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 Absurdism - definition -- Brief explanation of this movement in modern drama and fiction.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) - The Dunciad: Book IV -- Electronic text of the 1742 edition. Critcism of bad poets.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)- An Essay on Criticism: Part 1 -- Electronic text of Part 1, annotated.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)- An Essay on Criticism: Part 2 -- Electronic text of Part 2, annotated.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)- An Essay on Criticism: Part 3 -- Electronic version of Part 3, annotated.
An Essay on Criticism -- Hypertext version at Carnegie Mellon University.
Biographia Literaria, Vol. 1 (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) -- Electronic text of the 1817 edition.
Black Feminist Criticism -- Discussion of Barbara McDowell''s essay," New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism" on this variant of Feminist Criticism.
Booth, Wayne C.: The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction -- Review of Booth''s theory of reading as the meeting of the character (ethos) of the author and the reader.
Charles S Peirce Studies -- Web site devoted to the works and life of Charles S Peirce, American philosopher and semiotician
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren -- Excerpts from: Understanding Poetry: An Anthology
Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-Missionary by Wayne C. Booth -- Important for the section discussing "Rhetorology" - later the basis for his "Rhetoric of Fiction".
Contemporary Literary Theory -- Brief review of premises relevant to the collection of theoretical approaches. Developed by John Lye, for university English courses.
Defence of Poetry: Part First by Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Plain text site, edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
Derridean Links -- "Probably the largest annotated Derridean link list in cyberspace"
Elocution and the Speech Arts -- Discusses the relationship between speech and literature in critical theory.
Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory -- Information on feminist literary criticism and theory, including autobiography, autography, autofiction, genre fiction, drama, theatre, plays, narrative, novels, poetry, and rhetoric.
Feminist Readings -- Overview of the woman''s movement, Feminist Criticism, and bibliography.
Formalist Tools -- How to use this method to Analyze literature.
Frye''s Legacy -- Discussion of "The Great Code", "Words with Power", and the role of Christian metaphor in modern literature.
Glossary of Literary Theory -- Brief explanations of major terms in the field.
Glossary of Terms -- Key words in the discussions of theory of literature.
Introduction to Literary Criticism - Longinus -- Discussion of the Longinian idea of transport as the basis for poetry (literature).
Introduction to Modern Literary/Cultural Theory -- Brief explanations and bibliographies of modern literary/cultural theory.
Introduction to Postmodernism -- Simple introduction to Postmodernism courtesy of English Professor, Mary Klages, at the University of Colorado.
Island of Freedom - Plotinus -- Plotinus a short introduction to his life and ideas
John Dryden (1631-1700) - Mac Flecknoe: A Satire upon the True-blue Protestant Poet T.S. -- Electronic text of this 1684 criticism of bad poets.
John Dryden - Of Dramatic Poesie -- Electronic text of the 1668 version of this essay.
Joyce and Feminist Criticism -- Bibliography related to the subject.
Learning Commons - What is Culture? - Definitions - Arnold -- Excerpts from Arnold, reflecting his views of culture and literature.
Leavisism and literary theory. -- Essay on the meeting of English literature and Cultural/social criticism.
Leslie Stephen - George Eliot (1902) -- E-text of the work.
Literary Language and Complex Literature -- Provides texts by James Luberda on literary theory, composition, medieval studies, and philosophy of mind, including a thesis on literary language and complex literature.
Literary Theory -- A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of Criticism.
Literature and Ideology -- Essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on Post-modern critical theory.
Marxist Criticism -- An academic summary of current Marxist criticism covering George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althuser, and other major critics and thinkers in this school. 1993 hypertext database.
Matthew Arnold (1882)- Culture and Anarchy -- Electronic text of the work.
Matthew Arnold - The Function OF Criticism At The Present Time -- Electronic text of this chapter from: "Essays in Criticism"
Michel Foucault''s Interpretive Analytics -- Discussion of the Postmodern "historiographic" theory of literature and culture.
Mythologies -- Lectures on Roland Barthes'' Mythologies by Tony McNeill
New Criticism -- University project on this school of literary theory.
New Criticism Explained! -- Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it.
Northrop Frye -- Biography, bibliography, and Victoria College collection.
Northrop Frye - Anatomy of Criticism -- Well-known quotes.
Northrop Frye - Anatomy of Criticism -- Exerpts from the introduction, and the four essays.
Northrop Frye and Simulation -- Lecture based on "The Educated Imagination". A set of theories that can help us understand the age of advanced technology and simulation we are now entering.
Northrop Frye''s Bible -- Review of "Words with Power", Frye''s last book.
Post-Modern Critical Theory -- Overviews of New Criticism/Formalism, Traditional Historicism, New Historicism, Reader-Response Criticism, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminist Literary Criticism, Structuralist Criticism, and Marxist Literary Criticism
Richard McKeon -- Bibliography and excerpts from this Chicago School of Criticism critic.
Roland Barthes and the Writerly Text -- Short introduction of the idea of how hypertext might produce Barthes''s ideal writerly text.
Romance as a Genre: Some Notes. -- Discussion of Romance and the Romantic novel and traditions in English Literature.
Sacred Ambivalence -- Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus- Classical works of Literary Theory.
Samuel Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare''s Plays -- Electronic text of the work.
Semiotics -- Collection of links related to this approach.
Simone de Beauvoir -- Within the cntext of the history of existential thought, contains a detailed biography of the famous feminist, a list of her works, quotations, and other resources.
Sir Philip Sidney - The Defence of Poesie -- Electronic version of th 1595 text.
Susan Sontag -- Offers a short biography, a list of selected works, and suggestions for further reading about this atypical critic.
Terms and Definitions -- Definitions of some basic terms used in discussion of Literary Theory.
Terry Eagleton: -- Reviews "Modern Times", by Conrad, and "Postcolonialism" by the premier British Marxist theorist.
The Arte of English Poesie (attributed to George Puttenham) -- Electronic text of the 3 books in the 1589 version.
The Legacy of Northrop Frye -- Review of the book.
The Six Enneads by Plotinus -- Translation of the major work that inspired the Neoplatonists.
Thomas Love Peacock - The Four Ages of Poetry -- Electronic text of the 1820 edition.
Timeline of Critical Paradigms -- Traces Formalism, Deep Structuralism, and Post-Structuralism. Brief look at a few other schools as well.
Victorian Canon Theory Archive -- Collection of thorists, Modern and Victorian, on Theory of Literature in the Victorian Period.
Virtual Reality, Hypertext and Feminist Criticism -- Essay on the subject: "Gesturing Toward the Visual" by Carolyn Guertin
Walter Pater - Style -- Electronic text of the 1888 version of this essay.
Walter Pater on Style -- From "Appreciations", a discussion of character, style, and good art (literature).
William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespear''s Plays,(1817) -- E-text of this Neoclassic work.
Works of Aristotle at LibertyOnline -- Translations of "Poetics", "Rhetoric", and "On Interpretation". Key to the Aristotelian school of Literary Theory.

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