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Critical Theory – II [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 421
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Modernism
(Fowler pp.151-52; Baldick  p.140)
Structuralism  (pp.1-7)*
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)
Psychoanalytic Criticism
(pp.63-73)*
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (Section V: “The Material and Sources of Dreams”  pp.201-04)
 
Feminisms
(pp.82-90, 94-108)*
Elaine Showalter’s “A Literature of Their Own”   (Rice and Waugh  pp.100-02)
 
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: 
  1. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism  by Pramod K. Nayar, Pearson, 2010
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Peter Childs: Modernism (Critical Idiom Series).
  2. Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson : A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Longman, 1963.
  3. Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh: Modern Literary Theory, Edwin Arnold, 1993.
  4. V. S. Seturaman(eds): Contemporary Criticism, Macmillan, 1989
  5. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin (eds): The Empire Writes Back, Routledge, 2002.
  6. Bijoy Kumar Das: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Atlantic, 2004.
  7. M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Orient Longman, 2006.
 

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