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Literary Theory


Critical Reading: An Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

This guide attempts to introduce literary theory and criticism to an undergraduate or otherwise uninitiated audience.
http://mesastate.edu/%7Eblaga/theoryindex/theoryhomex.html

Contemporary Literary Theory
From the Department of English, Brock University. Includes: General theory; Structuralism; Reader-Response; Poststructuralism, including Deconstruction; Critical Theories; Psychoanalytic Theory; as well as, links to other theory pages.
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/index.html

Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
Includes sections on: Gender & Sex; Marxism; Narratology; New Historicism; Postmodernism; Psychoanalysis.
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/

Literary Resources -- Theory
Site maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers. This page is a subsection of 'Literary Resources on the Net.'

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Lit/theory.html

SWIRL - Your Guide to Post-Millennial Paradigms
Includes: timelines of important theoritical paradigms; terms & definitions; a list of the 'Grand PoohBahs'; and more.
http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Swirl/swirl.htm

Voice of the Shuttle
Literary theory links from VOS.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718

www.theory.org.uk/
"Social theory for fans of popular culture. Popular culture for fans of social theory."

http://www.theory.org.uk/main.htm

 

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