Literary Theory

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• Purdue Online Writing Lab- Literary Criticism 

  The Purdue Online Writing Lab guide to literary criticism, with a suggestion of secondary texts, as well as definitions of critical schools.

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 

  A peer reviewed academic resource, founded as a non-profit in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.

Yale University Open Course: Intro to Theory

Introduction to Theory of Literature Sessions include: Discussions of new criticism, russian formalism, semiotics and structuralism, linguistics, deconstruction, lectures on Freud and Lacan, an examination of Postmodernism, and New Historicism, and is a survey of the major trends in twentieth century literary theory.  Taught by Dr. Paul H. Fry