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Hypertext
Personal Pages, ACM Special Interest Group for Hypertext and Hyper, alt.hypertext FAQ, BeeHive, Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Bey, Encyclopaedia and Hypertext, Hipertulia, ht_lit Mailing List, HyperContent, HyperJunk, Hyperizons, HyperLiterature/HyperTheory
Narrative
Brains, Minds, and Texts, Image and Narrative, Jahn, Manfred, Liquid Narrative, NarrNet, Ryan, Marie-Laure, The Narrative Act: Wittgenstein and Narratology
Burger with the Works, Please
A compilational web of student writings in the humanities - cultural studies, literary studies, critical theory, film studies, and semiotics. Maintained by Martin Zeilinger et al.
CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies
Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to literary and cultural studies.
Contemporary Literary Theory
Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.
Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory
Overview of interrelations between cyberspace and information technology on the one hand and critical theory and philosophy on the other.
Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory.
Formalist Tools
How to use this method to analyze literature.
Glossary of Literary Theory
An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto.
Glossary of Terms
Definitions of key words in the discussion of literary theory.
Illuminations
Collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about critical theory, firmly based in Frankfurt School thought.
Literary Criticism
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.
Literary Theory
A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of Criticism.
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.
Literature and Ideology
An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory.
Literature, Cognition, and the Brain
Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience
Marxist Criticism
Course materials covering Marxist critics such as George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser.
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.
Poetry Criticism
Large index of poetry criticism in both prose and verse. Has annotated e-texts of many classics. Part of the University of Toronto's English Library.
Post-Modern Critical Theory
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.
Sacred Ambivalence
Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.
Semiotics
Collection of links related to this approach.
Terms and Definitions
Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory.
The Book Review Forum
Individualized forums for reviews and review writing.
Timeline of Critical Paradigms
Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly.