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Literary Theory and Literary Criticism

Literary Theory and Literary Criticism. Instructor: Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The course presents an overview of major trends in literary criticism and literary theory. It traces the key topics in these domains beginning from the classical times of Aristotle, Plato and Longinus till more recent theoretical trends, such as film studies, gender studies and Ecocriticism. (from nptel.ac.in)

Introduction


Lecture 01 - Introduction and Course Overview
Lecture 02 - Key Terms and Concepts: Allegory, Intertextuality, Narrative, etc.
Lecture 03 - Key Terms and Concepts: Affective Fallacy, Archetype, etc.
Lecture 04 - Key Terms and Concepts: Closure, Postmodernism, etc.
Lecture 05 - Classical Theory: Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Age
Lecture 06 - Early Modern Period and Neoclassicism
Lecture 07 - Early Romanticism
Lecture 08 - Romanticism
Lecture 09 - Late 19th Century
Lecture 10 - Marxism
Lecture 11 - Twentieth Century Criticism: Formalism and New Criticism
Lecture 12 - Structuralism
Lecture 13 - Archetypal Criticism
Lecture 14 - Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Criticism
Lecture 15
Lecture 16 - Post Structuralism
Lecture 17 - Post Colonialism
Lecture 18 - New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Lecture 19 - Reader Response Criticism
Lecture 20 - Semiotics Theory
Lecture 21 - Film Studies
Lecture 22 - Postmodernism
Lecture 23 - Ecocriticism
Lecture 24 - Post Theory

References
Literary Theory and Literary Criticism
Instructor: Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The course presents an overview of major trends in literary criticism and literary theory.