Critical Theory – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 421
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
12.00
Unit I: 
  • The New Criticism       (pp. 166 – 176 from Patricia Waugh)
12.00
Unit II: 
  • 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.pdf)
12.00
Unit III: 
  • 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)

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
  • Psychoanalytic Criticism (pp. 63-73)*
  • Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (Section V: “The Material and Sources of Dreams”  pp. 201-04)
12.00
Unit V: 
  • 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.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017