Critical Theory

Paper Code: 
ENG 143

 Unit I

Excerpts from J.C. Ransom’s essay “Criticism, Inc.” 

The Essay “ The New Criticism”  (from Patricia Waugh, pp. 166-76)

Unit II

Roland Barthes                                  (from M.A.R. Habib, pp. 72-76)

Excerpt from J. Derrida’s Essay : “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences” (from Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass  pp.6-7)      

Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida      

Extract from “Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary Interpretation”            (from lib. kshs.kh.edu.tw/lib/journals/journals- 94/P145.pdf)

 Unit III

Excerpt from Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of Their Own (from Rice and Waugh, pp.100-02)   

Feminisms:  Western Feminism   (from Pramod K. Nayar, pp.82-90, 94-108)

Indian Feminism: A People without a History?(from Jasbir Jain pp. 1-10 &23)

Unit IV

Excerpt from Sigmund Freud’s Section V: “The Material and Sources of Dreams” ( from Interpretation of Dreams, pp. 201-04) 

Psychoanalytic Criticism (from Pramod K. Nayar, pp. 63-73 and 75-78)

Unit V

   Excerpt from  Edward W. Said “Section II “Introduction” 

(from Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, pp. 4-9)          

Salman Rushdie’s essay (from Imaginary Homelands: Essays in  Criticism)

Postcolonial Theory (from Pramod K. Nayar, pp. 153-72 and 175-78)

Source Books: 

Source Books:

   

Derrida, Jacques. Writing & Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Routledge, 1978. 

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

 Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. Sage, 2011. 

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

Ransom, John Crowe. The World’s Body. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965. 

Rushdie, Salman . Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism 1981-1991. Granta Books, 1992.

Waugh, Patricia.  Literary Theory and Criticism. OUP, 2006. 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

 Recommended List:

 

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

 

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

 

Das, Bijoy Kumar. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Atlantic, 2004. 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Seturaman, V.S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism. Macmillan, 1989. 

Academic Year: 
2018-2019