University of Calicut
M.A. English Literatue
ENG3C10 Literary Criticism and Theory: Part 2
Syllabus
1. Structuralism: An Overview
Major Theorists:
Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude- Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Gerard Genette
Key Concepts: Structure, Sign, Signifier, Signified, Semiology, Semiotics, Langue and Parole, Mythemes, Structuralist Narratology.
Text for Detailed Study: Roland Barthes: Structuralist Activity
2. Post-Structuralism/ Deconstruction: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, The Yale School.
Key Concepts: Deconstruction of Sign, Decentering, Logocentrism, Aporia, Supplement, The Death of the Author, Knowledge, Power, Discourse.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Social Sciences”
3. Psychoanalysis: An Overview
Major Theorists: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan.
Key Concepts: Id, Ego, Superego, Dream Mechanism, Oedipus Complex, Unconscious, Mirror Stage, Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, Ego Formation and Constructions of Selfhood, Jouissance, Unconscious is structured like a Language.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Lacan: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
4. Feminism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Virginia Woolf, Kate Millet, Elaine Showalter, Helene Cixous, Adrienne Rich.
Key Concepts: Gynocriticism, Eccriture Feminine, Womanism, The Language Problem in Feminism, Marxist Feminism, French Feminism, Lesbian Feminism, Black Feminism, Dalit Feminism, Postfeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics
5. Cultural Materialism/ New Historicism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Raymond Williams, Jonathan Dollimore, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose.
Key Concepts: Neo-Marxism, Culture: New Definitions, Thin and Thick Descriptions, Textuality and Historicity, Texts, Contexts and Co-texts, Rereading the Renaissance and Shakespeare, The Politics of Representation and Power.
Text for Detailed Study: Louis Montrose: “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture”
6. Postcolonialism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Benedict Anderson.
Key Concepts: Crtique of Eurocentrism and Universalism, Decolonization, National Consciousness, Critiquing Nationalism, Postnationalism, Imagined Communities, Orientalism, Strategic Essentialism, Subaltern Studies, Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry.
Text for Detailed Study: Edward Said: “Jane Austen and Empire”
7. Ecocriticism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jonathan Bate, CheryllGlotfelty, Laurence Coupe, Patrick D Murphy, William Rueckert.
Key Concepts: Anthropocentrism, Shallow Ecology vs Deep Ecology, The Crisis of Humanism, Nature/Culture, Green Studies, Environmental Imagination, Ecofeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Cheryll Glotfelty: “Introduction: Literary Studies in an age of Environmental Crisis” (From The Ecocriticism Reader)
8.Critiquing Theory: An Overview
Text for Detailed Study: Graham Good: “Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
Module 1. Structuralism: An Overview
Major Theorists:
Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude- Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Gerrard Genette
Key Concepts: Structure, Sign, Signifier, Signified, Semiology, Semiotics, Langue and Parole, Mythemes, Structuralist Narratology.
Text for Detailed Study: Roland Barthes: “Structuralist Activity”
Materials
Ferdinand de Saussure
30 Minutes Lecture by Louis Markos, Houston Baptist University
Structuralism and Deconstruction
Saussure and Structuralism
Structuralism
Literary Criticism and Theory in the Twentieth Century
Key Theories of Ferdinand de Saussure
Ebooks
Author(s): Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (trans.)
Publisher: Columbia University Press, Year: 2011
Saussure: a guide for the perplexed
Author(s): Bouissac, Paul; Saussure, Ferdinand de
Series: Guides for the perplexed
Publisher: Continuum, Year: 2010
The Cambridge Companion to Saussure (Cambridge Companions)
Author(s): Carol Sanders
Series: Cambridge Companions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2004
Author(s): Roy Harris, Talbot J. Taylor
Year: 1997
Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein: How to Play Games with Words (History of Linguistic Thought)
Author(s): Roy Harris
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1990
Schools of Thought: The Development of Linguistics from Bopp to Saussure
Author(s): Olga Amsterdamska (auth.)
Series: Sociology of the Sciences Monographs 6
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Year: 1987
Author(s): E. F. K. Koerner (auth.)
Series: Schriften zur Linguistik 7
Publisher: Vieweg Teubner Verlag, Year: 1973
Re-reading Saussure: The Dynamics of Signs in Social Life
Author(s): Paul J. Thibault
Series: Amer.Civil Liberties Union Handbook
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1996
Author(s): R. Harris and E. Komatsu (Auth.)
