Ph.D. (English)
SEMESTER I COURSE WORK FOR
M. Phil/ Ph.D in ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
2018-2019
Detailed Syllabus (4 Credits= 60 hours)
HISTORY OF IDEAS AND LITERARY THEORY HEN82105
Scope and Content
Emerging Areas of Research
Interdisciplinary Approaches
UNIT I: History of Ideas: Introduction and Continuity, Disruption and Transformation of Thought and its impact on Literature, Writing, Culture
Content and Structure
Content Contact Hours Tutorial Hours
· Humanism
· Enlightenment
· Romanticism 6 2
· Liberalism
· Marxism 4 1
· Existentialism Modernism 4 1
· Orientalism Nationalism 4 1
· Postmodernism 4 2
Total 22 7
Total Contact Hours 29
UNIT II: Literary Theory as a Tool in Research: Introduction and Discussion on how specific Theories can help in mapping and opening up the topic of Research.
Content and Structure
Content Teaching Hours Tutorial Hours
· Formalism
· Structuralism 4 1
· Post-structuralism
· Deconstruction 4 2
· Ethnic Studies
· Postcolonial Theory 5 1
· New Historicism and Cultural
materialism/ Psychoanalytical Theory 5 2
· Gender Studies
· Feminism
· Queer Theory 5 2
Total 23 8
Total Contact Hours 31
Assessment will be continuous on the basis of class / home assignment essays, class pptpresentations on written Projects and Viva voce. Mid- and End-Semester Examinations will also be held. Each component of evaluation will carry weightage.
Teaching will be a combination of lectures, seminars, group interactions and tutorials.
Recommended Reading:
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Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Critical Theory Since 1965. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, Eds. Tallahassee: UP Florida, 1989. Print.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. UK: Verso, 2000
APA Handbook
Appiah. “Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?” http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/Complit/post-45/appiah_postcolonial_1991.pdf. Web.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Print.
Belsey, Catherine. “Towards Cultural History.” A Postmodern Reader. Buffalo: SUNY Press, 1993. Print.
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Chicago Handbook.
Coleridge, S.T. “BiographiaLiteraria.” The English Critical Traditions. Vols I, II. S. Ramaswami and V.S. Sethuraman, Eds. Chennai: Macmillan, 1986. Print.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New Delhi: Penguin, 208. Print.
Davies, Tony. “Marxist Aesthetics.” Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide. London, New York: Oxford UP, 2006. 140-151. Print.
De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. London, New York: Random House, 2015. Print.
Derrida, Jacques. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences.” Critical Theory Since 1965. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, Eds. Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1989.
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MLA Handbook.
Montrose, Louis A. “Professing the Renaissance: the Poetics and Politics of Culture.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_47. Web.
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