Critical Theory - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 421
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
Unit I

Modernism ((Fowler pp.151-52; Baldick  p.140)

Structuralism  (pp.1-7)*

Unit II: 
Unit II

Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida

(Selden et al.  pp.174-77)

Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences”

(from Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass  pp.6-7)

Unit III: 
Unit III

Psychoanalytic Criticism

(pp.63-73)*

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

 

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Feminisms

(pp.82-90, 94-108)*

Elaine Showalter’s “A Literature of Their Own”   (Rice and Waugh  pp.100-02)

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

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Peter Childs: Modernism (Critical Idiom Series).
  • Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson : A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Longman, 1963.
  • Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh: Modern Literary Theory, Edwin Arnold, 1993.
  • V. S. Seturaman(eds): Contemporary Criticism, Macmillan, 1989
  • Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin (eds): The Empire Writes Back, Routledge, 2002.
  • Bijoy Kumar Das: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Atlantic, 2004.
  • M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Orient Longman, 2006.

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015