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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.

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.

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.

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.

How to Use Formalist Tools to Analyze Literature - http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Paradigm/Resources/formalst.htm Step-by-step approach.

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.

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory - http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm An index with brief explanations and bibliographies.

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.

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.

Literature, Cognition, and the Brain - http://www2.bc.edu/~richarad/lcb/home.html Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience

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.

New Criticism - http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/newcrit.html University project on this school of literary theory.

New Criticism Explained - http://www.sou.edu/English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Explaind/ncritexp.htm Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it.

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.

Sacred Ambivalence - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/anthropoetics/ap0101/schneid.htm Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus.

Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/characteristics.html Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches.

Terms and Definitions - http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Terms/terms.htm Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory.

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 Brontë's Jane Eyre.

Timeline of Critical Paradigms - http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/timeline/uslit.htm Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well.

Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory - http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718 A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly.

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