Literary Critisism

The endeavour of this course is to familiarise the under-graduate student with the diverse critical practices from Romanticism in the nineteenth century and the tenets of T.S.Eliot, through New Criticism in the twentieth century , moving ahead with Feminism from its inception to the third world and gender expressions in the twentieth century. The intention is to help students understand the theories, critically assess works of art and apply them in literary works. For this purpose, the module has been divided into segments, where the literary essay or book is divided into sub-divisions so that students can comprehend the theories and the related study materials with ease.

Week 1 Introduction to Romanticism   Week 2 Preface to Lyrical Ballads- William Wordsworth- Section 1   Week 3 Preface to Lyrical Ballads- William Wordsworth- Section 2   Week 4 Biographia Literaria- Section 1- S.T.Coleridge   Week 5 Biographia Literaria-Section 2 -S.T.Coleridge   Week 6 Modern Fiction- Virginia Woolf   Week 7 Tradition and the Individual Talent- T.S..Eliot   Week 8 The Function of Criticism- T..S..Eliot   Week 9 Principles of Literary Criticism-.I.A.Richards   Week 10 Practical Criticism- I.A. Richards   Week 11 The Heresy of Paraphrase- Cleanth Brooks   Week 12 The Language of Paradox- Cleanth Brooks   Week 13 Feminism – Maggie Humm

Week 14
Feminism- Maggie Humm