Links on Critical and Cultural Theory
Resource Pages
On-Line Journals and Essays Collections
- Illuminations, an on-line journal and resource page focusing principally on the Frankfurt School
- CTheory, an International Journal of Theory, Technology and Culture
- Click here to connect to Representations, an on-line version of the journal edited by Greenblatt focussing principally on cultural poetics and cultural materialism.
Selected Essays
Significant Figures in Cultural Theory
Theodor Adorno
- The Hall of Thinkers Theodor Adorno Page
- A Page of Adorno-related links.
- Critical Cultural Theory: Adorno.
- Three excerpts from Adorno's writing.
- The Adorno page at [www.theory.org.uk].
Giorgio Agamben
- A review, by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, of The Idea of Prose.
- Agambeniana, a bibliography of Agamben's work.
- "Du témoignage," a review (in French), by Frédéric Grolleau, of Ce qui reste d'Auschwitz.
Paul de Man
- Click here for an extensive bibliography of work by and on Paul de Man.
- Click here for a publisher's blurb on a book on De Man by Derrida.
- Click here for "Deconstruction is not a Memory," an excerpt of an interview with Derrida about De Man (with images).
Jacques Derrida
- "The Shadow Archive: From Light to Cinder," a paper by Akira Mizuta Lippit on Derrida, Japan and the secret, with reference to Blanchot.
- "Time, Space, Deconstruction, Plagues of Cats, Apocalypse, etc.," an interview with Prof. David Wood of the University of Warwick.
- Click here for "Writing in Reserve: Deconstruction on the Net, Jacques Derrida Online" (an excellent web page with texts by Derrida as well as bibliographies and links).
- Click here for a page on Derrida, with clear explanations of his philosophical work, mounted by Stanford University for their "Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts."
- Click here for a set of "Derridean Links."
- Click here for JACQUES DERRIDA: A READING GUIDE.
- Click here for a page outlining basic aspects of Derridean philosophy and deconstruction.
- Click here for "Introduction to Jacques Derrida" by Roger Geertz Gonzalez (with good links).
Movements, Methods, Disciplines
New Historicism
- Click here for "The Professor of Disenchantment (Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism)," by Mitchell Stephens.
- Click here for "Beyond New Historicism: Marlowe's unnatural histories and the melancholy properties of the stage," an essay on New Historicist and cultural materialist readings of Christopher Marlowe's drama, by Drew Milne.
- Click here for "New Historicism Explained."
- Click here for a page explaining New Historicism and cultural poetics.
- Click here for a brief definition of New Historicism.
- Click here for "Reading With An Eye on Discourse," an essay-assignment page (from another class) discussing New Historicism.
Psychoanalysis
- Click here for A BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THOUGHT by Brent Dean Robbins.
- Click here for introductions to various types of psychoanalytic thought.
- Click here for pages of links on Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zizek.
- Click here for a large set of links on Jacques Lacan.
- Click here for Jacques Lacan's Seminar on The Purloined Letter.
- Click here for "Psychoanalysis and Film Study in the 1990s" by Krin Gabbard.