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MEG-05 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – An Introduction
- Unit 1 – Literature, Criticism and Theory
- Unit 2 – Overview of Western Critical Thought
- Unit 3 – Twentieth Century Developments
- Unit 4 – The Function of Criticism
- Unit 5 – Indian Aesthetics
- Unit 6 – Resistance to Theory/How to Read a Reader
Block 2 – Classical Criticism
- Unit 1 – Features of Classical Criticism
- Unit 2 – Plato on Imitation and Art
- Unit 3 – Aristotle’s Theory of Imitation
- Unit 4 – Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-I
- Unit 5 – Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-II
- Unit 6 – Criticism as Dialogue
Block 3 – Romantic Criticism
- Unit 1 – Romanticism
- Unit 2 – Words Worth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
- Unit 3 – Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
- Unit 4 – P.B.Shelley: A Defiance of Poetry
Block 4 – New Criticism
- Unit 1 – I.A.Richards
- Unit 2 – T.S.Eliot
- Unit 3 – F.R.Leavis
- Unit 4 – John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks
- Unit 5 – W.K.Wimsatt
- Unit 6 – Conclusion
Block 5 – Marxist View of Literature
- Unit 1 – Marxism and Literature
- Unit 2 – Society and History: Marxist View
- Unit 3 – Representing and Critiquing Society: Superstructures
- Unit 4 – Commitment in Literature
- Unit 5 – Autonomy in Literature
- Unit 6 – Literature and Ideology
Block 6 – Feminist Theories
- Unit 1 – Features of Feminist Criticism
- Unit 2 – Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of woman
- Unit 3 – Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
- Unit 4 – Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
- Unit 5 – Elaine Showalter: ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’
- Unit 6 – Feminist Concerns in India Today
Block 7 – Deconstruction
- Unit 1 – Roots: New Criticism and Structuralism
- Unit 2 – Beginning Deconstruction
- Unit 3 – Implications
- Unit 4 – Deconstructing Poetry
- Unit 5 – Deconstructing Drama
- Unit 6 – Re-Assessing Deconstruction
Block 8 – Contemporary Literary Theory
- Unit 1 – Some Basic Issues
- Unit 2 – Postmodernism: The Basics
- Unit 3 – Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
- Unit 4 – Postcolonial Theory: Said, Spivak and Bhabha
- Unit 5 – Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism
- Unit 6 – Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism
