OWL = Grade Saver

OWL is the most helpful online resource I've ever used. I'm excited to be able to use it more not only in this class but in my other English classes this semester.  A brief exploration of the Online Writing Lab clearly reveals the high quality of free assistance that is available.  In this course, I'll be able to use a section of it that I not yet accessed and taken advantage of yet.

The Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism section is fascinating.  The most valuable resource I can re-post here is the different critical lenses that I'll use throughout the semester. Those are contained below along with their chronological uses.

• Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present)
• Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present)
• Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism(1930s-present)
• Marxist Criticism (1930s-present)
• Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present)
• Structuralism/Semiotics (1920s-present)
• Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)
• New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)
• Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)
• Feminist Criticism (1960s-present)
• Gender/Queer Studies (1970s-present)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/01/