Literary Criticism Online Resources

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Introductory Sites
Contemporary Literary Theory Definitions by Professor John Lye
Introductory Guide to Critical Theory by Dino Felluga
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Postmodernism and Its Critics
SWIRL: Your Guide to Post-Millennial Paradigms
theory.org

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References
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism & Philology
M.C. Escher Official Website
Internet Movie Database
Edvard Munch, "The Scream"
Alan Sokal's Famous Hoax Article
Published in Social Text, a prestigious journal, Sokal fooled
the editors into publishing his parody of academic rhetoric.
He later claimed responsibility to the embarrassment of the editors of
Social Text.
UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource (Bibliography)

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Theorists
Critical Theory: Critics
Eisenbaum & "skaz" (Formalism)
Freud Museum, London
Sigmund Freud, Conflict & Culture by Library of Congress
Sigmund Freud, Time Magazine's Top 100 Influential People (several articles)
Sigmund Freud, Wikipedia entry
(Be careful of Wikipedia's entries; they are not always accurate)
Who's Who in Theory by SWIRL

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Critical Approaches
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory & Postmodern Thought
Feminist Theory by Women's Studies Resources
Genres: Post WWII American Literature & Culture Database (Postmodernism)
Postmodern Thinking by pHilosopHy
Sites of Significance for Semiotics

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Megasites (Lists of Links)
Continental Philosophy
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
Literary Resources - Theory by Jack Lynch
Voice of the Shuttle - Literary Theory

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Journals
Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice
Other Voices: The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism
Postmodern Culture

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Literary Texts
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" (Poem)
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - Entire E-Text
T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Background on Eliot's "Prufrock" (Wikipedia)
T.S. Eliot reads "Love Song" (Salon.com Audio)
William Butler Yeats speaks on T.S. Eliot (BBC Audio)
"Madame X" & her Original State (Sargent's painting)
Gogol's "Overcoat," The Middle Stage (Blog Entry)
Gogol's "Overcoat," Synopsis
Ezra Pound's Comments on "In a Station of the Metro"
Hamlet's Soliloquy (Act III Scene 1)
George La Tour's "Penitent Magdalene" (painting 1638-1643)
Compare to its reproduction in The Little Mermaid

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