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Course Code: BH-ENG 604 Course Name: Literary Theory |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Marxism a. Antonio Gramsci: ‘The Formation of the Intellectuals’ and ‘Hegemony (Civil Society) and Separation of Powers’, in Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. and tr. Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Novell Smith (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1971) pp. 5, 245–6. b. Louis Althusser: ‘Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses’, in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2006) pp. 85–126. |
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| 2 | Feminism a. Elaine Showalter:‘Twenty Years on: A Literature of Their Own Revisited’, in A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977. Rpt. London: Virago, 2003) pp. xi–xxxiii. b. Luce Irigaray: ‘When the Goods Get Together’ (from This Sex Which is Not One), in New French Feminisms, ed. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (New York: Schocken Books, 1981) pp. 107–10. |
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| 3 | Poststructuralism a. Jacques Derrida:‘Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Science’, tr. Alan Bass, in Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, ed. David Lodge (London: Longman, 1988) pp. 108–23. b. Michel Foucault:‘Truth and Power’, in Power and Knowledge, tr. Alessandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino (New York: Pantheon, 1977) pp. 109–33. |
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| 4 | Postcolonial Studies a. Mahatma Gandhi: ‘Passive Resistance’ and ‘Education’, in Hind Swaraj and Other Writings, ed. Anthony J Parel (Delhi: CUP, 1997) pp. 88–106. b. Edward Said: ‘The Scope of Orientalism’ in Orientalism (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978) pp. 29–110. c. Aijaz Ahmad:“Indian Literature”: Notes towards the Definition of a Category’, in In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London: Verso, 1992) pp. 243–285. |
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