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Literary Theory Resources

Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
This page offers a quick and easy review of some of the most important theoretical concepts. This page includes different approaches such as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, New Historicism, Feminism and so on.

Critical Theory

If you are looking for a brief explanation of the different criticisms used by Literary Scholars, then this page provides excellent summaries and a selected bibliography.

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Literary Vocabulary

The Literary Encyclopedia

Literary Dictionary

Dictionary of literary Terms

Writing Resources

Doyle Online Writing Lab: Writing resources for students

Critical Response links

The Critical Response

How to Write a Critical Response Essay

Writing Critical Response Papers: Hints and Examples

A Critical Response Results from Interacting with Ideas

Close Reading links

Guidelines for writing a "close reading"

How to Do a Close Reading

Doyle Online Writing Lab

Steps for Close Reading or Explication de texte:Patterns, polarities, problems, paradigm, puzzles, perception