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BLOCK 3: Romantic and Victorian Criticism

UNIT1 Wordsworth – Definition of Poetry – Poetic Diction and Language

UNIT 2 Coleridge – Fancy and Imagination

UNIT 3 Matthew Arnold – Functions of Poetry – Functions of Criticism –
Touchstone Method

BLOCK 4: 20th Century Literary Criticism

UNIT 1 T. S. Eliot – The Modernist Ethic in Literature with References to “Tradition

and Individual Talent”, Objective Correlative, Dissociation of Sensibility

UNIT 2 F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition, Concept of Literature and Criticism

UNIT 3 New Criticism – Brief Introduction to the Contributions of I. A. Richards (Practical
Criticism), William Empson (Ambiguity), John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks
(Paradox), Wimsatt and Beardsley (Affective and Intentional Fallacy)

UNIT 4 Structuralism – Saussure (Langue/Parole, Sign/Signified/Signifier)

BLOCK 5: After Structuralism

UNIT 1 Defining the ‘text’ and ‘author’ – The Theoretical Formulations of Roland

Barthes, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida

UNIT 2 Postcolonialism – Orient/Occident, Negritude, Subaltern, Othering

UNIT 3 Feminism – Waves of Feminism, Schools of Feminism, Gynocritics

UNIT 5 Psychoanalysis – Id, Ego, Superego

BLOCK 6: Indian Aesthetics

UNIT 1 Theory of Rasa, Alamkara, Dhwanisidhant

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