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Imp. Portion to be covered in meg 5

••Mary Wollstonecraft:-A Vindication of the rights of woman
••Virgin woolf:- A room of one's own
••Elaine Showalter:-Feminist criticism in the wilderness
••Simone De Beauvoir:- The second sex
••Features of feminist criticism
•• Feminist theories do not give sufficient attention to class conflict in society. Discuss



Classical criticism
Short notes:- concept of mimesis *catharsis
Plato's nd Aristotle approach to imitation
tragic falling nd leads to tragedy
Plato's imitation (mimesis) carries a negative connotation:- to imitate is to produce a copy a version that is less than original
Aristotle s theory of tragedy nd different elements( very important)
platos hostility towards art
plato declare the role of the poet as subversive
mimesis in light of plato nd Aristotle ( important repeated several times)
plato views art as twice removed from reality.
compare nd contrast plato nd Aristotle as literary theorists




New criticism
🌼I A Richards
🌼T S ELIOT
🌼F R LEAVIS
🌼JOHN CROWE RANSOM AND CLEANTH BROOKS
🌼W K WIMSATT


TS ELIOT meant by The dissociation of sensibility
Intentional fallacy and affective fallacy
New criticism emphasis the text not the background. Comment
a/q to J C Ransom what is the role of literary critic in modern world
IA Richards contribution to literary criticism
ideas expressed by CLEANTH BROOKS in his essay " IRONY AS A PRINCIPLE OF STRUCTURE ".
four obstacles of proper response that IA RICHARDS catalogues in practical criticism
INDIVIDUAL TALENT
CLEANTH BROOKS as a new critic
Ransome mean when he advocate " Criticism Inc"?
New criticism make use of model of "practical criticism" initiated by I A Richards.
common features of the critics associated with new criticism
The truth which the poets utters according to CLEANTH BROOKS can be approached. Do you agree explain.







ROMANTIC CRITICISM
💫Romanticism
💫Wordsworth: Preface to the lyrical ballads
💫Coleridge: Biographia literaria
💫P B shelley : A Defence of poetry

romantic theory
fancy nd imagination
ST Coleridge on power of the poetic imagination
Wordsworth view on all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
Romantics assert that imagination transcends reason"
Wordsworth preface to the lyrical ballads
Wordsworth view on the distinction between language of prose and metrical composition
role does Shelley assign to poets in 19th century?
role of spontaneity, emotions and personality have in Wordsworth theory of poetry
P B shelley as a romantic critic.




DECONSTRUCTION
🤍New criticism nd structuralism
🤍Beginning Deconstruction
🤍Implications
🤍Deconstructing poetry ( william Wordsworth :- AFTERTHOUGHT,
John Donne s :- THE CANONIZATION)
🤍Deconstructing Drama:- waiting for godot
🤍Re assessing Deconstruction

Theory of structuralism
strength and limitations of deconstruction
destructive analysis of John donnes the canonization
deconstructing a text
approaches of structuralism and deconstruction to the theory of sign system
Derrida analyse the concept of the sign to show that there can be no determinacy in meaning
implications of the death of the author by Ronald barthes
what is deconstruction? Is it an effective tool for analysing a literary text
Roland barthes difference between work and text
Why Derrida resist definitions?
Examine how waiting for godot problematizes the meaningless ness of life.
How is deconstructive reading of a poem different from a structuralistic reading of it?
Meg 6

Important topics to be covered
1.Block 1 background of American Puritan society
Ideology
Why did Puritans migrated
American Enlightenment
 
2.Block 2 the scarlet letter –
Themes critique of Puritan society ,utopic world
 significance of  scaffold scene ,
interpretation at different times ,
Open ended novel ,
romance novel ,
how  character’s represents Fred  id ego n superego.
 
 
3.Block 3  huckleberry finn
Themes -slavery and freedom, racism
Background-industrialisation ,abolition of slavery
Use of Language
Imp. Of Mississippi River
Use of Humour in novel
Art of characterisation
 
 4.Block 4-american prose (leaving)
Characteristics of transdentalism ,
Evolution of pamphlet writing
 
5.Block 5 &6 poetry
Walt Whiteman – influence of nature ,transdentalism, celebration of American individualism
 
Emily Dickinson- use of imagery, feminist temper,n themes
 
Robert Frost- influence of nature,
chief characteristics
use of irony in mending wall
 
Wallace Stephen – imagination used
 
Ezra pound – fragmentation in Hugh Selwyn manberrley
Ezra pound imagination n post modern elements
 
Adrienne rich -feminism influence in her poems
 
7.Short story
Background of short story -ezra pound views
Compassion between Hemingway n Faulkner
Clean well lighted place –
Hemingway Art of short story telling& style, characterization  ,Lang. Used, Narrative techniques, themes, extentialist concern
 
Bear
Willam Faulkner- characteristics of story telling,
themes ,
influence of South n attitudes towards Negros
 
8.American drama

Hairy ape –use of expressionism ,theme of pride identity and belongingness,
it’s about predicament of man in  20th century industrial civilization
Tragedy in hairy ape
 
Death of salesman- realistic tragedy, modern tragedy, realism ,fall of American dream
 
9.Bluest eyes –
Themes ,social concerns ,colour consciousness , folk elements, importance of seasons ,narrative techniques, Claudia as narrator
 
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