B.A. English
8th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-16 : English Literary Criticism
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Unit 1: Wordsworth and Coleridge
◦(a) William Wordsworth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads(1802)
◦(b) S
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◦Coleridge: BiographicalLiteraria(ChaptersXIII & XIV)
◦India: CreateSpace Independent Pub
Unit 2: Arnold and Eliot
◦(a) Arnold: "The Study of Poetry"
◦(b) Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and "Functions of Criticism" fromD.J
◦Enright and Ernst De Chickera
◦English Critical Texts
◦New Delhi: Oxford University Press
Unit 3: I. A. Richards
◦(a) I
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◦Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism (Ch - 1, The Chaos of Critical Theories)
◦London & New York: Routledge&Kagan Paul
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◦Richards: Practical Criticism
◦London: Kagan Paul
◦1930
Unit 4: Major Modern Literary Trends
◦Formalism
◦Modernism
◦Postmodernism
◦Structuralism
Reference Books:
- C.S.Lewis:Introduction inAnExperimentinCriticism,London:CambridgeUniversity Press 1992.
- M.H.Abrams:The Mirror and the Lamp,Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,1971.
- Rene Wellek,Stephen G.Nicholas:Concepts of Criticism,Connecticut: Yale University1963.
- Taylor and Francis Eds.An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory,New York:Routledge,1996.
- Wimsatt and Brookes,Literary Criticism:A Short History,New York:Knof,1957.
- D.J.Enright and Ernst De Chickera,English Critical Texts,New Delhi: Oxford University Press,1962.
- Blairms, Harry. A History of Literary Criticism (Middle Ages to Renaissance,pp.25-69),Houndmills:Macmillan Education,1991.
- M.H.Abrams.A Glossary of English Literary Terms.Cengage India Pvt. Ltd.(2015)
- Peter Barry.Beginning Theory. (3rd Edn),viva Books (2010)