8/11/2019 literature and historical of world literary
writers
2/3
Krutch, Joseph Wood. American Drama Since 1918 . New York:
George Braziller, 1957
Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms .
Oxford: Oxford University Press,2001.
Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and
Cultural Theory . New Delhi:Viva Books, 2008.
Drabble, Margaret and Stringer, Jenny. The Concise Oxford
Companion to English Literature .Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2007.
Course Plan
Lecture
No.
Learning Objectives Topics to be CoveredReferenceto
1-4 Introduction of some of the popularliterary terms and
movements.
History and Types of novelHistory and types of dramaLiterary
movementsLiterary Terms
Muller, G.Hand J.AWilliams
5-9 Various types of criticisms inLiterature
Feminist, Marxist, Postmodern,Reader Response
theory,Postcolonial, Psychoanalytic andDeconstruction.
M.HAbrahms.
10-16 A brief history of Indian EnglishLiterature.
Introduction of gender relatedcritical theories.
Representation of Women infiction.
Reading andanalysis of
selectedworks.
17-21 Introduction to Diasporic literature Discussion of the
themes andmotifs generally used in diasporicliterature.
Reading andanalysis of
selectedworks
22-29 Introduction to partition novels An analysis of selected
Partitionnovels Reading and
analysis ofselectedworks
