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Introduction to Literary Theory
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| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | IIT Kanpur |
The Syllabus
- Introduction: What is Literary Theory?
- Literature & Mimesis: Plato (I)
- Literature & Mimesis: Plato (II)
- Literature and Mimesis: Aristotle (I)
- Literature & Mimesis: Aristotle II
- Literature and the Sublime
- Neoclassical Literary Theory
- Literature and Romanticism I
- Literature and Romanticism II
- New Criticism
- Formalism
- Dialogism I
- Lecture 13
- Reader Response Theory I: The Phenomenological Tradition
- Reader Response Theory II: Wolfgang Iser, Harold Bloom, and Stanley Fish
- Structuralism I: Ferdinand de Saussure
- Structuralism II: Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Poststructuralism I: Roland Barthes
- Poststructuralism II: Jacques Derrida
- Poststructuralism III: Michel Foucault
- Marxist Literary Theory I: Marx and Brecht
- Marxist Literary Theory II: Althusser and Gramsci
- Marxist Literary Theory III: Raymond Williams
- Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (I)
- Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (II)
- Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (III)
- Literature and Psychoanalysis IV: Carl Jung
- Literature and Psychoanalysis V: Jacques Lacan
- Feminism and Literature I: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Feminism and Literature II: Woolf & de Beauvoir
- Feminism and Literature III: Gynocriticism, Écriture Feminine, Judith Butler
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Postcolonial Theory I: Edward Said
- Postcolonial Theory II: Bhabha and Spivak
- Conclusion