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Critical Theory – II
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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:
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism by Pramod K. Nayar, Pearson, 2010
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Peter Childs: Modernism (Critical Idiom Series).
Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson : A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, Longman, 1963.
Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh: Modern Literary Theory, Edwin Arnold, 1993.
V. S. Seturaman(eds): Contemporary Criticism, Macmillan, 1989
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin (eds): The Empire Writes Back, Routledge, 2002.
Bijoy Kumar Das: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Atlantic, 2004.
M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Orient Longman, 2006.
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