Gingrich Library: ENG 101/102: Literary Theory

Print Resources

A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature - by Wilfred Guerin; Earle Labor; Lee Morgan; Jeanne Reesman; John Willingham
Call Number: 801.95 H236G5 2005

Ooffers a valuable combination of theory and practice, introducing and applying the most useful contemporary approaches. Thoroughly updated and revised for this edition, the text presents a variety of ways to interpret a work,ranging from historical/biographical and moral/philosophical to feminisms and cultural studies.

Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide - by Lois Tyson
Call Number: 801.95 T994c

This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism.

Comparative Literature by Susan Bassnett
Call Number: 809.04 B321c

ISBN: 0631167048

Publication Date: 1993-11-01
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent B. Leitch; William E. Cain (Editor); Laurie Finke (Editor); Barbara Johnson (Editor); John McGowan (Editor); Jeffrey J. Williams (Editor)
Call Number: 801.95 N889L

ISBN: 0393974294

Publication Date: 2001-06-19

Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to ériture féminine, and from the social construction of gender to the machinery of academic superstardom, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism promises to become the standard anthology in its field.

Suggested Websites

Purdue University's OWL site on Literary Theory
A very basic way of thinking about literary theory is that these ideas act as different lenses critics use to view and talk about art, literature, and even culture. These different lenses allow critics to consider works of art based on certain assumptions within that school of theory. The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important.
Purdue OWL Writing in Literature
Literature and Literary Criticism: Literary Theory (DeSales University)
An introduction to resources that provide information on authors, literary works, and literary criticism.
IPL2 Online Literary Criticism Collection
The ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.