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| critical lenses |
Glossaries on Literary Theory/Criticism
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University
of Toronto: Glossary of Literary Theory
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| Tom
Fish: Glossary of literary theory terms
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A
Glossary of Literary Terms
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Glossary
of Poetic Terms
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LitWiki:
Literary Terms
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Norton
Literature Online: Glossary of Literary Terms
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General descriptions of a range of different literary
theories and criticism |
Deborah
Appleman: Literary Theories: A Sampling of Critical Lenses
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Melissa
Owen: A Teaching Guide to Awakening to Literary Theory high school
course
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Wikipedia:
Critical Theory
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Wikipedia:
Literary Criticism
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The
Literary Encyclopedia
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The
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Literary Theory
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The
Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism by author/texts
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Voices
of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
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Bedford/St.Martin’s
Press: VirtuLit: Critical Approaches
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Annenberg/CPB:
Pat Mora and James Welch: Reader Response Theory
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| Dino
Felluga: An Introductory Guide to Literary Theory
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Jack
Lynch: Literary Resources: Theory
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John
Lye: Contemporary Literary Theory
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Barry
Laga: Critical Reading
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| Kristi
Siegel: Modern Literary Theories
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Skylar
Burris [different critical approaches]
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TCG:
Literary Theory and Literary Criticism
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New
York Review of Books: Literary Criticism
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Approaches
to Reading and Interpretation
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Specialized
Approaches to Reading and Writing about Literature
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Timelines
of Major Critical Theories in the U.S.
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ÉCLAT:
The Essential Comparative Literature And Theory Site |
Guide
to Philosophy on the Internet |
Illuminations:
The Critical Theory Website |
Literary
Theory: A Literary Theory Project |
Literary
Theory and Criticism: A Bibliography |
Modern
Literary Theory |
The
Society for Critical Exchange |
Allen
Carey-Webb: Literary Theory and English Teaching
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The
Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliographies |
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Webquests: Applying critical perspectives |
Different
Perspectives in Literary Criticism
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Discerning
Literary Criticism: Applied to Frankenstein
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Applying
five different critical perspectives to Heart of Darkness
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Applying
different perspectives to “The Necklace”
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The
Last Moments of Lady MacBeth
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Formalist/Structuralist/Genre Criticism |
| Formalist
and Structuralist Ideas
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John
Lye: Structuralist criticism
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How
to Use Formalist Tools to Analyze Literature
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I.
A. Richards |
The
I. A. Richards Web Resource |
Poems,
Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres |
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New Criticism |
Wikipedia:
New Criticism
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Johns
Hopkins Guide: New Criticism
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Contemporary
Critical Theory: New Criticism
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New
Criticism and Poetry Analysis
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Poetry
Magic: New Criticism
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New
Criticism Explained
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Webquest: New
Criticism
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Reader-response Criticism |
Johns
Hopkins Guide: Reader Response Theory and Criticism
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David
Miall/Don Kuiken Empirical research on literary reading
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John
Lye: Positions of Reader-response Criticism
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David
Chandler [reader-oriented research articles]
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Russell
Hunt’s articles on reader response as a social process
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Stanley
Fish’s theory of reader response
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Read/Write/Think
Lesson: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections
to Literature
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NCCREST:
Reader Response [essays/studies]
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READER
[journal]
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Deconstruction |
Wikipedia:
Deconstruction
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Johns
Hopkins Guide: Deconstruction
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Willy
Maley, Ten ways of thinking about deconstruction
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John
Lye: Deconstruction: Some Assumptions
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How
To Do Deconstruction
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Deconstruction:
What is it?
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Deconstruction
on the Net: Jacques Derrida
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“My
Papa’s Waltz:” A Deconstructionist Reading
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Poststructuralism |
Wikipedia:
Poststructuralism
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Site
of Convergence: Autobiography & Post-Structuralism |
Mary
Klages, Postructuralism [University
of Colorado]
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| Michael
Peters: Postructuralism and Education
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Johns
Hopkins Guide: Poststructuralist Feminisms
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Poetry
Magic: Postmodernist Poems
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Chalkface
Press [with NCTE, publishes high-school literature texts with
poststructuralist critical analyses]
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Postmodernism |
Defining
Postmodernism
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Jay
Lemke: What is Postmodernism?
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Larry
Solomon: What is Postmodernism?
