Critical Theory – I

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

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: 
2015-2016