Web Resources for Literary Criticism

General Resources

African American

Authorship

Classical

Feminism

New Criticism

Structuralism/Poststructuralism

General Resources

Literature Resource Center--via Messiah College

Voice of the Shuttle.

Timeline of Contemporary Theoretical Movements

Undergraduate Guide to Literary Theory.

Illuminations. http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

Theorists and Critics. http://www.popcultures.com/theorist.htm

Electronic Book Review. http://www.altx.com/ebr/

Bedford St. Martin's Litlinks. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/critical/index.htm

The English Server http://eserver.org/

CultStud-L. http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/index.html

Semiotics. http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/semiotics.html

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory:

Topics, Schools, and Individuals

African American Criticism

Definitions and Emphases

Authorship

On Foucault's essay "What is an Author?"

Reader's Guide to "What is an Author?"

General pages for Foucault

Classical

General Materials on Classical Theory

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/hypercritica/01.Classical/Classical.01.html

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/entries/b-classical_theory_and_criticism-_1.html

Plato

Plato's Republic, section 1: http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/republic39.htm

Plato's Republic, section 2: http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/republic40.htm

Plato's Republic, section 3: http://plato.evansville.edu/texts/jowett/republic41.htm

Aristotle

Aristotle's Poetics, section 1: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.1.1.html

Aristotle's Poetics, section 2: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.2.2.html

Aristotle's Poetics, section 3: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.3.3.html

Feminism

Postructuralist Feminism

Cixous

General Introduction to the thought of Helene Cixous

Interview with Helene Cixous

The Laugh of the Medusa

New Criticism

Structuralism/PostStructuralism

Deconstruction

Overview of Structuralism/Poststructuralism

Overview of Structuralism

Overview of Poststructuralism

Handouts Created for this Course