MEG - 5 : Literary Criticism and Theory syllabus outline

  

Block 1 - General Introduction     

                What is Literary Criticism and its Function

                What is Literary Theory

Block 2 - Classical Criticism

                Plato and Aristotle

Block 3 - Romantic Criticism

                Romanticism and its Features

                Preface to Lyrical Ballads- Wordsworth

                Biographia Literaria - S.T Coleridge

                Defense of Poetry - PB Shelley

Block 4 - New Criticism

                IA Richards, TS Eliot, FR Leavis, JC Ransom and Cleanth Brooks

Block 5 - Marxist Criticism

Block 6 - Feminist Theories

                A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

                Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness- Elaine Showalter

                A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft

              The Second sex - Simone de Beauvoir

Block 7 - Deconstruction

Block 8 - Contemporary Literary Theory

                Postmodernism

                Psychoanalysis - Freud & Lacan

                Postcolonial Theory - Edward Said, Spivak and Bhabha

                Cultural Studies 

                New Historicism