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 Criticism for High School Students

 
•   Literary Theory: Introductions

 
• In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
A Lexicon of Literary Criticism
• Website for Modern Critical Thought--

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.

• 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.
•  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

Contains a collection of websites.

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

 
• NEW CRITICISM (lecture 5)-- from  INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORY
• The New Criticism
   

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  Feminism

  • A Taxonomy of Feminist Intellectual Traditions
  
   
  • Helene Cixous' "The Laugh of the Medusa" ; Judith Butler: Gender Trouble
  
  Luce Irigaray
   
  • Queer Theory

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  • Structuralism and Semiotics
  • Structuralism: General introduction  from Literary Criticism Web
  • from Mary Klage's lecture notes--very useful
  • Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Claude Levi-Strauss: The Structural Study of Myth
  • Structuralism/Poststructuralism
  
   
  • 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)

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  Marxism

  • Ideology: A Brief Guide
  • Marxism and Ideology (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder)
  • Marxism (SWIRL)
  • Marxist Media Studies
  
   
  • The Communist Manifesto (study guide) (Paul Brians, Washington State U.)
  
   
  • Louis Althusser
  • A general introd. (k.i.s.s.)
  • Synopsis of "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago)
  • More websites on Althusser
  • Fredric Jameson (k.i.s.s.)
  • More Sites on Jameson
  • "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"  by Walter Benjamin &
  
  "Art & Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction"   by Julian H. Scaff

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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
  • Freudian Links
  
   
  • Jacque Lacan
  • The Mirror Stage from CriticaLinks
  • Lacanian Links

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

  Poststructuralism

  Postcolonialism

  • The Empire Writes Back to and from the Centre:  An Introductory Lecture
  • 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