New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
William & Mary
Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet
Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...
Library of Congress
Loc: Main Reading Room: Literary Criticism
This is an annotated list of reference websites for literary criticism.
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Literary Criticism
This site, part of the E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore, includes links to more than fifty different sites with literary criticism by and about Edgar Allan Poe.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Criticism
This lesson focuses on how to write a literary criticism, the different theories and approaches to literary criticism, and their standard format.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing About Literature: Finding Literary Criticism
This article focuses on how to find literary criticism including scholarly journals, citations from other works, a list of useful links to find sources, and TAMU libraries' website.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Literary Criticism
Wikipedia offers a detailed history of literary criticism from medieval time up to its current state.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
The Feminist Theory Website at Virginia Tech University provides a list of all types of feminist literary criticism and theory.
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University: The Role of Literary Criticism
This site has information about the role of literary criticism thoroughout time.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Critical Theory: Interpretive Strategies
Defines various critical approaches in brief. Click the Critical Theory link at the bottom of the page for more detail.
Other
Marxist Literary Criticism: Brief Guide
Brief overview and guide to Marxist criticism. Easy to digest and fairly comprehensive page.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Introduction to Practical Criticism
An in-depth learning module in literary criticism. Students read and listen to a poem by Sir Thomas Wyatt and an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and analyze their structure and meaning. Includes multiple-choice quizzes.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Elizabethan Criticism
A discussion of Thomas Campion's literary criticism from the Elizabethan period. From the Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Review Redux: Literary Criticism Through Reception Moments
Literature takes on a life of its own as students take a hands-on approach to exploring A Raisin in the Sun for cultural and historical context.
University of Pennsylvania
"Black Boys and Native Sons" Literary Criticism
This critical essay first appeared in DISSENT in 1963. It looks at the work of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Practical Criticism
A general introduction to literary criticism, this website provides teachers and students with idea about how to derive meaning from poetry through personal interpretation.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Literature: Reader Response Criticism
This lesson focuses on reader-response literary criticism including the purpose of reader response, the structure of a reader-response essay, how to criticize with examples, and an example of a reader-response essay using "The Secret...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto Libraries: Glossary of Literary Theory
A glossary of definitions for terms related to literary theory. Click each word in the glossary list and a definition with examples appears.
Other
University of Texas at Arlington: Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website
Online collection of articles and excerpts about critical theory from contemporary writers.
Other
Univ. Of Mississippi: Critical Approaches to Literature
Here are nine common critical approaches to the study of literature based on X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Literature: An Introductionto Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.
Other
Kristi Siegel, ph.d.: Introduction Modern Literary Theory
This site provides an overview of literary terms and critical theories, compiled by a professor of English who teaches at the university level.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Models for Literary Analysis
Explore these links to see models for literary analysis including a model analysis of poetry. "Types of Papers: Literary Analysis" from Roane State OWL and "Deep Desires that Transcend Time" by Alyssa Ensminger, from Roane State OWL....
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
TES Global
Tes: Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is slide show lesson of a cross-century critical analysis of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. It includes context and literary criticism from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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