Course Description: It is an intensive course divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with two prominent critics of English literature, while the second part deals with theories about criticism where the readers would be exposed to philosophical and critical thoughts on selected topics.This course in line with the topics taken up in literary movements would prepare the students for critical and analytical analysis of texts and help them in their research work.
Part I
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Mathew Arnold
- Culture and Anarchy T.S Eliot
- Tradition and Individual Talent
- Religion and Literature
Part II
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Defenses of Criticism
- An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope, Original Text
- An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope, Summary and Analysis
- 20 Key Points from Oscar Wilde's "The Critic as an Artist" Aesthetics
- Exploring the 20 Key Concepts of On the Intellectual Beauty by Plotinus
- Exploring the 20 Key Concepts of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's "Laocoon"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy
- Hayden White, The Historical Text on Literary Artifact
Authorship
- Understanding the Key Concepts of Horace's Ars Poetica: A 20-Point Guide
Enlightenment Theory and Criticism
- Aphra Behn, Epistle to the Reader
- David Hume, of the Standard of Taste
- Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement.
- Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Canon/Tradition - Edward Young, from Conjectureson Original Composition
Language & Rhetoric
- Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine
- Ferdinand De Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
Reader Response
- Ronald Barthes, From Mythologies
Semantic Theory and Criticism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on Fine Art
Enlightenment Theory and Criticism
- Friedrich Von Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Tradition
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Four Stages of Poetry
- Mathew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
- Terry Eagleton, Introduction to Literary Theory: An Introduction
Institutionalization of Literary Studies
- John Crove Ransom, Criticism
Representation and Realism