Series: 1910-1911
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd, Pergamon Press Inc, Year: 1993
Author(s): John E. Joseph
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2012
Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory
Author(s): Raymond Tallis (auth.)
Series: Language, Discourse, Society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 1988
Author(s): Jonathan Culler
Publisher: Afa Yayınları, Year: 1985
Author(s): Ernst Frideryk Konrad Koerner
Publisher: Simon Fraser University, Year: 1971
Concept of Structuralism: A Critical Analysis
Author(s): Philip Pettit
Publisher: Univ of California Pr, Year: 1977
Structuralism and Semiotics (New Accents)
Author(s): Terence Hawkes
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2003
Foundations of Structuralism: Critique of Levi-Strauss and the Structuralist Movement
Author(s): Simon Clarke
Publisher: Harvester P, Year: 1981
Author(s): John Sturrock
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2003
History of Structuralism: The Sign Sets, 1967-Present
Author(s): Francois Dosse
Year: 1997
Structuralism：The Art of the Intelligible
Author(s): Peter Caws
Year: 1988
Jstor Article
Structuralism as a Method of Literary Criticism
Author(s): Isaiah Smithson
Source: College English, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Oct., 1975), pp. 145-159
Published by: National Council of Teachers of English
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/375060
Text for Detailed Study: Roland Barthes Structuralist Activity
Barthes Structuralist Activity Essay
Roland Barthes The Structuralist Activity Essay in a Nutshell
Claude- Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi Strauss’ Structural Anthropology
Key Theories of Claude Levi Strauss
Ebooks
The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss
Author(s): Boris Wiseman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2009
Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics
Author(s): Boris Wiseman
Series: Ideas in Context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2007
Author(s): Simon Clarke
Levi-Strauss Today: An Introduction to Structural Anthropology
Author(s): Robert Deliege
Publisher: Berg Publishers, Year: 2004
Author(s): Claude Levi-strauss
Publisher: Basic Books, Year: 1974
Gerard Genette
Structuralist Narratology
Gerard Genette and Structural Narratology
Ebooks
Gérard Genette and the Pleasures of Poetics
Author(s): Gerald Prince
Source: Narrative, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 2010), pp. 3-7
Published by: Ohio State University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25609380
Gérard Genette’s Evolving Narrative Poetics
Author(s): John Pier
Source: Narrative, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan., 2010), pp. 8-18
Published by: Ohio State University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25609381
Rhetoric, Structuralism, and Figurative Discourse: Gérard Genette’s Concept of Rhetoric
Author(s): Christopher Harlos
Source: Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1986), pp. 209-223
Published by: Penn State University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40237485
Module 2 Post-Structuralism/ Deconstruction: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, The Yale School.
Key Concepts: Deconstruction of Sign, Decentering, Logocentrism, Aporia, Supplement, The Death of the Author, Knowledge, Power, Discourse.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Social Sciences”
Materials
Jacques Derrida
Structuralism and Deconstruction
Ebooks
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Derrida on Deconstruction
Author(s): Barry Stocker
Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2006
Author(s): Jim Powell, Van Howell
Publisher: For Beginners, Year: 2007
Author(s): Jim Powell, Joe Lee
Publisher: For Beginners, Year: 2008
Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
Author(s): Joshua Kates
Series: SPEP
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Year: 2005
Author(s): Hugh J. Silverman
Series: Continental Philosophy
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1989
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
Author(s): Jonathan D. Culler
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Year: 1983
Deconstruction and Critical Theory
Author(s): Peter V. Zima
Publisher: Continuum, Year: 2002
The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy
Author(s): Martin McQuillan
Year: 2007
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
Author(s): John D. Caputo
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Publisher: Fordham University Press, Year: 1996
Philosophy Beside Itself: On Deconstruction and Modernism
Author(s): Stephen W. Melville
Series: Theory and History of Literature 27
Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press, Year: 1986
The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America (Theory & History of Literature)
Author(s): Wlad Godzich, Wallace Martin, Jonathan Arac
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, Year: 1983
Author(s): Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jaques Derrida, Geoffrey H. Hartman, J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Year: 1979
Politics of Deconstruction: A New Introduction to Jacques Derrida
Author(s): Susanne Lüdemann
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Year: 2014
Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading
Author(s): G. Douglas Atkins
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, Year: 1983
Author(s): Rajnath (eds.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 1989
Author(s): Julian Wolfreys (auth.)
