Aesthetics and Criticism
Course Name:
Aesthetics and Criticism (SM 915)
Programme:
Ph.D
Credits (L-T-P):
4
Content:
The nature of Aesthetics: Aesthetics as "metacriticism"; the relationship between art-criticism and aesthetic theorizing; the relationship between creative practices and aesthetics. Some major theories of art: Western- (a) Formalism- Structuralism; (b) Post-structuralism; (c) Art and the human mind: Psychoanalysis; (d) Art and human society and culture: Marxism, Cultural Studies; (e) Feminism; (f) Post-modernism and Post-colonialism; Some major theories of art: Indian- (a) the Dhvani theory; (b) the Rasa theory
References:
1. Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Delhi: OUP, 1992.
2. Krishna, Daya India's Intellectual Traditions:Attempts at Conceptual Reconstructions. Delhi: ICPR & Motilal Banarsidass, 1987.
3. Niranjana, T., P. Sudhir and V. Dhareshwa, Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India Calcutta: Seagull, 1993.
4. Rader, M. (ed.) A Modern Book of Esthetics, Harcourt, 1979. Singer,
5. Alan et al (eds.) Literary Aesthetics. Blackwell, 1999.
6. Seturaman, V. S. (ed.) Indian Aesthetics: an introduction. Madras: Macmillan,1992.
7. Turner, Byran S. (ed) Theories of Modernity and Post-modernity. London: Sage,1990.
8. Waugh, Patricia (ed) Postmodernism: A Reader. London: Edward Arnold,1992.
9. Zima, Peter V. The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory. London: The Athlone Press,1999.
Department:
Humanities, Social Sciences and Management
