Literary Theory Pages: 

• Contemporary Literary Theory designed and posted John Lye, with his original materials and links to other discussions and theory texts as well as other theory resource pages. 
• Critical Reading: A Guide Designed for first year college students by John Lye of Brock University,  this is a  guide to analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction. For poetry, includes sections on genre, speaker, structure, setting, and imagery. For fiction, topics include plot, character, setting, figurative language, world-view. Also has a section on writing an analytical essay. See also the pages on The Problem of Meaning in Literature and Ideology: a Brief Guide.
• Critical Theory links by authors like Harold Bloom, Terry Eagleton, Susan Gubar, Sandra Gilbert, Stanley Fish and Elaine Showalter and many others is easy to use and follow.

• SWIRL is a guide to modern theory with a particularly good and beautifully visual section on timelines

• Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory

• On-line literary Criticism from the Internet Public Library-organised by author, century and nationality.

• University of Toronto English Library (UTEL) Criticism and Theory ...Resource page hosted by the University of Toronto. Has an essay on the Postmodern by Linda Hutcheon, a glossary of literary theory

• David Miall's and Don Kuiken's Reader Response site

•  Russ Hunt: On Literary Reading (new address)

•  Introductory  Guide to Literary Theory by Dino Felluga, with a game-the only literary criticism game I have found

• Introduction to Modern Literary Theory  by Kristi Siegel

•  Mary Klages' Modern Criticial Thought

•  Literature and Social Change Tony Christini

• Bakhtin Links at the Bakhtin Center (U. of Sheffield)

•  Culture Machine: Generating Research in Theory and Culture (on-line journal)

•  Critical Approaches to Culture, Communications and Hypermedia by Ron Burnett, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

• Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory includes links to readings in literary criticism, gender matters, cyberpunk,  science fiction, anime and more, from George Landow at Brown.

• A Brief History of Modernism is actually Post Modernism , a lively, easy to read text,  scanned in, page by page, by Jim Finnigan the University of Illinois.

• Detailed discussion of metafiction and historiographic metafiction.

• Modern American Poetry  with links to 161 poets, including Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Tillie Olsen. e.e cummings,  and most of the American writers on the course.  comprehensive and interesting.  Established and hosted by Department of English, University of Illinois

• George Landow's Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English  provides some helpful historical context and critical commentary. (The Postimperial Literature in English part of this larger site links to information on UK authors.)
• The Imperial Archive, a "site dedicated to the study of Literature, Imperialism, Postcolonialism" and authored by students working on the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies in the School of English at the Queen's University of Belfast.
• An Introduction to Postcolonial Studies at the site for Postcolonial Studies at Emory.
• comparison of Victorian and Modernist ideas and a comparison of Modernism/postmodernism
• ASAIL  the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures with oline, searchable issues.

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness."     - Lemony Snicket