Literary Theory
Course Name:
SM 918 Literary Theory
Programme:
Ph.D
Credits (L-T-P):
(3-1-0) 4
Content:
The nature of literary evaluation and critical discussion. The place of universal criteria in literary criticism. Is iterary experience autonomous? The relation between literary value and (a) social reality: the problem of Commitment, Black literature, Dalit literature, etc., (b) psychological reality, the problem of the unconscious (Freudian and Jungian).The theory of the forms/genres of literature. Structuralism and stylistics.
References:
R. Wellek, and A. Warren, Theory of Literature, Penguin, Harmondsworth
W. Wimsatt and C. Brooks, Literary Criticism: A Short History, OUP & IBH, New Delhi
T. Engleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, Oxford, Blackwell K.
Elam, Semiotics of Theatre & Drama, Methuen, N.Y.
T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, Faber, London
D. Lodge, (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Longman,
London D. Lodge (ed.), Modern Criticism & Theory. Longman, London
I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
M. Rader, (Ed.), A Modern Book of Aesthetics, Fourth Edition, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, New York
D. Craig, (Ed.), Marxists on Literature, An Anthology, Penguin,
Harmondsworth N. Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, Princeton University Press, N.Y.
Department:
School of Management
