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MEG-05: Literary Criticism and Theory (Online Course for IGNOU)
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
Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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
