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Literary Theory and Literary Criticism
A Web Directory
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Critics and Theoreticians   A  D  K  S
Semiotics  Deconstruction  Postmodernism
Culture Studies  Gender Studies

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Alternative Press Center
An index of alternative magazines, journals, online resources. Alternative viewpoints from around the world. Searchable under subject, name, author.

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Areté,
the Arts Tri-quarterly, UK.

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Aristotle's Poetics
Full, annotated text from The Perseus Project.

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Art and Culture
An ezine and website with a literary theory section.

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Articles from Google Scholar.
Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

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Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Online version. of the encyclopedia in 14 volumes.

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Carpe,
a German art and literary magazine.

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Comparative Literature and Theory
Eclat;  a web directory from The University of Pennsylvania.

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Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought.
Contemporary theorists, Postmodernism.

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CTheory
A journal with articles on art and literary theory, technology and society.

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Cultural studies

Cultural Studies
Links to numerous sociology, political theory, post-colonial and mass culture studies web pages. From   The Voice of the Shuttle.
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Cultural Studies and Critical Theory EServer
Cultural studies and critical theory combine sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies..

Cyberspace and Critical Theory (from Brown University).
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Deconstruction

Deconstruction:
A school of philosophy that originated in France in the late 1960s, has had an enormous impact on Anglo-American criticism. Largely the creation of its chief proponent Jacques Derrida, deconstruction upends the Western metaphysical tradition.

Deconstruction in Music
An online dissertation by music teacher and philosopher Marcel Cobussen. Discusses J.S. Bach, John Zorn, John Cage, and Jacques Derrida. Interactive Dissertation, Department of Art and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This website contains sound fragments.

Diacritics
An influential forum for scholars writing on the problems of literary criticism.
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Dogma
Dogma is an electronic journal that publishes articles and reviews in the areas of philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, political theory, aesthetics, and sociology. Most of the articles appear here in French, but there is also some material in English and German.

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Enculturation
An Electric journal for cultural studies, rhetorics & theories.

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The Exquisite Corpse,
a review journal.

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European Graduate School/EGS/Media and Communications Department.
The school, founded, amongst others, by Jean Francois Lyotard, includes the following faculty members:
Giorgio Agamben, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Victor Burgin, Donna Haraway, Avital Ronell, Slavoj Zizek.
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Feminist criticism and theory.
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French literary theory (from Rutgers University).
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Gender studies

Genders OnLine Journal -
peer-reviewed academic journal publishing essays about gender and sexuality.
Global Ideas Bank. Institute for Social Inventions, London, UK.
'Submit an idea'.

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Glossary of Literary Theory
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Google Book Search
Search the full text of books in major university libraries around the world.

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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

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llluminations: The Critical Theory WWW research resource for those interested in the Critical Theory Project. Firmly based in Frankfurt School thought, this site maintains a collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory.
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Internet Public Library
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period. French, Italian, Spanish, German and British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese literary criticism,
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Introductory Guide to Literary and Critical Theory

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John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
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Journals

Journals on critical and literary theory.
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Journals of literary criticism online,
a web index from the Internet Public Library.
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Lacan, Jacques. Jacques Lacan website links, internet resources.
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Lectures. Lectures recorded on video by leading critics, theorists and philosophers.
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Literary theory directories

Literary critcism online, from the Internet Public Library.
Browse internationally by author or country. Criticism from ancient times to the present.

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Literary Theory. General web site links from  The Voice of the Shuttle.
Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, the history of literary theory and criticism from Ancient Greece to the present, literary theory mailing lists, media theory mailing lists.

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Literary theory, media theory (from Leeds University, UK).
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Literary theory, semiology and criticism (from Ohio State University).
London Review of Books
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Marxist criticism, Marxist critics.
A summary.

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Media Studies
Communications, television, general literary and media studies websites. Voice of the Shuttle

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Narrative

Narrative psychology. An internet guide.
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Journal of Narrative Theory
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Narrativity,
a critical journal of innovative narrative. An on-line journal dedicated to the articulation of ideas about theory-based narrative.

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The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, a journal.
Online literary criticism from the Internet Public library.
Over 3300 articles from the pre-1500s to the present day. An author index and a period index.

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Poetics Today
Poetics Today brings together scholars from throughout the world who are concerned with developing systematic approaches to the study of literature (e.g., semiotics and narratology).
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Poetry criticism. Class texts,
including Walter Pater, Pope, Peacock, Addison.

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Postmodernism

Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Theory
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Postmodern Culture,
a critical ezine from the John Hopkins University Press and The University of Virginia.

