Sem4

Syllabus

Course Name: Critical Theories III
Type: Major Mandatory
Course Code: MAU0325MML503J3
Course Credits: 4
Marks: Semester End: 80; Internal Assessment: 20 Total Marks: 100

Course Outcomes:
1. Students will understand the thoughts of the prescribed critical and literary
theorists from different traditions.
2. Students will analyse and compare various schools of critical and literary
theories.
3. Students will develop critical insights to look at literature produced in various
ages across the globe.

Unit 1: Introduction to Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Reader response theory (Hours - 15, Credit - 1)

Unit 2: (Hours - 15, Credit - 1)

 a) Jacques Derrida – Specters of Marx
 b) Roland Barthes- The Death of the Author

Unit 3: (Hours - 15, Credit - 1) 

 a) Wolfgang Iser – Interaction between Text and Reader
 b) Harold Bloom – The Anxiety of Influence

Unit 4: (Hours - 15, Credit - 1)

a) Jacques Lacan – The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of I as revealed in Psychoanalytic Experiment
b) Laura Mulvey – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

(All Essays are prescribed from Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Ed. Leitch)

Prescribed Texts from:

Leitch, V. B. (Ed.). The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Second Edition. N. York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2010.

Question Paper Pattern 
Note: Total marks – 80

Q. 1. Answer in one word/phrase/sentence (Ten items to be set): 10
Q. 2. Answer any two (out of three) in about 600 words each 30 (Three questions will be set on prescribed texts )
Q. 3. Answer any two (out of three) in about 600 words each. 30 (All the questions will be set on prescribed texts – not covered in Q. 2)
Q. 4. Write short notes on (any two – out of three: in about 200 words each) 10

Reference Books:
Barry, Peter : Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theories, Second Edition. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004.
Brooker, Peter, Ed. Modernism/ Postmodernism. New York: Longman, 1992
Connor, Steven. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Cuddon.J. A., Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Wiley, 2013
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Eagleton, Terry. After Theory. UK: Penguin, 2004.
Felluga, Dino. Critical Theory: The Key Concepts. Routledge, 2015.
Goulimari, Pelagia. Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism, London & New York: Routledge, 2014.
Guerin, Wilfred L. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Hans Bertens, Literary Theory: The Basics. London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
Jaawre, Aniket. Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism and Poststructuralism, Orient Blackswan, 2001.
Hawthorn, Jeremy. A Concise Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Edward Arnold, 1992.
Lodge, David and Nigel Wood (Ed.) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader (Second edition). New Delhi: Pearson, 1988.
Nagarajan, M.S. English Literary Criticism & Theory: An Introductory History, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006.
Rice and Waugh Ed. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. 4th Edition 2001.Hodder Arnold.
Selden, Widdowson and Brooker. Eds. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, New Delhi: Pearson, 2006.