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Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

The Literary Theory and Literary Criticism certification course duration is 8 weeks. The course provides a comprehensive curriculum that covers the major trends in literary criticism and literary theory. With the industry experts support students gain in-depth knowledge in various domains from classical times to recent trends.

The course covers all the aspects of literary criticism and literary theory from the classical trends times of Aristotle, Plato, and Longinus until today's theoretical trends such as film studies, gender studies and Eco criticism. The Literary Theory and Literary Criticism certification by NPTEL provides a deep understanding of Classical/Neo-Classical Theory, Marxism, and others.

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The Highlights

8 Weeks to Complete
Certification by IIT
IIT Madras Faculty

Programme Offerings

assignments
Books
videos
Transcripts

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
yes	IIT Madras

Eligibility Criteria

Certification Qualifying Details

The students will receive a certificate upon completion of the Literary Theory and Literary Criticism certification course.

What you will learn

After completing the Literary Theory and Literary Criticism certification syllabus the students gain in-depth knowledge and skills from leading industry experts. The students will also explore the various classical theories such as Romanticism, Twentieth Century Criticism and Gender and Queer Theory.

Upon completing the Literary Theory and Literary Criticism training, the students will not only gain knowledge about classical theories but they will also learn about recent theoretical trends such as gender studies, ecocriticism, film studies, major film movements, cinema and modernism.

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Admission Details

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Step 3: Fill out the registration form, submit it and join the Literary Theory and Literary Criticism course

The Syllabus

Classical/ Neo Classical Theory I
Greek and Roman models with an emphasis on classical qualities
Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus
Theories of Drama, Poetry and Style

Classical/ Neo Classical Theory II
Early Modern-Enlightenment (Philip Sidney, Dryden, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Locke, Addison, Hume)
Ars Poetica, Sublimity and the Satire

Romanticism I
Early Nineteenth Century Romanticism
French and German Romanticism
Schiller, Stael
Kant and Hegel Kant Critique of Judgement

Romanticism II
English and American Romanticism
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, Poe
Poetic Diction, Fancy and Imagination'
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) Biographia Literaria (1817)
William Hazlitt “On Poetry in General”
Harold Bloom, ed., Romanticism and Consciousness (1970)

Late Nineteenth Century
Realism and Naturalism
Eliot, Zola, Henry James
Symbolism and Aestheticism
Baudelaire, Walter Pater, Wilde
Art for Art's Sake
Arnold and the Touchstone Method
Objective Correlative, Dissociation of Sensibility, Impersonality of Art

Marxism Marx, Engels
Dialectical Materialism, Economic Determinism
Manifesto, Das Kapital
Lukacs, The novel and socialist realism,
Ideology
Althusser/Gramsci- Power/Control; Rule/HegemonyEagleton
Frankfurt School; Adorno, W. Benjamin

Twentieth Century Criticism
Formalism and New Criticism
Brooks, Well Wrought Urn, Irony as a Principle of Structure
Paul de Man, Eliot, A Tate
J C Ransom, The New Criticism
Will Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
The Chicago School, R S Crane
Shklovsky, Eichenbaum, Bakhtin, Jacobson
Defamiliarization, foregrounding, syuzhet/fabula
Prague Linguistic Circle

Structuralism
Jean Piaget on “ Structure” Saussure, Barthes
Lang/Par, synchro/diachronic analysis, syntagmatic/paradigm
Strauss - Mythologies
Jonathan Culler, Structuralist Poetics
Prague linguistic circle
Jakobson, Trubetskoy, Rene Wellek

Archetypal Criticism
Bodkin, Archetypal Patterns in Poetry
Frazer, The Golden Bough
Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
C G Jung, Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Characters, Narratives, Symbols

Psychoanalysis
Freud, Jung, Lacan
The Interpretation of Dreams, complexes, defences, psychosexual stages and levels Hamlet Psychoanalysed
Lacan, Jung and deviance from Freud
Metaphor, Metonymy

Gender and Queer Theory
Woolf A Room of One's Own, Gilbert and Gubar, Beauvoir, Showalter, Kristeva, Cixous, Mulvey Ecriture Feminine, Gynocriticism, Literary Paternity
Radical, Liberal and Rational Feminism
Performativity, Butler Gender Trouble, Sedgwick
Queer Theory and LGBT criticism

Post Structuralism
Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Barthes
Eco, The Open Work
Deconstruction
Derrida, Of Grammatology
“Differance”
Yale School
de Man, Hillis Miller
Semiology and the Rhetoric

Reader Response and Reception
Husserl, Heidder, Jauss, Iser, Fish
1976 "Interpreting the Variorum", Interpretive Communities
Is There A Text in This Class
R Ingarden, The Intentional Object and the layers of strata

Post Colonialism
Fanon, Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Achebe
Hybridity, Liminality, Subaltern
The Wretched of the Earth, Orientalism, Black Skin White Masks
The Empire Writes Back
Barry on PoCo
Colonial Mimicr

New Historicism
The New Historicism (1989)
Greenblatt, Cultural Poetics, Towards a Poetics of Culture (1987)
Foucault, Derrida and other influences
L Montrose on N.H
Renaissance Self -Fashinoning: From More to Shakespeare British Cultural Materialism

Semiotics
Charles Sanders Pierce
Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Eco, A Theory of Semiotics
Jameson, The Prison House of Language
Barthes S/Z

Film Studies
Major Film Movements
Cinema and Modernism
Ideology, Character, Plot, Semiotics and Genres
Editing
Intertext
Classic and New Hollywood
Key Concepts in Film Studies

Ecocriticism
Ecocriticism and Green Studies
British Romanticism and American Transcendentalism Nature Vs. Culture debates
Energy, Entropy, Symbiosis
Anthropocentrism and Patetic Fallacy
Ecocritical Readings and Linguistic Determinism

Evaluation process

A minimum of 10 out of 25 percent on assignments and 30 out of 75 percent on the final proctored exam are required to pass the certification course.

IIT Madras Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: How long does it take to complete the Literary Theory and Literary Criticism training?

The duration of this certification course is 8 weeks. During this period the students will gain in-depth knowledge in literary theory and literary criticism and all other aspects related to it.

2: What is the passing score to get the NPTEL certification?

The students must score a minimum of 10 out of 25 percent on assignments and 30 out of 75 percent on the final proctored examination.

3: What is the Literary Theory and Literary Criticism online course curriculum?

This course covers a comprehensive curriculum such as Greek and Roman models with an emphasis on classical qualities, Plato, Aristotle, Horace, early nineteenth-century Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, Lukacs, and socialist realism.

4: How to enroll in the NPTEL certification courses?

Go to the official website and click on the Login button Login with Google account and Sign In. Select the course, enter the details, click the Join button, fill in the details, and click the Join button.

5: Will I receive certification after completing the Literary Theory and Literary Criticism certification course?

Yes, upon completion of the certification course, the students will receive the certificates based on their performance in the assignments and examination.