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Theory.org.uk
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Postmodern theory.
Directory of writers and social issues.
Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism, Wikipedia entry.
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Poststructuralism.info
A collaborative web site that aims to allow users not only to describe post-structuralist ideas, but to create new ideas and concepts based on post-structuralist foundations.


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Russian Formalism, Wikipedia entry.

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Semiotics . See also:  Theoreticians

Applied Semiotcs
A refereed journal of literary research on the World Wide Web.

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Directory of semiotics and semioticians
(from the University of Colorado, Denver).

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Semiotics, semioticians.
Introductory essays on the basic concepts and the major players.

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Hydra
Resources on Derrida, Lacan, Artaud and others.

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The Semiotics of the Web
An article by Phillipe Codognet.
The Slought Foundation
is a not-for-profit organization in Philadelphia that broadly encourages new futures for contemporary life through public programs featuring international artists, architects, and theorists. Our programs are purposely critical and provocative in an intimate and participatory environment, and we invite our audiences to consider criticality itself as a source of dynamism and enjoyment. The site includes several hundred audio recordings of interviews, lectures and discussions.
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The Society for Critical Exchange
North America's oldest scholarly organization devoted to theory.
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Structuralism

Wikipedia entry on literary theory.

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Theoreticians, writings on literary theory
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Directory of semiotics and semioticians
(from the University of Colorado, Denver).
 

Theoreticans, literary critics

Adorno, Theodor W, Theodor W Adorno

Theodor Adorno
Wikipedia entry.

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Theodor Adorno
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Theodor Adorno Internet Archive

Barthes, Roland. Roland Barthes
Wikipedia entry.

Roland Barthes introduction.
Baudrillard, Jean. Jean Baudrillard
The World of Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
Wikipedia entry.
Benjamin, Walter. Walter Benjamin
Resources from the Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate.

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Bloom, Harold. Harold Bloom website:
reviews, lectures, excerpts, webpage links.

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Cixous, Hélène. The Hélène Cixous website.
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Debord, Guy. Guy Debord
Internet links.
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Deleuze, Gilles. Gilles Deleuze Wikipedia entry.
Gilles Deleuze
WWW Resources
Derrida, Jacques. A Derrida Wikipedia entry.
Derrida interviews.
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Guide to the Saffa Fathy Video Recordings of Jacques Derrida Lectures.
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Derrida Archives at Online Archives of California
Typescripts, and recordings documenting the professional career of Jacques Derrida and providing comprehensive documentation of his activities as a student, teacher, and scholar. University of California, Irvine.

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Derrida Stanford lectures.
Eliot, T. S.  T. S. Eliot.
The Sacred Wood, Essays on Poetry and Criticism
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Empson, William. William Empson
Wikipedia entry.
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Finkielkraut, Alain. Alain Finkielkraut,
contemporary French literary and social critic.

Alain Finkielkraut
Citations. Evene.fr

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Alain Finkielkraut
Bibliomonde

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Alain Finkielkraut
New York Review of Books

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Alain Finkielkraut
Le foulard et l'espace sacré de l'école
Foucault, Michel. Michel Foucault Homepage
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Jacobson, Roman. Roman Jacobson
Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning
Roman Jakobson
Linguistik und Poetik
Jabes, Edmond. Edmond Jabès
Wikipedia entry.

Edmond Jabès
Online texts.
Kaplan, Robert J.  Robert J Kaplan, social theorist.
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Frank Kermode
Reviews from The New York Times.

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Kristeva, Julia. Julia Kristeva
Wikipedia entry.
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Lacan, Jacques. Jacques Lacan
Web links, internet resources.
Jacques Lacan
Wikpedia entry.

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Jacques Lacan
El Web de Jacques Lacan
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Wikipedia
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Lévinas, Emmanuel. Emmanuel Levinas
Wikipedia entry.

Lotman, Yuri, Yuri Lotman

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Lukács, György. Gyorgy Lukacs
Online esays.

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Lyotard, Jean-Francois. Jean-François Lyotard

Wikipedia entry.


Nietzsche, Friedrich. Friedrich Nietzsche webpage.
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Pierce, Charles S. Charles S, Pierce
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Reich-Ranicki, Marcel. Marcel Reich-Ranicki
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Richard, I. A. I. A. Richards

Wikipedia entry.
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Said, Edward. Edward Said Archives (unofficial site).

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Schiller, Friedrich. Friedrich Schiller Homepage

Friedrich Schiller webpages,
a web directory from Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin.

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Friedrich Schiller
Etexts in German from Project Gutenberg.
Sontag, Susan. Susan Sontag official page.
Against Interpretation  extract.
Susan Sontag
Background information.
Steiner, George. George Steiner
In Bluebeard's Castle

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Vitalpoetics
A journal of critical literary theory.

Voice of the Shuttle
A comprehensive index of websites realating to literary theory.

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