MODERN LITERARY THEORIES
Objectives
This course is offered.
1] To help the students understand in some detail some seminal theories
in Modern Literary Criticism.
2] To develop in the students a critical outlook towards literature.
3] To acquaint the students with the changes taking place in modern
critical theories.
4] To introduce the students to the basic concepts of modern literary
theories.
5] To help the students apply some modern critical theories to the
texts which are prescribed.
SEMESTER-III: ENG-231
Texts Prescribed
1] Mikhail Bakhtin : From the prehistory of Novelistic Discourse.
2] Terry Eagleton : Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism.
3] Paul de Man : The Resistance to Theory
SEMESTER-IV: ENG-241
Texts Prescribed
4] M.H. Abrams : The Deconstructive Angel
5] Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak : Feminism and Critical Theory
6] Juliet Mitchell : Femininity, narrative and psychoanalysis.
7] Wolfgang Iser: The Reading Process: a Phenomenological approach.
The prescribed textbook is -
David Lodge[ed] with Nigelwood :
Modern Criticism and TheoryA Reader New Delhi, Pearson Education.
First Indian Reprint, 2003.
Bibliography
1] Christopher Norris, Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of
Aesthetic Ideology [1988]
2] William Ray, Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to
Deconstruction [1984]
3] Jonathan Culler, Framing the Sign : Criticism and its Institutions
[1988]
4] Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature,
Deconstruction [1981]
5] Benita Parry, ëProblems in Current Theories of Colonial
Discourseà in the Oxford Literary Review [1987]
6] K.K. Ruthven, Feminist Literary Studies : An Introduction [1984]
7] Alice A. Jardine, Gynesis : Configurations of Woman and
Modernity [1985]
8] Chris Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory
[1987]
9] Linda Hutcheon, The Politics of Postmodernism [1989]
10] Bernand Bergonzi, The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century
Literature [1986]
11] Robert C. Holub, Reception Theory : A Critical Introduction [1984]
12] Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin:The Dialogical Principle [1984]
13] Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation
of a Poetics [1990]
14] David Lodge, After Baktin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism [1990]
15] David Lodge, 20th Century Modern Criticism [1988]
16] Seturaman, Contemporary Criticism : An Anthology [MacMillian]
[1989]
17] Christopher Norris, Deconstruction : Theory and Practice London
Methuen [1982]
18] Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory : An Introduction Oxford; Basil
Blackwell [1983]
19] Wimsatt and Brooks, Literary Criticism : A Short History, New
Delhi, Oxford [1967]
20] Raman Selden : A ReaderÃs Guide to Contemporary Literary
Theory, Brighton, The Harvester Press [1985]
Format of Question Paper
Semester III: ENG-231
Que. 1 : Broad questions [A] or [B] [16]
Que. 2
:
on all the three prescribed essays.
[16]
Que. 3
:
All texts to be covered.
[16]
Que. 4
:
[16]
Que. 5 : Short Notes on all prescribed essays. [16]
( TWO out of FOUR )
Semester IV: ENG-241
Que. 1 : Broad questions [A] or [B] [16]
Que. 2
:
on all the four prescribed essays.
[16]
Que. 3
:
All texts to be covered.
[16]
Que. 4
:
[16]
Que. 5
:
Short Notes on all prescribed essays.
[16]
( TWO out of FOUR )
PERIOD STUDIES THROUGH LITERARY GENRES:
FICTION
A] Objectives: This course is offered -
1] To acquaint the student with the major novelists in literature through a
study of the representative novels.
2] To acquaint the student with the growth and development of the novel
especially the English Novel.
3] To develop in the student the ability to interpret, analyse and evaluate
fiction in the historical perspective.
4] To enable the students to read a novel closely with reference to the
thematic pattern, the mood, the treatment, the technique, the
characterization, the structure, the authorial comment, point of view,
setting, the narrative, the plot construction, the social and cultural
aspects and other stylistic features and peculiarities of the prescribed
novels.
5] To enable the students to compare and contrast works of fiction
illustrative of different modes of literary history and various literary
trends.
6] To help the students learn and develop language proficiency, both
written and oral.
SEMESTER-III: ENG-232
A. Background of 18th and 19th Century Novel
B. Texts Prescribed
1] Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
2] Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
3] Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
SEMESTER-IV: ENG-242
A. Background of 20th century Novel
B. Texts Prescribed
4] Aldous Huxley : The Brave New World
5] Albert Camus : The Outsider
6] Doris Lessing : The Grass is Singing.
Bibliography
1] Walter Allen : The English Novel. Hammondsworth. Penguin
Books 1957.
2] Anthony Burgess: The Novel Now. London. 1967.
3] F.R.Leavis : The Great Tradition. Hammondsworth Penguin Books
1962.
4] Ian Watt : The Rise of the Novel.
5] E.M. Forster : Aspects of the Novel.
6] Diana Neill : A Short History of the English Novel.
7] E.A. Baker : History of the English Novel.
8] George Saintsbury : A History of the English Novel.
9] R.W. Church : The Growth of the English Novel.
10] W.L. Cross : The Development of the English Novel.
11] W.A. Brockington : Oliver Goldsmith - The Citizen of the World.
Blackie and Sons.
12] David Cecil : The Victorian Novelists.
13] Hugh Walker : English Satire and Satirists S. Chand and Co. New
Delhi.
14] James Sutherland : English Satire Cambridge.
15] Arnold Kettle : The English Novel [Three Volumes]
16] F.R. Karl : Contemporary English Novel.
17] Albert Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus.
18] Gerald Bullett : Modern English Fiction.
19] Henry James : The Art of Fiction.
20] Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction.