Series: Transitions
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK, Year: 1998
Author(s): Kathleen Wheeler (auth.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 1997
Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Essay
Analysis of Derrida’s Structure, Sign and Play in The Discourse of Human Sciences
Roland Barthes
Ebooks
Author(s): Graham Allen
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2003
Roland Barthes, Structuralism and After
Author(s): Annette Lavers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Year: 1982
Critical Essays on Roland Barthes
Author(s): Diana Knight (Editor)
Series: Critical Essays on World Literature Series
Publisher: Cengage Gale, Year: 2000
Roland Barthes (Or the profession of cultural studies)
Author(s): Martin McQuillan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2011
Michel Foucault
Ebooks
Author(s): Sara Mills
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2003
Author(s): Barry Smart
Series: Key Sociologists
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2002
The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault
Author(s): Lisa Downing
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2008
The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
Author(s): Mark G.E. Kelly
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2008
Author(s): David Macey
Series: Reaktion Books – Critical Lives
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Year: 2005
Author(s): Clare O’Farrell
Series: Core Cultural Theorists
Publisher: SAGE, Year: 2005
Module 3. Psychoanalysis: An Overview
Major Theorists: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan.
Key Concepts: Id, Ego, Superego, Dream Mechanism, Oedipus Complex, Unconscious, Mirror Stage, Imaginary, Symbolic and Real, Ego Formation and Constructions of Selfhood, Jouissance, Unconscious is structured like a Language.
Text for Detailed Study: Jacques Lacan: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
Articles
https://literariness.org/2016/04/16/freudian-psychoanalysis/
Text for Detailed Study
Essay pdf
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
Ebooks
- International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Alain De Mijolla, A. De Mijolla
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA, Year: 2005
(28MB) - The Meaning Of The Dream In Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Rachel B. Blass
Series: Suny Series in Dream Studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2002
(1MB) - A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Short Introductions to the Therapy Professions)
Author(s): Jane Milton, Caroline Polmear, Julia Fabricius
Year: 2004
(1MB) - Freud, psychoanalysis, and symbolism
Author(s): Agnes Petocz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 1999
(2MB) - An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Dylan Evans
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1996
(2MB) - The Origin And Development Of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, Year: 2007
(194KB) - A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
Author(s): Bruce Fink
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Year: 1999
(86MB) - Psychoanalysis: From Practice to Theory
Author(s): Jorge Canestri
Series: Whurr Series In Psychoanalysis
Publisher: Wiley, Year: 2006
(1MB) - The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics
Author(s): Yannis Stavrakakis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, Year: 2008
(2MB) - Surplus: Spinoza, Lacan
Author(s): A. Kiarina Kordela
Series: Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2007
(1MB) - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, Alan Sheridan
Series: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 11
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Year: 1998
(4MB) - Rereading Freud: Psychoanalysis Through Philosophy
Author(s): Jon Mills
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2004
(1MB) - Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Richard C. Friedman, Jennifer I. Downey
Publisher: Columbia University Press, Year: 2002
(14MB) - Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism
Author(s): Agnes Petocz
Year: 1999
(1MB) - Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
Author(s): Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Feedbooks
- Psychoanalysis in a New Light
Author(s): Gunnar Karlsson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2010
(1MB) - Sublimation (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Kalu Singh
Publisher: Totem Books, Year: 1997
(1MB) - The Superego (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Priscilla Roth
Year: 1997
(2MB) - Anxiety (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Ricky Emanuel
Year: 1996
(1MB) - Libido (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Roger Kennedy
Publisher: Totem Books, Year: 1997
(1MB) - Phobia (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Ivan Ward
Year: 1997
(1MB) - The Unconscious (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Phil Mollon
Publisher: Totem Books, Year: 1996
(1MB) - Phantasy (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Julia Segal
Year: 1996
(1MB) - Castration (Ideas in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): Ivan Ward
Publisher: Totem Books, Year: 1999
(1MB) - Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Ellie Ragland-Sullivan
Year: 1987
(23MB) - Freud and Psychoanalysis (Pocket Essential series)
Author(s): Nick Rennison
Year: 2002
(1MB) - Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Dany Nobus
Year: 1999
(5MB) - Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity
Author(s): Sara Beardsworth
Series: SUNY Series in Gender Theory
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2004
(1MB) - The Future of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Chessick Richard D.
