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This website created by Henry Targowski and Charly Jungbauer offers an abundance of information for cyberculture, English Literature, new media, hypertext, postmodernism, critical theory, avant garde and popular theory (et al.) students.

a cultural theory and media literacy web site maintained by Douglas Bicket. The website will be useful to English studies students specialising in media, modern fiction, feminist studies, theory of literature and narrative, postmodernism, marxism or experimental and internet fiction. This site offers an introduction and indepth information on theorists related to any of the above fields. Some of the well-known writers include: Barthes, Baudrillard, Chomsky, Derrida, Deleuze, Eagleton, Fiske, Foucault, Gibson, Gramsci, Landow, Lyotard, Plato and Turkle to name but a few. This website also provides links to assorted background information ranging in topics from artificial intelligence, Blade Runner, Judith Butler, cyberculture, cyborgs, discourse analysis, existentialism, Fordism, feminist theory, hyperreality and much much more

This is a bibliography of literary studies, criticism and philology. It consists of c. 5,000 text files (290 Mb of text) listing over 250,000 items (books, book chapters, articles, films, websites, etc.), with a main focus on English-speaking authors and criticism or literary theory written in English, although there are many listings on linguistics, cultural studies, discourse analysis, and other philological subjects. It includes basic bibliographical information on several thousand authors, critical schools, literary and linguistic concepts, and other subjects.

Militant esthetix Website is written and edited by Dr Kristi Siegel of Mary Mount College. The site aims to introduce undergraduates to the key terms and ideas of the literary theories that have revolutionised literary studies, particularly in the last 30 years. The site contains entries on every major theory: deconstruction; New Historicism; Lacanian psychoanalysis; New Criticism; Russian Formalism etc. Siegel provides a sketch of the theory - including basic concepts and main thinkers. She then lists the basic texts in the field, as well as providing a bibliography of secondary reading. Links to relevant sites are also provided. This text-based site is fast loading and easy to navigate.

a free to access database that covers gender, literary and feminist theory abstracts. It is maintained by the University of Cologne; its geographical focus is Anglo-American.

This Web site, edited by Dr Jan Christoph Meister of Hamburg University, aims to be a focal point for international scholars working in the field of narrative theory. The site is divided into a number of sections: projects - links to narratology projects throughout the world; a contact list of narratology researchers; information about joining the site's mail list; links to various bibliographies relating to the field; an archive of articles; links to other narratology sites.

The Aesthetic Realism Online Library is the definitive source of publications about the philosophy founded by poet, critic, and educator Eli Siegel.

This Web site contains a doctoral thesis on second-person narrative. Dennis Schofield's text is entitled: 'The Second Person: A Point of View? The Function of the Second-Person Pronoun in Narrative Prose Fiction'. The work explores how analyses of specifically second-person storytelling might challenge the (Cartesian) assumptions of much narrative theory.