Critical Theory: Getting Started

In conjunction with the Wellek Library Lectures, these extensive bibliographies compile the publications and scholarship of each lecturer. The list includes lecturers such scholars as Derrida, Butler, Spivak, and Jameson.

Links to sites of scholars associated with the Critical Theory Project of the Frankfurt School--Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm, Habermas, Horkheimer and Marcuse.

With links such as "Literary Theory," "Cultural Studies," "Cyberculture," and "Science, Technology, and Culture," this Web site provides a good starting point to other free resources on the net (many by scholars) for many Critical Theory topics.

Covers all aspects of critical theory from globalization and race studies, to queer theory and feminism, as well as topics such as the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, gender studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and sociopolitical critical theory. Explains complex theoretical discourses, such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and postmodernism. Features biographies of important figures in the field.

From Plato to the present day, the Guide provides lengthy in-depth entries on criticism and theoretical research. At the end of each article, a primary and secondary bibliography appears that points you to more in-depth articles/books.

This series contains good and brief information about writers associated with Critical Theory. Information about a writer includes "Influences/ Biography/Theory and Criticism."
This is a physical book shelved in the Langson Library.

Contains lengthy definitions on scholars, movements and terms associated with cultural and critical theory. This is a physical book shelved in the Langson Library.

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Located in Special Collections of the Langson Library, the "Critical Theory Archive encompasses a variety of archival, published, and online resources in support of the University’s programs in critical theory."

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The UCI homepage for Culture & Theory PhD program.