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 Bankura University M.A (English) Syllabus Semester III

 Bankura University M.A (English) Syllabus

Semester III

Course: ENG 301C: Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation I

Unit I
  1. Plato: The Republic (Book III & X)
  2. Aristotle: Poetics
  3. Longinus: On the Sublime
Unit II
  1. Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
  2. John Dryden: An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
  3. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism (or) Voltaire: Essay on Epic Poetry

Course English 302C: Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation II

Unit I
  1. A.W.Schlegal: Commentary on Shakespeare (or) Friedrich Schiller: On Naive and Sentimental Poetry
  2. S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Chapter XIII, XIV, XVIII)
  3. William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads (or) Matthew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
  4. T.S. Eliot: “To Criticise the Critic”/ “Tradition and the Individual Talent”/”Hamlet and His Problems”
Unit II
  1. Roland Barthes: Death of the Author
  2. Michel Foucault: Who is an Author?
  3. Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in Human Sciences”

Course English 303C: Literary Theory I

Unit I
  1. Marxism:
    1. Antonio Gramsci: “Formation of the Intellectuals”
  2. Historigraphy: New Historicism & Cultural Materialism
    1. Stephen Greenblatt: Resonance and Wonder (from Learning to Curse)
  3. Nationalism:
    1. Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities
Unit II:
  1. Diaspora:
      1. Stuart Hall: ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ (from Theorizing Diaspora)
      2. Vijay Mishra: The Diasporic Imagery: Theorizing the Indian Diaspora (1st Chapter)

Course English 304C: Literary Theory II

Unit I
  1. Post colonialism:
    1. Edward Said: ‘Introduction’ to Orientalism
    2. Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak: Can Subaltern Speak?
    3. Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth (1st Chapter)
Unit II
  1. Gender Studies:
    1. Judith Butler: Gender Trouble (Preface)
  2. Ecocriticism:
    1. Cheryll Glotfelty: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental
    2. Crisis (The Ecocriticism Reader)
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