Illuminations Collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about critical theory, firmly based in Frankfurt School thought. http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

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

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

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

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

Semiotics Collection of links related to this approach. http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2339

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

The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview of interrelations between cyberspace and information technology on the one hand and critical theory and philosophy on the other. http://65.107.211.206/cpace/cspaceov.html

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

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

Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/lit.html

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

Glossary of Terms Definitions of key words in the discussion of literary theory. http://www.pfmb.uni-mb.si/eng/dept/eng/text/glos2.htm

Glossary of Literary Theory An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/headerindex.html

Literary Theory A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of Criticism. http://ios.org/pubs/F_litert.asp

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

CogWeb: Cognitive Cultural Studies Research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to literary and cultural studies. http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/

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

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

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. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/indexcriticism.html