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 [MORE] Hypertext (44) Narrative (8) 1. The Book Review Forum - Individualized forums for reviews and review writing. 2. Approaches to Reading and Interpretation - 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. 3. Criticism and Theory Resources - 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. 4. Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory - Overview of interrelations between cyberspace and information technology on the one hand and critical theory and philosophy on the other. 5. Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory - Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and literature, and literary theory. 6. Glossary of Literary Theory - An index of brief explanations of critical terms. Hosted by the University of Toronto. 7. Glossary of Terms - Definitions of key words in the discussion of literary theory. 8. How to Use Formalist Tools to Analyze Literature - Step-by-step approach. 9. Illuminations - Collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about critical theory, firmly based in Frankfurt School thought. 10. Introduction to Modern Literary Theory - An index with brief explanations and bibliographies. 11. Literary Theory - A study guide on Literary Theory provided by The Objectivist Center. Covers Aristotelian Theory, Post-Aristotelian Theory, and Chicago School of Criticism. 12. 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. 13. Literature and Ideology - An essay on the influence of Raymond Williams, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, and Terry Eagleton on postmodern critical theory. 14. Literature, Cognition, and the Brain - Research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience 15. Marxist Criticism - Course materials covering Marxist critics such as George Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser. 16. New Criticism - University project on this school of literary theory. 17. New Criticism Explained - Brief overview of New Criticism and the major writers connected with it. 18. Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry - Large index of poetry criticism. Has annotated e-texts of many classics. Part of the University of Toronto's English Library. 19. Sacred Ambivalence - Mimetology in Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus. 20. Some Characteristics of Contemporary Theory - Brief review of some of the premises shared by a several theoretical approaches. 21. Terms and Definitions - Definitions of some basic terms used in the discussion of literary theory. 22. The LitCrit ToolKit - 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. 23. Timeline of Critical Paradigms - Traces formalism, deep structuralism, and post-structuralism. Briefly looks at a few other schools as well. 24. Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory - A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet, mostly scholarly.

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