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Literary Criticism/Literary Theory Index

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology - A bibliography of literary studies, criticism and philology. It consists of 5,000 text files listing over 250,000 items (books, book chapters, articles, films, websites, etc.), with a main focus on English-speaking authors and criticism or literary theory written in English, although there are many listings on linguistics, cultural studies, discourse analysis, and other philological subjects.
Booknotes - For sixteen years, from 1989 to 2004, Booknotes was C-SPAN's signature author-interview program. Focusing exclusively on contemporary nonfiction books, the Booknotes series created an unparalleled television forum for writers of history, biography, politics, and public affairs. Booknotes format was simple: One author, one book, one hour. For a full hour every Sunday night, fifty-two weeks a year, nonfiction writers were asked to discuss their most recent work. Beyond the book's subject matter, authors were also queried about their research, their writing process, and their own lives and influences. The result is a valuable video resource for authors, researchers, students, readers and educators. 800 intrerviews from April 1989-December 2004.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature - All 18 volumes online. Edited by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture - Peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access online learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies."
Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America - A journal that fosters intellectual debate regarding Latin American culture and literature with a sociological and historical scope.
Cyberspace, Hypertext, and Critical Theory - Cyberspace primarily deals with the virtual interactions that are possible by using networked computers. Critical Theory analysizes how these interactions effect communication, discourse, and the development of ideas.
Differences Between Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, and 'Theory Itself' - Presented by Professor John Lye, Department of English, Brock University.
Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS) - A refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers.
Essential Comparative Literature and Theory, The (ÉCLAT) - Directory of links mainatined by the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Figures of Speech - Definitions of figures of speech from early modern literature.

Hassan, Ihab - Writer, critic, eduactor. His major works of criticism that engage the idea of the postemodern - The Dismemberment of Orpheus, Paracriticisms, The Right Promethean Fire, The Postmodern Turn, and many essays - have had an enormous impact on literary culture and theory. The following table is taken from a part of The Dismemberment of Orpheus that was reprinted in Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1998). It has helped many students understand the differences, both concrete and abstract, between modernism and postmodernism.

Modernism	Postmodernism
Romanticism/Symbolism	Pataphysics/Dadaism
Form (conjunctive, closed)	Antiform (disjunctive, open)
Purpose	Play
Design	Chance
Hierarchy	Anarchy
Mastery/Logos	Exhaustion/Silence
Art Object / Finished Work	Process/Performance/Happening
Distance	Participation
Creation/Totalization	Decreation/Deconstruction
Synthesis	Antithesis
Presence	Absence
Centering	Dispersal
Genre/Boundary	Text/Intertext
Semantics	Rhetoric
Paradigm	Syntagm
Hypotaxis	Parataxis
Metaphor	Metonymy
Selection	Combination
Root/Depth	Rhizome/Surface
Interpretation/Reading	Against Interpretation / Misreading
Signified	Signifier
Lisible (Readerly)	Scriptable (Writerly)
Narrative / Grande Histoire	Anti-narrative / Petit Histoire
Master Code	Idiolect
Symptom	Desire
Type	Mutant
Genital/Phallic	Polymorphous/Androgynous
Paranoia	Schizophrenia
Origin / Cause	Difference-Differance / Trace
God the Father	The Holy Ghost
Metaphysics	Irony
Determinacy	Indeterminacy
Transcendence	Immanence

Hugh Kenner Papers - Correspondence, offprints, clippings, typescripts, galley proofs, photographs, tearsheets, drawings, computer printouts and program sheets, holograph notes and drafts, notebooks, and academic papers document Hugh Kenner's career as critic, scholar, and educator from 1943 to 1994.
Imaginative Literature and Social Change - Examines the relationship between literature and social change.
ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection - Directory of critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, The - The Guide consists of 226 alphabetically arranged entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Without a subscription, only limited access is provided.
Literary Resources on the Net - Links maintained by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, specializing in English literature.
LitLine (Illinois Arts Council) - Consists of noncommercial literary presses and magazines, literary centers, writers conferences and festivals, writers who publish with noncommercial literary presses and magazines, service organizations which support the community, and independent bookstores which are the chief purveyors of noncommercial press books.
- Journals - A comprehensive list of literary journals with an online presence, from Agni to ZYZZYVA. We pride ourselves on having the most extensive and refined yet avant-garde collection of such links on the web.
- Illinois Literary Network (ILN): A site devoted to literary links specifically for the state of Illinois.
- Illinois Writer's Directory (IWD): Information found here can be used to invite participating authors to readings, workshops, or to learn more about the authors living within the state.
- Miscellaneous Links - Includes links to searchable directories for writers, bookstores, publishers, presses, literary agents, funding, workshops and tools for writers.
- Online Journals - An extensive list of online literary journals with content only to be found on the web. Hypertext, radical prose, experimental poetry, and good old narrative.
- Organizations - A listing of organizations doing their part to keep independent literature alive. Includes conferences, events, distributors and literary centers.
- Presses - Small press publishers on the web - places to find independently published literature from novels to chapbooks, from the postmodern to more traditional flavors.
Modern American Poetry (MAPS) - A living, breathing conversation between hundreds of poets, scholars, and readers, constantly growing and presented in an eminently clear and usable way. Extraordinary in its depth and breadth, and a one-of-a-kind resource for teaching modern American poetry, MAPS provides a single clearinghouse for some of the best criticism on the best poets of our time.
Novelguide.com - Novel resource guide and literary analysis.
Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) - A research and reference guide maintained by Paul P. Reuben, Ph.D.
Poems, Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres - A work-in-progress website dedicated to the theory of literary genres.
Resources for Comparative Literature and Literary Theory - Vanderbilt University directory of resources includes these sections: electronic discussion groups, journals, professional organizations, institutions, electronic texts, master sites, and selected sites of interest to comparatists.
Romantic Circles - A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
Rorotoko - Exclusive authors’ interviews on some of the most fascinating books coming out of some of the finest nonfiction and scholarly presses.
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric - A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.
Victorian Web - everything Victorian.

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