CRITICAL THEORY

Paper Code: 
ENG 143

 

                                                                            Unit 1

  J.C. Ransom’s “Criticism, Inc.” (Sections IV & V)

  The New Criticism                                                             (pp. 166 – 176 from Patricia Waugh)

 

Unit 2

  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)

 

Unit 3

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)

 

Unit 4

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)

 

Unit 5

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: 

Source Books:

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York : Routledge, 1994. Print.  

 

Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. New Delhi: Sage Pub., 2011. Print.

 

Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Pub., 2008. Print.

 

Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism. New Delhi:  Pearson, 2010. Print.

 

Waugh, Patricia.  Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 2006. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. Eds. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge, 2002. Print.

 

Childs, Peter. Modernism: A New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2007. Print.

 

Das, Bijoy Kumar. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2004. Print.

 

Nagarajan, M.S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006. Print.

 

Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory. London: Hodder Education, 1993. Print.

 

Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Longman, 1963. Print.

 

Seturaman, V.S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism. New York: Macmillan, 1989. Print.  

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016