Critical Theory

Paper Code: 
ENG 143
Max. Marks: 
100
Unit I: 
  • Excerpts from J.C. Ransom’s essay “Criticism, Inc.” (Separate sheets)
  • The Essay “ The New Criticism”      (from Patricia Waugh, pp. 168-176)
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)      (Separate sheets)
  • Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida     (Separate sheets)  

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

                                                   

  •  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: 
  • Derrida, Jacques. Writing & Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Great Britain :    Routledge, 1978. Print 
  • Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Pub., 2008. Print.
  • Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. New Delhi: Sage Pub., 2011. Print.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism. New  Delhi:  Pearson, 2010. Print.
  • Ransom, John Crowe. The World’s Body. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.Print.
  • Rushdie, Salman . Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism 1981-1991. London: Granta Books, 1992.Print .
  • Waugh, Patricia.  Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 2006. Print.
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: 
2016-2017