Year: 2007
(1MB) - Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Author(s): Russell Grigg
Series: Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2008
(1MB) - Freud: A Modern Reader (Whurr Series in Psychoanalysis)
Author(s): R. Perelberg
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2005
(19MB) - Psychoanalysis: Its Evolution and Development
Author(s): M. Asch
Year: 2008
(11MB) - Exhibitionism: Ideas in Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Brett Kahr
Year: 1997
(1MB) - Freud: A Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Nandor Fodor, Frank Gaynor (editors)
Year: 2004
(14MB) - Introducing Psychoanalysis: Essential Themes and Topics
Author(s): Susan Budd
Year: 2005
(7MB) - Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory (Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory)
Author(s): Malcolm Bowie
Year: 1993
(4MB) - Understanding Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Matthew Sharpe, Joanne Faulkner
Publisher: Acumen, Year: 2008
(4MB) - Introducing Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Ivan Ward
Publisher: Totem Books, Year: 1996
(6MB) - The Genealogy of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Michel Henry
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Year: 1993
(14MB) - Textbook of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Glen O. Gabbard, Bonnie E. Litowitz, Paul Williams
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Year: 2011
(45MB) - Critical Essays on Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Stanley Rachman (Eds.)
Year: 1963
(4MB) - The Language of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, Jean LaPlanche
Series: Maresfield Library
Publisher: Karnac Books, Year: 1996
(75MB) - Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought
Author(s): Sutherland, J.D. Sutherland, Sylvia Payne
Series: Maresfield Library
Publisher: Karnac Books, Year: 1987
(3MB) - Approaching psychoanalysis : an introductory course
Author(s): Smith, David Livingstone; Freud, Sigmund
Publisher: Karnac Books, Year: 1999
(11MB) - Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory: Thresholds: Thresholds
Author(s): James Donald (eds.)
Series: Communications and Culture
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK, Year: 1991
(21MB)
Module 4. Feminism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Virginia Woolf, Kate Millet, Elaine Showalter, Helene Cixous, Adrienne Rich.
Key Concepts: Gynocriticism, Eccriture Feminine, Womanism, The Language Problem in Feminism, Marxist Feminism, French Feminism, Lesbian Feminism, Black Feminism, Dalit Feminism, Postfeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Elaine Showalter: Towards a Feminist Poetics
Audio Lectures
Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Women’s Rights in a Man’s World
Ebooks
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf
Author(s): Jane Goldman
Series: Cambridge introductions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2006
Virginia Woolf (Critical Heritage Series)
Author(s): Robin Majumdar, Allen McLaurin
Series: Critical Heritage
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1997
Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader
Author(s): Anne E. Fernald
Year: 2006
Author(s): Julia Briggs
Year: 2006
Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context) (Oxford World’s Classics)
Author(s): Michael Whitworth
Year: 2005
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings
Author(s): Eileen Barrett, Patricia Cramer
Series: Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature
Publisher: NYU Press, Year: 1997
Author(s): Edward Bishop (auth.)
Series: Macmillan Modern Novelists
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK, Year: 1991
Virginia Woolf A Literary Life
Author(s): John Mepham (auth.)
Series: Macmillan Literary Lives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 1991
Author(s): Jessica Schiff Berman (ed.)
