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Literary Criticism and Critical Theory
The Course will enable the students to recognise the principles of critical theory in the shaping of literature, trace the historical development of literary theory and its role in English studies and develop an enhanced ability to read, contextualize, and compare primary material by different literary theorists.
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.
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.
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
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