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    LITERARY CRITICISM

    Objectives of the Course:

     To introduce students to Literary Criticism and its relevance to Literature.


     To acquaint students with critical writing by making them study canonical
    texts from representative ages.
     To give them an opportunity to familiarize themselves with critical
    perspectives and terminology.

    Unit 1
    Aristotle - Poetics
    Philip Sidney - Apologie for Poetrie

    Unit 2
    John Dryden - Essay on Dramatic Poesie
    Samuel Johnson - Preface to Shakespeare

    Unit 3
    Willam Wordsworth - Preface to Lyrical Ballads
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria
    Chapter XIII (Discussion on Fancy and
    Imagination)
    and Chapter XIV(The poet in ideal
    perfection …
    P. B. Shelley - Defence of Poetry
    Unit 4
    Mathew Arnold - The Study of Poetry
    T. S. Eliot - Tradition and Individual Talent
    I. A. Richards - Four Kinds of Meaning

    Unit 5

    Tolkappiyar - On Diction & Syntax (Trans. S. Illakuvanar


    Bharata - Theories of Rasa
    Anandhavardana - Dhvanyaloka (Trans. K. Krishnamoorthy)

    Recommended Reading
    Devy, G.N. ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory & Interpretation. Hyderabad:
    Orient Blackswan, 2002.

    Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the
    Present. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.

    Sethuraman, V.S. The English Critical Tradition. Madras: Macmillan India Ltd.,
    1977.
    ----, ed. Indian Aesthetics. Madras: Madras: Macmillan India Ltd., 1977.

    Wimsatt, William and Cleanth Brooks. Literary Criticism: A Short History.


    Calcutta: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., 1957.

    Enright, D.J and Chickera. English Critical Texts. Ed., New Delhi: OUP, 2005

    EVALUATION PATTERN

    I. Continuous Assessments - Total Marks: 25

    1. Two Written Tests & a Model Exam - 15 (Consolidated)


    2. Seminars & Assignments - 05
    3. Attendance - 05
    Total (1+2+3+) = 25 Marks

    II. End Semester Exam- Total Marks: 75 (Duration: 3


    hours)

    # Questions should be given from all units.

    Section - A (20x1=20)

    * 20 Objective Type Questions with Multiple Choices from all the


    prescribed texts.

    * Questions on the titles and authors of the prescribed works should


    be avoided.

    Section – B (5x5=25)

    * FIVE out of EIGHT.

    *Short notes or a paragraph questions should be answered in about


    200 words.

    Section – C (3x10=30)

    * THREE out of SIX - either (a) or (b) essay type questions.

    * Essay in about 500 words.

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