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?
••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?
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Imp. Annotations
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https://www.megmentor.com/post/alchemist-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/pygmalion-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/doctor-faustus-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/hamlet-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/look-back-in-anger-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/murder-in-cathedral-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/waiting-for-godot-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/alchemist-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/pygmalion-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/doctor-faustus-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/hamlet-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/look-back-in-anger-annotations
https://www.megmentor.com/post/murder-in-cathedral-annotations
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
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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