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Critical Theory – II
Unit 1
The New Criticism (pp. 166 – 176 from Patricia Waugh)
Unit 2
Poststructuralism: Roland Barthes (pp. 72-76 from M.A.R. Habib)
Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida Extract from “Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary Interpretation”
(from lib. kshs.kh.edu.tw/lib/journals/journals-94/P145
Unit 3
Western Feminism: Feminisms (pp.82-90, 94-108 from Pramod K. Nayar)
Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of Their Own (pp.100-02 from Rice and Waugh)
Indian Feminism: A People Without a History? (pp. 1-10 & 23 from Jasbir Jain)
Unit 4
Psychoanalytic Criticism (pp. 63-73)*
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (Section V: “The Material and Sources of Dreams” pp. 201-04)
Unit 5
Postcolonial Theory (pp.153-72 & 175-78)*
Edward W. Said’s Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (Section II from “Introduction” pp. 4-9)
Source Books:
Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. New Delhi: Sage Pub., 2011.
Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism. New Delhi: Pearson, 2010.
Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
Suggested Readings:
- Childs, Peter. Modernism: A New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2007.
- Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Longman, 1963.
- Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory. London: Hodder Education,1993.
- Seturaman, V.S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. Eds. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge, 2002.
- Das, Bijoy Kumar. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2004.
- Nagarajan, M.S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006.