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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.
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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.
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Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.
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An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto.
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Step-by-step approach.
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Critical theory resource site, with a strong focus on the Frankfurt School and its legacy. Provided by Prof. D. Kellner.
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An index with brief explanations and bibliographies.
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A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of Criticism.
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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.
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An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory.
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Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience
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An academic summary of current Marxist criticism covering George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althuser, and other major critics and thinkers in this school. 1993 hypertext database.
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University project on this school of literary theory.
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Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it.
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Large index of poetry criticism. Has annotated e-texts of many classics. Part of the University of Toronto's English Library.
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Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.
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Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.
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Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory.
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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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Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well.
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A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly.
