Masters
IGNOU Insight: American Novel | MEG-11 | An IGNOU Course with 2500+ Practice Questions, Mock Tests, Videos, Notes & more
₹499.00₹1,000.00
IGNOU Insight: American Novel | MEG-11 | An IGNOU Course with 2500+ Practice Questions, Mock Tests, Videos, Notes & more
What you'll learn
The Beginnings
The Man, The Milieu, And The Moment - I
The Last of the Mohicans: An Analysis
Perspectives on the Novel - I
Perspectives on the Novel - II
The Literary Context
Theodore Dreiser: The Man and The Writer
Sister Carrie: A Critical Summary
Sister Carrie: A Critical Study of the Major Themes
The Man, The Milieu, And The Moment - II
The Plot and The Self-Improving Hero
The Great Gatsby and Fable, Symbol and Allegory
The Great Gatsby and the Narrative Technique
Critics and Criticism: An Overview
American Fiction in 1920s and 1930s
The Novel in The South
Light in August: Structure and Narrative Strategies
Characterisation and Critical Approaches
Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature
The Great Tradition
The Outsider
The Indelible Impact
Henry Miller’s Works: Black Spring
Critical Approaches
The Author and The Plot
The Main Themes and Characters
The Language in The Catcher in The Rye
Critical Interpretations
The Postwar American Novel
The Experimental Novel
The Floating Opera: An Analysis of Text
Philosophic Formulations and The Farce of Reason
From Modernity to Post Modernity
Native American Literature
Native American Fiction
The Making of Momaday
House Made of Dawn: An Analysis
Critical Perspectives
The Women, The Moment and The Milieu - I
The Women, The Moment and The Milieu - II
The Color Purple and its Structure
Analysis of Celie’s Letters - I
Analysis of Celie’s Letters - II
Themes Emerging from Celie’s Letters
The Beginnings
The Man, The Milieu, And The Moment - I
The Last of the Mohicans: An Analysis
Perspectives on the Novel - I
Perspectives on the Novel - II
The Literary Context
Theodore Dreiser: The Man and The Writer
Sister Carrie: A Critical Summary
Sister Carrie: A Critical Study of the Major Themes
The Man, The Milieu, And The Moment - II
The Plot and The Self-Improving Hero
The Great Gatsby and Fable, Symbol and Allegory
The Great Gatsby and the Narrative Technique
Critics and Criticism: An Overview
American Fiction in 1920s and 1930s
The Novel in The South
Light in August: Structure and Narrative Strategies
Characterisation and Critical Approaches
Sexual Revolution in Modern American Literature
The Great Tradition
The Outsider
The Indelible Impact
Henry Miller’s Works: Black Spring
Critical Approaches
The Author and The Plot
The Main Themes and Characters
The Language in The Catcher in The Rye
Critical Interpretations
The Postwar American Novel
The Experimental Novel
The Floating Opera: An Analysis of Text
Philosophic Formulations and The Farce of Reason
From Modernity to Post Modernity
Native American Literature
Native American Fiction
The Making of Momaday
House Made of Dawn: An Analysis
Critical Perspectives
The Women, The Moment and The Milieu - I
The Women, The Moment and The Milieu - II
The Color Purple and its Structure
Analysis of Celie’s Letters - I
Analysis of Celie’s Letters - II
Themes Emerging from Celie’s Letters
Masters
IGNOU Insight: Literary Criticism and Theory | MEG-05 | An IGNOU Course with 2500+ Practice Questions, Mock Tests, Videos, Notes & more
₹499.00₹1,000.00
IGNOU Insight: Literary Criticism and Theory | MEG-05 | An IGNOU Course with 2500+ Practice Questions, Mock Tests, Videos, Notes & more
What you'll learn
Literature, Criticism and Theory
Overview of Western Critical Thought
Twentieth Century Developments
The Function of Criticism
Indian Aesthetics
Resistance to Theory/How to Read a Reader
Features of Classical Criticism
Plato on Imitation and Art
Aristotle’s Theory of Imitation
Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-I
Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-II
Criticism as Dialogue
Romanticism
Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
P.B.Shelley: A Defiance of Poetry
I.A.Richards
T.S.Eliot
F.R.Leavis
John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks
W.K.Wimsatt
Conclusion
Marxism and Literature
Society and History: Marxist View
Representing and Critiquing SOCIETY: Superstructures
Commitment in Literature
Autonomy in Literature
Literature and Ideology
Features of Feminist Criticism
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Elaine Showalter: ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’
Feminist Concerns in India Today
Roots: New Criticism and Structuralism
Beginning Deconstruction
Implications
Deconstructing Poetry
Deconstructing Drama
Re-Assessing Deconstruction
Some Basic Issues
Postmodernism: The Basics
Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
Postcolonial Theory: Said, Spivak and Bhabha
Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism
Literary Criticism and Theory: A Summing Up
Literature, Criticism and Theory
Overview of Western Critical Thought
Twentieth Century Developments
The Function of Criticism
Indian Aesthetics
Resistance to Theory/How to Read a Reader
Features of Classical Criticism
Plato on Imitation and Art
Aristotle’s Theory of Imitation
Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-I
Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-II
Criticism as Dialogue
Romanticism
Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
P.B.Shelley: A Defiance of Poetry
I.A.Richards
T.S.Eliot
F.R.Leavis
John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks
W.K.Wimsatt
Conclusion
Marxism and Literature
Society and History: Marxist View
Representing and Critiquing SOCIETY: Superstructures
Commitment in Literature
Autonomy in Literature
Literature and Ideology
Features of Feminist Criticism
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Elaine Showalter: ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’
Feminist Concerns in India Today
Roots: New Criticism and Structuralism
Beginning Deconstruction
Implications
Deconstructing Poetry
Deconstructing Drama
Re-Assessing Deconstruction
Some Basic Issues
Postmodernism: The Basics
Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
Postcolonial Theory: Said, Spivak and Bhabha
Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism
Literary Criticism and Theory: A Summing Up