Literary Criticism
(high school)

Background Materials: Formalist and Structuralist Ideas - http://130.179.92.25/Arnason_DE/Backmaterials.html - Notes on formalist and structuralist ideas.
Contemporary Literary Theory - http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/index.html - Material on general theory, structuralism, reader-response, poststructuralism, and critical theories.
Undergraduate Guide to Critical Theory - http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~felluga/theory2.html - As its title suggests, this is a clear, basic introduction to different schools of theory. The descriptions move from abstract to specific by relating theory to two of Spencer's poems, which are always available onscreen.
Kipling A Brief Biography - http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/kipling/rkbio2.html - A biography of Rudyard Kipling is presented with links to his works, his political context, and literary criticism
Online Literary Criticism Collection - http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/ - a collection of online evaluative or explanatory writings about works of British and American literature
Literary Index : Internet Resources in Literature - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html - "an overview and a review of the major collections of websites of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature"
Literary Resources on the Net - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ - a comprehensive, categorized list of hundreds of literary resources to support the curriculum
Authors - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/authors.html - a literary site with "pointers to individual author guides or other cumulative documents that deal with specific writers"
NYPL On-Lion for Kids - http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/ - a great set of links to literary and Internet links put together by the New York Public Library

Jeffrey Branzburg
Supervisor of Instructional Technology
Lawrence Public Schools
Lawrence, NY
jbranzburg@lawrence.k12.ny.us