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» Burger with the Works, Please - A compilational web of student writings in the humanities - cultural studies, literary studies, critical theory, film studies, and semiotics. Maintained by Martin Zeilinger et al.
» CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies - Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to literary and cultural studies.
» Contemporary Literary Theory - Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.
» Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory - Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.
» Feminist Literary Theory and Fairy Tales - A feminist reading of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
» Formalist Tools - How to use this method to analyze literature.
» 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.
» 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 Criticism - 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.
» 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.
» Poetry Criticism - Large index of poetry criticism in both prose and verse. Has annotated e-texts of many classics. Part of the University of Toronto's English Library.
» Post-Modern Critical Theory - 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.
» Sacred Ambivalence - Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.
» Semiotics - Collection of links related to this approach.
» Terms and Definitions - Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory.
» The Cyberspace and Critical Theory - Overview of interrelations between cyberspace and information technology on the one hand and critical theory and philosophy on the other.
» 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.