Unit I
Excerpts from J.C. Ransom’s essay “Criticism, Inc.”
The Essay “ The New Criticism” (from Patricia Waugh, pp. 166-76)
Unit II
Roland Barthes (from M.A.R. Habib, pp. 72-76)
Excerpt from J. Derrida’s Essay : “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences” (from Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass pp.6-7)
Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida
Extract from “Derrida, Deconstruction and Literary Interpretation” (from lib. kshs.kh.edu.tw/lib/journals/journals- 94/P145.pdf)
Unit III
Excerpt from Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of Their Own (from Rice and Waugh, pp.100-02)
Feminisms: Western Feminism (from Pramod K. Nayar, pp.82-90, 94-108)
Indian Feminism: A People without a History?(from Jasbir Jain pp. 1-10 &23)
Unit IV
Excerpt from Sigmund Freud’s Section V: “The Material and Sources of Dreams” ( from Interpretation of Dreams, pp. 201-04)
Psychoanalytic Criticism (from Pramod K. Nayar, pp. 63-73 and 75-78)
Unit V
Excerpt from Edward W. Said “Section II “Introduction”
(from Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, pp. 4-9)
Salman Rushdie’s essay (from Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism)
Postcolonial Theory (from Pramod K. Nayar, pp. 153-72 and 175-78)
Source Books:
Derrida, Jacques. Writing & Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Routledge, 1978.
Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell. 2008.
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.
Ransom, John Crowe. The World’s Body. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.
Rushdie, Salman . Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism 1981-1991. Granta Books, 1992.
Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism. OUP, 2006.
Recommended List:
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. Eds. The Empire Writes Back. Routledge, 2002.
Childs, Peter. Modernism: A New Critical Idiom. Routledge, 2007.
Das, Bijoy Kumar. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Atlantic, 2004.
Nagarajan, M.S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Orient Longman, 2006.
Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory. Hodder Education, 1993.
Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Longman, 1963.
Seturaman, V.S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism. Macmillan, 1989.
Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/critical-theory-4
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2018-2019