Grade 12 Major Term Paper: Literary Criticism

General Sources

• Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism (Purdue OWL)

• Intro to Literary Theory (presentation by Prestwick House)

• Literary Criticisms by IPL2

• Literary Theory - 25 online lectures by Yale professor Paul H. Fry [scroll down the list to find "Literature"]

• Voice of the Shuttle

• Introduction to Modern Literary Theory

• Women's Studies: Feminism

• Psychoanalytical Criticism (Freud & Jung) (Purdue OWL)

• Marxist Criticism (Purdue OWL)

• Queen Theory (U of Illinois)

• Plato and Aristotle (Bhavnagar Univ.)

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Book Resources Fifth Business

Mud and Magic Shows: Robertson Davies's Fifth Business

819.354 DAV MON

Fifth Business: Notes 819.354 DAV

Conversations with Robertson Davies 819.854 DAV CON

Moral Vision in the Canadian Novel 819.300 9 DOO

Canadian Writers and Their Works vol. 6 819.3009 CAN v.6

A Reader's Guide to the Canadian Novel 2nd ed. 819.3009 MOS

 

Book Resources The Wars

Introducing Timothy Findley's The Wars 819.354 FIN YOR

Canadian Writers and Their Works vol. 12 819.3009 CAN

Present Tense: A Critical Anthology 819.3009 PRE

A Reader's Guide to the Canadian Novel 2nd ed. 819.3009 MOS

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Post-Colonialism

• Definition of Postcolonial Criticism

• Postcolonialism theory

• Europe's Colonial Expansion 1820-1939: The British empire, Trading Routes and Construction (animated map with sound)

• Critical Insights: Things Fall Apart- e-book  Password required

• Opening of the Bandung Conference by President Sukamo of Indonedia, April 18, 1955 (Modern History Sourcebook)