Critical+Theories


 * __Recommended Books:__

__Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents__ by Deborah Appleman __Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide__ by Lois Tyson

__Websites:__** [] - This site has definitions and essays on various critical approaches including feminist criticism, the new historicism, psychoanalytic criticism, reader-response criticism, structuralism, marxist criticism, the new criticism, formalism, and post-colonial criticism.

[] - This site lists various critical/theoretical approaches with definitions, key terms, and suggested websites and books.