• -Bertens, “Reading For Meaning” (pp. 1-30)
• -Barry, “Theory Before Theory” (pp. 11-38)

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• Postmodern/Poststructuralist Turn
• Culler, “What is Theory?” (pp. 1-17)

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  • Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lie in an Extra Moral Sense” (from Richter, pp. 452-458)

Unit-II: New Criticism/Russian Formalism

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• Tyson, “New Criticism” (pp. 135-168)
• Cleanth Brooks, “The Language of Paradox” (from Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 28- 39)
• Viktor Shlovsky, “Art as Technique” (from Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 7-14)

Unit-III: Structuralism/Semiotics

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• Tyson, “Structuralist Criticism” (pp. 209-248)
• -de Saussure, Ferdinand, “Nature of the Linguistic Sign” (from Richter, pp. 842-844) and “Binary                           Oppositions” (from Richter, pp. 845-851)
• -Levi-Strauss, Claude. “The Structural Study of Myth” (from Richter, pp. 860-867)
• -Barthes, Roland, Selection from Mythologies (from Leitch, pp. 1461-1465

Unit-IV: Poststructuralism/ Deconstructive Criticism

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• Tyson, “Deconstructive Criticism” (pp. 249-280)
• -Derrida, Jacques. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences” (from Richter, pp. 915-926)

Unit-V: Psychoanalytic Criticism

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• Tyson, “Psychoanalytic Criticism” (pp. 11-52)
• -Freud, Sigmund, “Creative Writers and Day- dreaming” (from Richter, pp. 509-514)
• -Lacan, Jacques, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I function … Experience” (from Richter, pp.441-446)

Unit-VI: Marxist Criticism

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• Tyson, “Marxist Criticism” (pp. 53-82)
• -Marx, Karl, Selection from The German Ideology (from Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 653-658)
• -Althusser, Louis, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (from Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 693- 702)

Unit-VII: Feminist Criticism

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• Tyson, “Feminist Criticism” (pp. 83-134)
• -Gilbert, Sandra & Gubar, Susan, “Infection in the Sentence” (from Leitch, pp. 2023-2035)
• -Cixous, Helene, “The Laugh of the Medusa” (from Leitch, pp. 2039-2056)

The objectives of this course are to:

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• Introduce the students to national themes and issues in Pakistani literature.
• Enable the students to compare and relate Pakistani writings in English with English writings from other parts of the world in order to enhance critical thinking.
• Provide the students with a wide basis for research on Pakistani issues and conflicts in literary studies.
• Evaluate the sense of responsibility on Pakistani writers producing literature in English as a foreign language.
• Analyze the contribution of literature to aesthetic, imaginative and intellectual growth of Pakistani society.

Teaching will be done through lecture method with a combination of tasks/projects and presentations.

Assessment and Examinations

Assessment will be done as per university/department policy.