Syllbus:
New Criticism and Russian Formalism- structure/content-the structural analysis of literature-
literary (poetic) use of language and the ‘practical’ use of language- ‘literariness’ of poetic
language- scientific approach to literary interpretation-Marxism: Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels- Marxism as a conflict theory- base and superstructure- Antonio Gramsci-Coercion and
consent- Hegemony-Louis Althusser-Marxian Aesthetics- Three waves of Feminism- Historical
Overview-Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, bell hooks-Gender Studies-
Judith Butler- Psychoanalysis- Sigmund Freud- Juliet Mitchell- Deconstruction and
Postmodernism-Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard- Postcolonialism-Edward Said -
Gayatri Spivak- trace recent theoretical trends.
Text/Reference Books:
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffins, editors. The Empire Writes Back. Routledge,1989.
- Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
- Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference. U of Chicago P,1978.
- Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
- Fredric Jameson. Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature. Princeton University Press, 1974.
- Lacan, Jacques. The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
- Linda Hutcheon. The Politics of Post Modernism. Routledge, 2000.
- Lodge, David. editor. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Longman, 1972.
- Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, editors. Modern Criticism and Theory. Longman, 1988.
- Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan, editors. Literary Theory: An Anthology. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
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