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. |
| 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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