more links on different schools; complete list

means highly recommended

1. Bakhtin

• Mikhail Bakhtin
• Responses to Discourse in the Novel
• AN OVERVIEW OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY from the Gallery of Russian Thinkers

• Bakhtin and Hypertext from Hypertext in the Computer-Facilitated Writing Class
• Keeping the Self Intact During the Culture Wars: A Centennial Essay for Mikhail Bakhtin from the journal New Literary History
• Bakhtin's Legacy and the History of Science and Culture: An Interview with Anatolii Akhutin

     and Vladimir Bibler; from the journal Configurations
• Chomsky's Challenge: The Pertinence of Bakhtin's Theories
• More links on Baktin Center

• Structuralism and Semiotics
• Definition Words of Art (Robert Belton)--a brief definition
• Semiotics for Beginners (Daniel Chandler, University of Wales)--can be the first site in your further study!

 
--like a book, including sections on  Signs, Paradigms and Syntagms,  Syntagmatic Analysis,   Paradigmatic Analysis, Denotation and Connotation,   Metaphor and Metonymy, Codes, Articulation, Intertextuality,  Strengths of Semiotic Analysis, Criticisms of Semiotic Analysis, D.I.Y. Semiotic Analysis.
• Background Materials: Formalist and Structuralist Ideas
• Roland Barthes
• Roland Barthes Web Page (Chad Tuttle)
• Mythologies (Summary by students of Ann Ardis)
• Mythologies lecture notes
• Mythologies (1957) (Tony McNeill)
• --on Roland Barthes Mythologies (1957). -- for further reading; a comprehensive site on an essential text on the semiotic analysis of popular-cultural "texts". Menu and reading list.  (Developed by Tony McNeill at The University of Sunderland)

• Edward Said --

 

1. for beginners: Edward Said - Observation Worksheet Orientalism by Edward Said - A Socio-Political Overview Orientalism Revisited Edward Said on Imperialism ..[from "Yeats and Decolonization" 1988, delivered in Ireland] 1996 ... Edward Said; The Text, the World, The Critic  2. Recent controversies: Several essays on Said from Salon.com -- The myth weavers Three leading leftist figures (e.g. Said and Betty Fridan) have been exposed this year as having lied about their backgrounds. http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/09/27/said/index.html 3. Further research: The Edward Said Archive: a list of articles on and by Said available online, bibliographies, biographies, etc. Edward W. Said: A comprehensive and searchable Bibliography

• Homi Bhabha-- an Overview;
   Homi Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse" (E-Text; from Electronic Reserve Room)
• Spivak --Spivak; A Glossary of Key Terms in Gayatri Spivak's Work

 
• Stuart Hall

 
• Sara Suleri --  Issues of "Third World Woman"

• Gayle Rubin
• An essay on "The Traffic in Women..."
• Essay by Susan Scheuble, from California State, on Rubin's "The Traffic"
• Study questions on "The Traffic in Women..." for an advanced cource in Feminist Theories from University of Arizona
• Aselda Thompson, from UPenn, discussing Rubin's "Traffic..."
• Madwoman in the Attic:

The Book That Created a Canon: 'Madwoman in the Attic' Turns 20
 
• For research in world feminisms: Feminist Theory Website