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Critical Theory – II [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 421
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4

Unit 1

The New Criticism       (pp. 166 – 176 from Patricia Waugh)

 

                                                                           Unit 2

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

Unit 3

Western Feminism:  Feminisms           (pp.82-90, 94-108 from Pramod K. Nayar)

Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of Their Own   (pp.100-02 from Rice and Waugh) 

Indian Feminism: A People Without  a History?  (pp. 1-10 & 23 from Jasbir Jain)

 

                                                                            Unit 4

Psychoanalytic Criticism (pp. 63-73)*

Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (Section V: “The Material and Sources of Dreams”  pp. 201-04)

 

Unit 5

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: 

Source Books:

 

Jain, Jasbir. Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency. New Delhi: Sage Pub., 2011.

 

Habib, M.A.R. Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell Pub., 2008.

 

Nayar, Pramod K. Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: From Structuralism to Ecocriticism. New Delhi:  Pearson, 2010.

 

Waugh, Patricia.  Literary Theory and Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 2006.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

  • Childs, Peter. Modernism: A New Critical Idiom. London: Routledge, 2007.
  • Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Longman, 1963.
  •  Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Ed. Modern Literary Theory. London: Hodder Education,1993.
  • Seturaman, V.S. Ed. Contemporary Criticism. New York: Macmillan, 1989.  
  • Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. Eds. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Das, Bijoy Kumar. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2004.
  •  Nagarajan, M.S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006.

 

 

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2015-2016 [2]

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