E-Texts

Web Resources:

• Contemporary Literary Theory: features some useful essays on differences among literary criticism, literary theory, and theory itself. In addition, there are introductory essays on problems and issues with structuralism, reader-response theory, and poststructuralism.
  
• Critical Reading: An Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism: well-designed and easy-to-use site.
  
• Postmodernism and Its Critics: examines basic premises and key works, contrasts modern and postmodern thinking, and includes a bibliography and links to related sites.
  
• Continental Philosophy: extensive site provides information about critical theory, cultural theory, deconstruction, existentialism, feminist theory, Marxism, post-colonialism, post-modern thought, semiotics, structuralism, and other theoretical approaches.
  
• Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought: many links to individual theorists, contemporary general critical theory and philosophy resources, and links to online readings.
  
• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples:  short, concise definitions of rhetorical terms are provided along with examples.
  
• Postmodern Culture: scholarly journal presents an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary culture, theory, and the humanities.
  
• Other Voices: The (e)Journal of Cultural Criticism: essays, interviews, round-table discussions, lecture transcriptions, multimedia projects, translations, and reviews devoted to cultural criticism in the arts and humanities.

    (the above links were taken from "Literary Theory". by Julie Roberson, Debora Richey, and Mona Kratzert. C&RL News March 2002)

Resources in the Eisenhower Library:

• The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory and criticism.    General Reference PN 81 .J554 1994
  
• Criticism and literary theory 1890 to the present.     D-Level Blue Labels PN 81 .B294 1996
  
• A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory.     General Reference PN 41.C83 1998
  
• Encyclopedia of literary critics and criticism.     General Reference PN 75.E53 E53 1999
  
• A glossary of contemporary literary theory.     General Reference PN 44.5.H37 2000
  
• Literary criticism : an introduction to theory and practice.    D-Level Blue Labels PN 81.B666 1999
  
• Literary theory : an introduction, by Terry Eagleton.    D-Level Blue Labels PN 94 .E2 1996
  
• Postmodern literary theory : an anthology.     D-Level Blue Labels PN98.P67 P67 2000
  
• A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory.      General Reference PN 94 .S45 1997