Critical Theory – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 321
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
14.00
Unit I: 
Aristotle

Poetics

12.00
Unit II: 
Samuel Johnson

Preface to Shakespeare

11.00
Unit III: 
William Wordsworth

Preface to Lyrical Ballads

12.00
Unit IV: 
Matthew Arnold

The Study of Poetry

11.00
Unit V: 
T. S. Eliot

Tradition and Individual Talent

Source Books: 

Source Book:

•        Enright and Chickera : English Critical Texts (OUP)

Suggested Readings:

  • Literary Criticism : A Reading – B. Das
  • Wilfred L. Guerin et al: A Handbook of Critical Approaches to   Literature (OUP, 1999)
  • Eliot’s Objective Correlative: Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos: Flemming Olsen
Academic Year: 
2018-2019