Literary Criticism II

Course Description: It is an intensive course divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with two prominent critics of English literature, while the second part deals with theories about criticism where the readers would be exposed to philosophical and critical thoughts on selected topics.This course in line with the topics taken up in literary movements would prepare the students for critical and analytical analysis of texts and help them in their research work.

Part I

Mathew Arnold
• Culture and Anarchy
T.S Eliot
• Tradition and Individual Talent
• Religion and Literature

Part II

Defenses of Criticism
• An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope, Original Text
• An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope, Summary and Analysis
• 20 Key Points from Oscar Wilde's "The Critic as an Artist"
Aesthetics
• Exploring the 20 Key Concepts of On the Intellectual Beauty by Plotinus
• Exploring the 20 Key Concepts of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's "Laocoon"

Representation and Realism

• Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy
• Hayden White, The Historical Text on Literary Artifact
  Authorship
  
• Understanding the Key Concepts of Horace's Ars Poetica: A 20-Point Guide
  Enlightenment Theory and Criticism
  
• Aphra Behn, Epistle to the Reader
• David Hume, of the Standard of Taste
• Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement.
• Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
  Canon/Tradition
• Edward Young, from Conjectureson Original Composition
  Language & Rhetoric
  
• Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine
• Ferdinand De Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
  Reader Response
  
• Ronald Barthes, From Mythologies
  Semantic Theory and Criticism
  
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on Fine Art
  Enlightenment Theory and Criticism
  
• Friedrich Von Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
• Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  Tradition
  
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Four Stages of Poetry
• Mathew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
• Terry Eagleton, Introduction to Literary Theory: An Introduction
  Institutionalization of Literary Studies
  
• John Crove Ransom, Criticism