Formalistic Criticism (aka New Criticism)

• Arnason, David.  "The New Criticism." Course page. 2002.

• Hedges, Warren.  "New Criticism Explained."  Course page. 1997.

• Searle, Leroy.  "New Criticism."  In The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.  528-34.

• Willingham, John.  "The New Criticism: Then and Now."  In Contemporary Literary Theory.  Ed. Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts, 1989.

• Guerin, Wilfred L., et al.  A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature.  3rd ed.  New York: Oxford UP, 1992. (Good for all the theories we will cover in the course.)

Psychological Criticism

• Psychoanalytic Criticism: Overview/Comparison

• Undergraduate Introduction to Critical Theory, Dino Felluga.

Reader Response Criticism

Deconstructive Criticism

Historical, Postcolonial, and Historical Studies

Marxist Criticism

Cultural Criticism

Feminist Criticism, Post-Feminism, and Queer Theory