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Postmodernism
and Its Critics
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The
PoMo Page
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Clive
Beck: Postmodernism, Pedagogy, and Philosophy of Education
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Mary
Klages, Postmodernism [University
of Colorado]
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Dino
Felluga [postmodern theory ]
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Douglas
Kellner [postmodern theory]
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Martin
Ryder: Postmodern theorists
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Popculture.org
[lots of theoretical essays on postmodernism]
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The
journal, Postmodern Culture |
Jean
Baudrillard links
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Critical discourse analysis |
Brett
Dellinger, Critical Discourse Analysis
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Sue
McGregor: Critical Discourse Analysis: A Primer
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Johns
Hopkins Guide: Discourse Analysis
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Teun
Van Dijk, Racist Discourses
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Norman
Fairclough [critical discourse analysis papers, particularly
on the application of business discourses to education]
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Foucault
[theory.org site]
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A
Genealogy of Foucault |
The
Foucault Site
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Allen
Luke [discussion of critical discourse analysis]
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Dialogic/Bakhtin |
Bakhtin
Centre |
Norton
Literature Online: Dialogism
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John
Lye: Bakhtin on language
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Bakhtin
and Critical Theory
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Feminist Criticism/Queer Theory |
Wikipedia:
Feminist Theory
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lots of links on gender and the media on the University
of Iowa Communications Department site
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Voices
of the Shuttle [many sites related to feminist/queer theory]
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Genders
Online Journal
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Feminist.com
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University
of Minnesota: Voices from the Gap [women writers of color]
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University
of Pennsylvania: A Celebration of Women’s Writers
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Online
Fiction by Women Writers
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Dino
Felluga [gender and sexuality]
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Gender
role models in popular culture
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Masculinity
and academic discourses
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Judith
Butler’s theories on gender
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Module
on Judith Butler’s theories
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bell
hooks links
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Susan
Brownmiller
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Germaine
Greer
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Adrienne
Rich
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George
Landow: Queer Theory
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The
Men’s Bibliography
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Masculinities
and Representations
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Media,
Gender, and Identity
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Theory.org:
Queer Theory Resources
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Webquest: Women
Artists: Who Are They and Why haven't They Been Included in Art
History?
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Webquest: Catherine
Called Birdy
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Marxist Criticism |
Wikipedia:
Marxist theory
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Contemporary
Critical Theory: Marxist Criticism
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Marxist
Internet Archive
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Marxism
Made Simple
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People
Like Us: PBS documentary on class differences
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Dino
Felluga: An introduction to Marxism
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Greig
Henderson and Christopher Brown: Glossary of Marxist criticism
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Extensive
material on Marx
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Rod
Strickland [online course in Marxist Culture Theory]
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Webquest: Effects
of the Industrial Revolution
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R.
J. Rummel: Class and literature
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Working-class
Whites in literature
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Webquest: Does
social rank matter?
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New Historicism |
Wikipedia:
New Historicism
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Johns
Hopkins Guide: New Historicism
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New
Historicism
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Dino
Felluga: New Historicism
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New
Historicism Explained
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Stephen
Greenblatt and New Historicism
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Webquest: historical
aspects of MacBeth
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Psychoanalytic criticism |
| Wikipedia:
Psychoanalytic criticism
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Dino
Felluga: Introduction to Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalytic
Criticism
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Poetry
Magic: Application of psychoanalytic criticism to a poem
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Norman
Holland: The Mind and the Book
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John
Lye: Psychoanalysis and Literature
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John
Lye: Terms and Concepts
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The
Freud Web |
Analysis
of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”
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Johns
Hopkins Guide: The Post-Lacanians
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jacques lacan/lacan
dot com |
Lacanian
Links |
American
Imago
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Semiotic Criticism |
Sites
of Significance for Semiotics |
Click
here for definitions of key terms used in semiotics
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Click here
For a chart illustrating the different concepts of semiotic analysis
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Click here
For an introduction to semiotics
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What
is Semiotics?
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Martin
Ryder: Semiotic theorists: Pierce, Eco, Barthes, Lacan, Sebeok
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A
semiotic analysis of magazine ads for men’s fragrances, Alexander
Clare
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Archetypal/Myth Criticism |
Johns
Hopkins Guide: Archetypal Theory and Criticism
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Johns
Hopkins Guide: Myth Theory and Criticism
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Archetypal
Criticism and Joseph Campbell
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William
Guerin: Mythological and Archetypal Criticism
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Jungian
Literary Theory
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Key
concepts from Northrop Frye’s critical theories
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The
Archetypal Hero
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Cymbeline:
An Archetypal Fairy Tale
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Webquest: Finding
Forgotten Folktales
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Webquest: Women
in World Mythology
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| Webquest:
Bridging Cultures through Stories
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Webquest: The
Mythology Project
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Webquest:
Create a Heroic Character
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Hypermedia/Hypertext Theory |
Hypermedia
theory
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George
Landow: Hypertext theory
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George
Landow: The Victorian Web
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Eastgate
Systems: HypertextNow
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Hyperizons
[journal]
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Hypertext
Breakdown [analyzing a hypertext]
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Cultural-studies/Anthropological Criticism |
Johns
Hopkins Guide: Cultural/Anthropological Criticism
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| University
of Iowa: Cultural Studies Resources
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University
of Iowa: Cultural Studies Theorists
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Cultural
Studies Central
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Pop
Cultures: Cultural Theory Critics
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Kiss
of the Panopticon: Cultural studies
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University
of Texas: Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website
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University of Alabama students’ web pages: Anthropological
theories
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Critical
Approaches to Culture, Communications + Hypermedia |
Cultural
Theory |
Manchester
Institute for Popular Culture Website |
Theory
and Culture |
Would
You Like Sprinkles With That? — SWIRL: Theory at Southern
Oregon: Your Guide to Post-Millenial Paradigms |
www.theory.org.uk |
CTHEORY |
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Postcolonial criticism |
Edward
Said, On Orientalism
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Edward
Said, The Myth of “The Clash of Civilizations”
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Institute
of Postcolonial Studies
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Emory
University: Postcolonial Studies
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| George
Landow: The Postcolonial Web
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Postcolonial
critics
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Jouvert:
A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
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Webquest: The
British Empire and the Legacy of Colonialism
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For abstracts of the following books on postcolonial theory,
see the The
Untimely Past
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