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Quick Facts
| 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 (IITM) |
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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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.