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Literary theory attempts to establish principles for interpreting and evaluating literary texts. Key issues include: authoral intention, interpretive objectivity, as well as structure, and historical, social, religious, political, and philosophic issues. These issues have given rise to a variety of sub-theories, "schools", or approaches. Critics have used one or more of these different approaches to write about works of literature. Here are found sites about theorists and their works,including texts, as well as discussion of approaches they are/were associated with.

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Resources in This Category

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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