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Approaches to Reading and Interpretation -
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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Criticism and Theory Resources -
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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Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory -
Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.

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Glossary of Literary Theory -
An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto.

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How to Use Formalist Tools to Analyze Literature -
Step-by-step approach.

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Illuminations -
Collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about critical theory, firmly based in Frankfurt School thought.

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Introduction to Modern Literary Theory -
An index with brief explanations and bibliographies.

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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.

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Literature and Ideology -
An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory.

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Literature, Cognition, and the Brain -
Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience

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Marxist Criticism -
Course materials covering Marxist critics such as George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser.

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New Criticism -
University project on this school of literary theory.

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New Criticism Explained -
Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it.

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Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry -
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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Sacred Ambivalence - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/anthropoetics/ap0101/schneid.htm
Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.

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Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html
Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.

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Terms and Definitions - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html
Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory.

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The LitCrit ToolKit - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html
Beginner's guide to literary theory, demonstrating all the major schools of literary criticism by applying each to the beginning of Charlotte Brontė's Jane Eyre.

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Timeline of Critical Paradigms - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html
Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well.

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Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html
A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly.

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