Literary Criticism and Critical Theory

Paper Code: 
ENG 321
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO 61. Formulate the history of criticism and literary theories

CO 62. Identify the textual application of critical theories

CO 63. Construct application-based knowledge of key ideas and debates in modern literary theory

CO 64. Compare and contrast diverse literary criticisms, theories in application

CO 65. Constructs enhanced understanding towards critical appreciation, and critical thinking and analytical skills

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Report-writing, Seminar-presentation

Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce

 

10.00

Aristotle

Poetics

 
 
8.00
T. S. Eliot
 
Tradition and the Individual Talent
14.00

Poststructuralism: Roland Barthes

 (pp. 72-76 from M.A.R. Habib)

 

Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida

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

 
 

 

12.00

Western Feminism:  Feminisms         

 (pp.82-90, 94-108 from Pramod K. Nayar)

 

Indian Feminism: A People Without a History? 

(pp. 1-10 & 23 from Jasbir Jain)

 
 

 

16.00

Psychoanalytic Criticism (pp. 63-73 from Pramod K. Nayar)

 

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

 
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

Enright and Chickera eds. English Critical Texts.OUP, 1997.

Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.

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.

 

Suggested Readings:

Das, Bijoy and J.M. Mohanty. Literary Criticism: A Reading. OUP, 1989.

Olsen, Flemming. Eliot’s Objective Correlative: Tradition or Individual Talent: Contributions to the History of a Topos.Susan Academic Press, 2014.

Wilfred L. Guerin, etal: A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. OUP, 1999.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXcr4DDEw8Q (Aristotle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHB77gPhVyg (Eliot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQx-FYPQDus (Barthes)

 

Journals:

Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory

Literary Theory and Criticism

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023