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Literary Theory & Practice: Course Outline

This course seeks to demystify literary theory and study it as a practical tool for interpreting literary texts. It will start with an introduction to literary theory as a crucial tool of scholarly interpretation.

Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Formalism: Russian and New Criticism
  • Structuralism, Linguistics and Narratology
  • Post Structuralism
  • Deconstruction
  • Reader Response theory
  • Psychoanalysis :Freud and Lacan
  • Historicism
  • Political Criticism: Marxism
  • Cultural Materialism
  • Feminism and Gender studies
  • Feminism and Gender studies continued.
  • Ethnic and  Critical Race Theory
  • Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Theory
  • Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Theory continued

Essential Reading