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Objectives
This course is offered.
1] To help the students understand in some detail some seminal theories
in Modern Literary Criticism.
2] To develop in the students a critical outlook towards literature.
3] To acquaint the students with the changes taking place in modern
critical theories.
4] To introduce the students to the basic concepts of modern literary
theories.
5] To help the students apply some modern critical theories to the
texts which are prescribed.
SEMESTER-III: ENG-231
Texts Prescribed
1] Mikhail Bakhtin : From the prehistory of Novelistic Discourse.
2] Terry Eagleton : Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism.
3] Paul de Man : The Resistance to Theory
SEMESTER-IV: ENG-241
Texts Prescribed
4] M.H. Abrams : The Deconstructive Angel
5] Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak : Feminism and Critical Theory
6] Juliet Mitchell : Femininity, narrative and psychoanalysis.
7] Wolfgang Iser: The Reading Process: a Phenomenological approach.
The prescribed textbook is -
David Lodge[ed] with Nigelwood :
Modern Criticism and TheoryA Reader New Delhi, Pearson Education.
First Indian Reprint, 2003.
Bibliography
1] Christopher Norris, Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of
Aesthetic Ideology [1988]
2] William Ray, Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to
Deconstruction [1984]
3] Jonathan Culler, Framing the Sign : Criticism and its Institutions
[1988]
4] Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature,
Deconstruction [1981]
5] Benita Parry, ëProblems in Current Theories of Colonial
Discourseà in the Oxford Literary Review [1987]
6] K.K. Ruthven, Feminist Literary Studies : An Introduction [1984]
7] Alice A. Jardine, Gynesis : Configurations of Woman and
Modernity [1985]
8] Chris Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory
[1987]
9] Linda Hutcheon, The Politics of Postmodernism [1989]
10] Bernand Bergonzi, The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century
Literature [1986]
11] Robert C. Holub, Reception Theory : A Critical Introduction [1984]
12] Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin:The Dialogical Principle [1984]
13] Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation
of a Poetics [1990]
14] David Lodge, After Baktin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism [1990]
15] David Lodge, 20th Century Modern Criticism [1988]
16] Seturaman, Contemporary Criticism : An Anthology [MacMillian]
[1989]
17] Christopher Norris, Deconstruction : Theory and Practice London
Methuen [1982]
18] Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory : An Introduction Oxford; Basil
Blackwell [1983]
19] Wimsatt and Brooks, Literary Criticism : A Short History, New
Delhi, Oxford [1967]
20] Raman Selden : A ReaderÃs Guide to Contemporary Literary
Theory, Brighton, The Harvester Press [1985]
Format of Question Paper
Semester III: ENG-231
Que. 1 : Broad questions [A] or [B] [16]
Que. 2
:
on all the three prescribed essays.
[16]
Que. 3
:
All texts to be covered.
[16]
Que. 4
:
[16]
Que. 5 : Short Notes on all prescribed essays. [16]
( TWO out of FOUR )
Semester IV: ENG-241
Que. 1 : Broad questions [A] or [B] [16]
Que. 2
:
on all the four prescribed essays.
[16]
Que. 3
:
All texts to be covered.
[16]
Que. 4
:
[16]
Que. 5
:
Short Notes on all prescribed essays.
[16]
( TWO out of FOUR )
PERIOD STUDIES THROUGH LITERARY GENRES:
FICTION
A] Objectives: This course is offered -
1] To acquaint the student with the major novelists in literature through a
study of the representative novels.
2] To acquaint the student with the growth and development of the novel
especially the English Novel.
3] To develop in the student the ability to interpret, analyse and evaluate
fiction in the historical perspective.
4] To enable the students to read a novel closely with reference to the
thematic pattern, the mood, the treatment, the technique, the
characterization, the structure, the authorial comment, point of view,
setting, the narrative, the plot construction, the social and cultural
aspects and other stylistic features and peculiarities of the prescribed
novels.
5] To enable the students to compare and contrast works of fiction
illustrative of different modes of literary history and various literary
trends.
6] To help the students learn and develop language proficiency, both
written and oral.
SEMESTER-III: ENG-232
A. Background of 18th and 19th Century Novel
B. Texts Prescribed
1] Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
2] Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
3] Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
SEMESTER-IV: ENG-242
A. Background of 20th century Novel
B. Texts Prescribed
4] Aldous Huxley : The Brave New World
5] Albert Camus : The Outsider
6] Doris Lessing : The Grass is Singing.
Bibliography
1] Walter Allen : The English Novel. Hammondsworth. Penguin
Books 1957.
2] Anthony Burgess: The Novel Now. London. 1967.
3] F.R.Leavis : The Great Tradition. Hammondsworth Penguin Books
1962.
4] Ian Watt : The Rise of the Novel.
5] E.M. Forster : Aspects of the Novel.
6] Diana Neill : A Short History of the English Novel.
7] E.A. Baker : History of the English Novel.
8] George Saintsbury : A History of the English Novel.
9] R.W. Church : The Growth of the English Novel.
10] W.L. Cross : The Development of the English Novel.
11] W.A. Brockington : Oliver Goldsmith - The Citizen of the World.
Blackie and Sons.
12] David Cecil : The Victorian Novelists.
13] Hugh Walker : English Satire and Satirists S. Chand and Co. New
Delhi.
14] James Sutherland : English Satire Cambridge.
15] Arnold Kettle : The English Novel [Three Volumes]
16] F.R. Karl : Contemporary English Novel.
17] Albert Camus : The Myth of Sisyphus.
18] Gerald Bullett : Modern English Fiction.
19] Henry James : The Art of Fiction.
20] Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction.
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