IGNOU MEG 5 Syllabus: Literary Criticism and Theory

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Block 1 - An Introduction

  • Unit 1 – Literature, Criticism and Theory
  • Unit 2 – Overview of Western Critical Thought
  • Unit 3 – Twentieth Century Developments
  • Unit 4 – The Function of Criticism
  • Unit 5 – Indian Aesthetics
  • Unit 6 – Resistance to Theory/How to Read a Reader
Summary of MEG 05 Block 1

Block 2 - Classical Criticism

  • Unit 1 – Features of Classical Criticism
  • Unit 2 – Plato on Imitation and Art
  • Unit 3 – Aristotle’s Theory of Imitation
  • Unit 4 – Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-I
  • Unit 5 – Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-II
  • Unit 6 – Criticism as Dialogue
Summary of MEG 05 Block 2

Block 3 - Romantic Criticism

  • Unit 1 – Romanticism
  • Unit 2 – Words Worth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
  • Unit 3 – Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
  • Unit 4 – P.B.Shelley: A Defiance of Poetry
Summary of MEG 05 Block 3

Block 4 - New Criticism

  • Unit 1 – I.A.Richards
  • Unit 2 – T.S.Eliot
  • Unit 3 – F.R.Leavis
  • Unit 4 – John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks
  • Unit 5 – W.K.Wimsatt
  • Unit 6 – Conclusion
Summary of MEG 05 Block 4

Block 5 - Marxist View of Literature

  • Unit 1 – Marxism and Literature
  • Unit 2 – Society and History: Marxist View
  • Unit 3 – Representing and Critiquing Society: Superstructures
  • Unit 4 – Commitment in Literature
  • Unit 5 – Autonomy in Literature
  • Unit 6 – Literature and Ideology
Summary of MEG 05 Block 5

Block 6 - Feminist Theories

  • Unit 1 – Features of Feminist Criticism
  • Unit 2 – Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of woman
  • Unit 3 – Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
  • Unit 4 – Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
  • Unit 5 – Elaine Showalter: ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’
  • Unit 6 – Feminist Concerns in India Today
Summary of MEG 05 Block 6

Block 7 - Deconstruction

  • Unit 1 – Roots: New Criticism and Structuralism
  • Unit 2 – Beginning Deconstruction
  • Unit 3 – Implications
  • Unit 4 – Deconstructing Poetry
  • Unit 5 – Deconstructing Drama
  • Unit 6 – Re-Assessing Deconstruction
Summary of MEG 05 Block 7

Block 8 - Contemporary Literary Theory

  • Unit-1 Some Basic Issues

  • Unit-2 Postmodernism : The Basics

  • Unit-3 Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan

  • Unit-4 Postcolonial Theory: Said, Spivak and Bhabha

  • Unit-5 Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism

  • Unit-6 Literary Criticism and Theory: A Summing Up

Summary of MEG 05 Block 8