IGNOU MEG-05
- Literary Criticism and Theory,
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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

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-05 English (Total-13, Solved-13, Unsolved-0)

• June (2018-2024)
• December (2018-2023)
• February (2021)

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