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Literary Criticism and Critical Theory
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
Aristotle
Poetics
T. S. Eliot
Tradition and the Individual Talent
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)
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)
Psychoanalytic Criticism (pp. 63-73 from Pramod K. Nayar)
Postcolonial Theory (pp.153-72 & 175-78 from Pramod K. Nayar)
Enright and Chickera eds. English Critical Texts.OUP, 1997.
Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism. Pearson, 2010.
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