Critical Theory

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ENG 143
J.C. Ransom’s “Criticism, Inc.” (Sections IV & V)
The New Criticism                                                             
(pp. 166 – 176 from Patricia Waugh)
Poststructuralism: Roland Barthes                                  
(pp. 72-76 from M.A.R. Habib)
J. Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences”
Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida                                     
Extract from “Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary  Interpretation”                              
(from lib. kshs.kh.edu.tw/lib/journals/journals-94/P145.pdf)
(from Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass  pp.6-7)
Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of Their Own                                        
(pp.100-02 from Rice and Waugh)  
Feminisms  : Western Feminism                                                       
(pp.82-90, 94-108 from Pramod K. Nayar)
Indian Feminism: A People Without a History?                                                
(pp. 1-10 & 23 from Jasbir Jain)
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams 
(Section V: “The Material and Sources of Dreams”  pp. 201-04)
Psychoanalytic Criticism (pp. 63-73 and 75-78 from Pramod K. Nayar)
 
Edward W. Said’s Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient          
Postcolonial Theory                                                                    
(pp.153-72 & 175-78 from Pramod K. Nayar)
(Section II from “Introduction”  pp. 4-9)   
Homi K. Bhabha’s “Of  Mimicry and Man : The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse ”  from The Location of Culture 
(pp. 85-92)
Source Books: 
  1. Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York : Routledge, 1994. Print.  
  2. Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. New Delhi: Sage Pub., 2011. Print.
  3. Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Pub., 2008. Print.
  4. Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism. New Delhi:  Pearson, 2010. Print.
  5. Waugh, Patricia.  Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 2006. Print.
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. Eds. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.
  2. Childs, Peter. Modernism: A New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2007. Print.
  3. Das, Bijoy Kumar. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2004. Print.
  4. Nagarajan, M.S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006. Print.
  5. Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory. London: Hodder Education, 1993. Print.
  6. Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Longman, 1963. Print.
  7. Seturaman, V.S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism. New York: Macmillan, 1989. Print.