Subject Code: HS7L017 Subject Name: Literary and Critical Theory L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3

Pre-Requisite(s): None

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:
  1. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffins, editors. The Empire Writes Back. Routledge,1989.
  2. Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
  3. Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference. U of Chicago P,1978.
  4. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
  5. Fredric Jameson. Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature. Princeton University Press, 1974.
  6. Lacan, Jacques. The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
  7. Linda Hutcheon. The Politics of Post Modernism. Routledge, 2000.
  8. Lodge, David. editor. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Longman, 1972.
  9. Lodge, David and Nigel Wood, editors. Modern Criticism and Theory. Longman, 1988.
  10. Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan, editors. Literary Theory: An Anthology. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.