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Approaches to Reading and Interpretation

http://www.assumption.edu/users/ady/HHGateway/Gateway/Approaches.html

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

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism.html

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

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/lit.html

Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.

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Glossary of Literary Theory

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html

An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto.

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Illuminations

http://www.uta.edu/huma/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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Literary Theory Explorations

http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/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

http://www.english.ilstu.edu/strickland/495/ideology.html

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

http://www2.bc.edu/~richarad/lcb/home.html

Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience

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Marxist Criticism

http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/marxist.html

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

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Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/indexcriticism.cfm

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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The LitCrit ToolKit

http://www.geocities.com/litcrittoolkit/

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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