Bankura University M.A (English) Syllabus
Semester III
Course: ENG 301C: Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation I
- Plato: The Republic (Book III & X)
- Aristotle: Poetics
- Longinus: On the Sublime
- Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
- John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
- Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism (or) Voltaire: Essay on Epic Poetry
Course English 302C: Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation II
- A.W.Schlegal: Commentary on Shakespeare (or) Friedrich Schiller: On Naive and Sentimental Poetry
- S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapter XIII, XIV, XVIII)
- William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads (or) Matthew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
- T.S. Eliot: “To Criticise the Critic”/ “Tradition and the Individual Talent”/”Hamlet and His Problems”
- Roland Barthes: Death of the Author
- Michel Foucault: Who is an Author?
- Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in Human Sciences”
Course English 303C: Literary Theory I
- Marxism:
- Antonio Gramsci: “Formation of the Intellectuals”
- Historigraphy: New Historicism & Cultural Materialism
- Stephen Greenblatt: Resonance and Wonder (from Learning to Curse)
- Nationalism:
- Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities
- Diaspora:
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- Stuart Hall: ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ (from Theorizing Diaspora)
- Vijay Mishra: The Diasporic Imagery: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora (1st Chapter)
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Course English 304C: Literary Theory II
- Post colonialism:
- Edward Said: ‘Introduction’ to Orientalism
- Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak: Can Subaltern Speak?
- Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth (1st Chapter)
- Gender Studies:
- Judith Butler: Gender Trouble (Preface)
- Ecocriticism:
- Cheryll Glotfelty: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental
- Crisis (The Ecocriticism Reader)