more links on different schools; complete list

means highly recommended

• General Lit. Criticism & Theory Gateways and Sites

• Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research; Theory
   
• Online Literary Criticism

  --on individual authors of different areas and different periods;
  --3905  critical and biographical websites  about authors and their works.

  LitLinks  --collection of links on fiction, drama, poetry, critical theory and essays.
     
• Literary Theory: Introductions A very nice site, prepared by Mary Klages of the University of Colorado, this one is distinctive because it includes the instructor's lecture notes.
   
• In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
  A Lexicon of Literary Criticism
• Website for Modern Critical Thought--

  　

• Undergraduate Introduction to Literary Theory
  A spiffy introduction to new historicism, cultural materialism, psychoanalysis, and feminism, this site explains how each theory might be applied to a pair of sonnets from Spenser's Amoretti; the site was created by D. M. Felluga of Purdue University.
•  The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
•  John Hopkins Guide to Literature This site contains essays about literary theories and theorists, from Plato to the twentieth century.  Payment needed.
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought a collection of websites.

  　

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  New Criticism
   
• New Criticism -- from Glossary of Literary Theory at UTEL
• New Criticism -- from Introduction to Literature & Critical Theory
   

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  Feminism

  • A Taxonomy of Feminist Intellectual Traditions
     
  • Helene Cixous' "The Laugh of the Medusa" \

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  Structuralism and Semiotics

  • Structuralism: Definitions
  • Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Claude Levi-Strauss: The Structural Study of Myth
  • Structuralism/Poststructuralism
     
  • Semiotics for Beginners (Daniel Chandler, University of Wales)--can be the first site in your further study!
     
  • Roland Barthes  --collection of links

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  Marxism

  • Ideology: A Brief Guide
  • Marxism and Ideology (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
  • Marxist Media Studies
     
  • The Communist Manifesto (study guide) (Paul Brians, Washington State U.)
     
  • Louis Althusser
    • Synopsis of "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
    • More websites on Althusser
  • Fredric Jameson 
  • "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"  by Walter Benjamin, article summary, full-text

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  Psychoanalysis
  • What is Psychoanalysis?  A brief and practical explanation offered by American Psychoanalytic Association
  • Introduction to Psychoanalysis
  • Sigmund Freud
    • Sigmund Freud, An overview.   Recommended for beginners.
       
    • Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives
       
  • Jacques Lacan
    • Jacques Lacan  from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    　

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  Postmodernism
  • What is "Postmodernism"?
  • Post Modernism or post-Post Modernism?  (includes a list of postmodern arts)
  • Postmodernism

  Poststructuralism

  Postcolonialism

  • Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory
  • Third World and Third World Women
  • Postcolonialism at Fu Jen Literary Criticism Databank: outlines of major theories and bibliographies (under construction)
  • Major Websites
  • Emory University: Postcolonial Studies: Content Page, including links to many authors and issues.
  • SAWNET: Books by and about South Asian Women
  • Colonial/Post-Colonial Web Sites