Week 1:
(i) Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory
(ii) Modern Criticism -T S Eliot
(iii) Principles of Criticism- I A Richards
(iv) Criticism and Culture- F R Leavis
Week 2:
(i) Anglo American/ New Criticism: Basic Tenets
(ii) Fallacies in Criticism- Wimsatt and Beardsley
(iii) New Critics and Concepts I- Ransom and Brooks
(iv) New Critics and Concepts II- Empson and Blackmur
(v) Debating Language and Knowledge: New Critics
Week 3:
(i) Russian Formalism: History and Origin
(ii) Russian Formalism Key Concepts
(iii) Types of Formalism: Russian Formalists
(iv) Russian Formalist’s Approach to Poetry
(v) Russian Formalist’s Approach to Fiction
Week 4:
(i) Structuralism: Origin and Links to Formalism
(ii) Structuralism and Ferdinand de Saussure
(iii) Structuralists Poetics: Jakobson, Propp,
(iv) Structuralist Anthropology and Myth: C Levi Strauss and Northope Frye
(v) Structuralism and Narratology: Barthes, Gennet
Week 5:
(i) Post-Structuralism: A Critique of Structuralism
(ii) Deconstruction: Derrida and His Acolytes-I
(iii) Deconstruction: Derrida and His Acolytes-II
(iv) Deconstruction Literature and Philosophy
(v) Post Structuralism and its Influence
Week 6:
(i) Reader- Response Criticism
(ii) Phenomenology: Husserl and Heidegger
(iii) Hermeneutics
(iv) Reception Theory
(v) Reader Response Critics: Jauss, Iser, Fish and Bleich
Week 7:
(i) Semiotics and Post-Semiotics
(ii) Stylistics
(iii) Speech Act Theory
(iv) Chicago School of Criticism
Week 8: Tests and Assignments
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