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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesIIT 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

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