Critical Theory – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 321
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

: To introduce the students with literary criticism and theories and also to familiarize them to textual application of a theory.

14.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Aristotle

Poetics

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Samuel Johnson

Preface to Shakespeare

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

William Wordsworth

Preface to Lyrical Ballads

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Matthew Arnold

The Study of Poetry

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

T. S. Eliot

Tradition and Individual Talent

Source Books: 

Enright and Chickera eds. English Critical Texts Oxford: OUP, 1997.Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Das, Bijoy and J.M. Mohanty. Literary Criticism: A Reading. New Delhi: OUP, 1989. Print.

Olsen, Flemming. Eliot’s Objective Correlative: Tradition or Individual Talent: Contributions to the History of a Topos.U.K: Susan Academic Press, 2014. Print.

Wilfred L. Guerin, etal: A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. London: OUP, 1999. Print.

Academic Year: 
2017-2018