Theory and Criticism Course Resources
Dr. Ramirez

Below you will find a list of web sites relevant to the theorists we are studying.  Rather than considering these sites as ends unto themselves, you should use them as a point of departure for your own inquiries.  The web presents breath, but not necessarily depth.  To evaluate a theorist, you must formulate your own notes and ask your own questions.  I recommend, in addition, that you use online library resources (such as the Literature Resource Center and the Oxford English Dictioary Online)
If you find more sites relevant to the authors, please email me at ramirez@csusb.edu

A few good places to begin your hypertextual adventure are

Donna Kain's Poet/Critic Web Site
http://www.clarkson.edu/~dkain/poetcrit.html
(Among others, she reviews the work of Aristotle, Plato, Dryden, Saussure, and Frye)

Felluga's Introductory Guide to Critical Theory
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/

and Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2718

For definitions of literary terms, see:
http://www2.gasou.edu/humanities/terms.htm

http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/awtech/lexicon.html


Kenneth Duva Burke and "Equipment for Living"
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Speech/rccs/theory03.htm

Ferdinand de Saussure, ideas from Course in General Linguistics (outline)

The Swiss and The Sign.
http://www.martnet.com/~lexicon/origins.html


Carl Jung
Jungian Concepts
http://amanda.deegan.org/jung.html

Psychological Definitions
http://www.astrosight.com/psych_definitions.htm


Northrop Frye "The Archetypes of Literature"(1951)
http://www.citadel.edu/faculty/leonard/Frye.html

Jean O'Grady's Site on Northrop Frye
http://www.jeanogrady.ca/


Claude Levi-Strauss "The Structural Study of Myth" and Other Structuralist Ideas
http://www.colorado.edu/English/engl2010mk/levistrauss.2001.htm

Orientalism Overview
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Orientalism.html

Edward Said’s “Orientalism revisited”  Keith Windschuttle
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/jan99/said.htm