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IGNOU MEG-05 Code Details
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University
IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
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Title
Literary Criticism and Theory
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Language(s)
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Code
MEG-05
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Subject
English
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Degree(s)
MA
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Course
Core Courses (CC)
IGNOU 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
IGNOU MEG-05 (July 2024 - January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Explain and discuss Aristotle’s view of literature as imitation.
2. Do you think that Wordsworth establishes a new poetic theory? What are the main features of his theory?
3. Write short notes on the following:
(a) Rasa
(b) Catharsis
(c) Postmodernism
(d) “Woman as other”
4. Show how literary criticism and theory have developed a materialistic dimension based on Marxism.
5. Draw out the ideologies set forth by Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf as pioneer feminists.
IGNOU MEG-05 (July 2023 - January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Why does Plato want the artists to be kept away from the ideal state? Discuss.
2. Examine the purpose spontaneity, emotions and personality serve in Wordsworth’s theory of poetry.
3. Write short notes on the following:
a) Peripetia
(b) Sphota
(c) Class ideology
(d) Poetic Diction
4. Discuss briefly, the ideas of Marx and Engels on class relations.
5. Comment on Mary Wollstonecraft’s contributions to the rights of women.
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