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Year: 2016
A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing
Author(s): Elaine Showalter
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Year: 1977
Feminism Ebooks Visit Literariness.org/Feminism (200 Ebooks)
- Feminism A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Margaret Walters
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2005
(3MB) - Introducing Feminism
Author(s): Cathia Jenainati
Publisher: Totem Books, Year: 2003
(7MB)
- Understanding Feminism
Author(s): Peta Bowden; Jane Mummery
Series: Understanding Movements in Modern Thought
Year: 2009
(4MB) - Politics and Feminism
Author(s): Barbara Arneil
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 1999
(13MB) - Why Feminism Matters: Feminism Lost and Found
Author(s): Kath Woodward, Sophie Woodward
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2009
(1MB)
- Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis
Author(s): Hiadeh Moghissi
Publisher: Zed Books, Year: 1999
(7MB)
- Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
(81MB)
Author(s): Juliet Mitchell, Sangay K Mishra
Publisher: Basic Books, Year: 2000 - Feminism (Short Histories of Big Ideas)
Author(s): June Hannam
Publisher: Longman, Year: 2006
(1MB) - The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy
Author(s): Miranda Fricker, Jennifer Hornsby
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2000
(16MB) - The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism (Routledge Companions)
Author(s): Sarah Gamble
Series: Routledge Companions
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2001
(3MB) - Feminism (Pocket Essential series)
Author(s): Susan Osborne
Year: 2001
(1MB) - Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms
Author(s): Ann Brooks
Year: 1997
(1MB) - lack Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism
Author(s): Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2017
(3MB) - Radical Feminism
Author(s): Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, Anita Rapone
Publisher: Quadrangle Books, Year: 1973
(102MB) - Radical Feminism Today
Author(s): Denise Thompson
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, Year: 2001
(1MB) - Feminism
Author(s): Lena Gemzöe
Series: Bildas Ismer
Publisher: Bilda Förlag & Idé, Year: 2002
(3MB) - Philosophy: Feminism
Author(s): Carol Hay (ed.)
Series: Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks
Publisher: Macmillan Reference, Year: 2017
(6MB) - A Brief History of Feminism
Author(s): Patu and Antje Schrupp
Publisher: MIT Press, Year: 2017
(7MB) - A Companion to Gender Studies
Author(s): Kobayashi, Audrey Lynn; Goldberg, David Theo; Essed, Philomena
Series: Blackwell companions in cultural studies 8
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2009
(61MB) - Lesbian and Gay Studies
Author(s): Jan Willem Duyvendak, Theo Sandfort, Judith Schuyf, Jeffrey Weeks
Year: 2000
(5MB)
Towards a Feminist Poetics Essay pdf
Towards Feministic Poetics Elaine Key Points PDF
Click on this link for key ideas of feminist criticism (MA Syllabus based material only)
Module 5.
Cultural Materialism/ New Historicism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Raymond Williams, Jonathan Dollimore, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose.
Key Concepts: Neo-Marxism, Culture: New Definitions, Thin and Thick Descriptions, Textuality and Historicity, Texts, Contexts and Co-texts, Rereading the Renaissance and Shakespeare, The Politics of Representation and Power.
Text for Detailed Study: Louis Montrose: Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture
Articles
Ebooks
Author(s): Fred Inglis
Year: 1998
Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams (Cultural Politics)
Author(s): Christopher Prendergast (editor)
Series: Cultural Politics volume 9
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, Year: 1995
Raymond Williams’s Sociology of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction
Author(s): Paul Jones (auth.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 2006
Author(s): Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Payne
Series: Blackwell Readers
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2005
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Author(s): Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, Year: 2005
Biographical Dictionary of Neo-Marxism
This Dictionary comprehensively surveys major twentieth-century neo-Marxian (non-orthodox) thinkers and activists throughout the world. This thorough research aid contains over 200 biographical essays which include pertinent biographical details; a summary of the entrant’s significant and unique contributions to neo-Marxian theory and practice; and a bibliography of relevant primary and secondary works.
Author(s): Robert A. Gorman (editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press, Year: 1985
Text for Detailed Study: Louis Montrose: Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture
Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture Essay PDF
Pramod K Nayar Re-reading the Renaissance A Short History of English Literature
Nayar, P. K. (n.d.). Re-reading the Renaissance. A Short History of English Literature, 106–110. doi:10.1017/upo9788175968851.006
Module 6. Postcolonialism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Benedict Anderson.
Key Concepts: Crtique of Eurocentrism and Universalism, Decolonization, National Consciousness, Critiquing Nationalism, Postnationalism, Imagined Communities, Orientalism, Strategic Essentialism, Subaltern Studies, Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry.
Text for Detailed Study: Edward Said: Jane Austen and Empire
Articles
For More Articles Visit https://literariness.org/category/postcolonialism/
Ebooks
- Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Author(s): Robert J. C. Young
Series: Very Short Introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, Year: 2003
(18 MB) - Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction
Author(s): Robert J.C. Young
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2001
(95 MB) - A Companion to Postcolonial Studies
Author(s): Henry Schwarz, Sangeeta Ray
Series: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2000
(3 MB) - Colonialism Postcolonialism (New Critical Idiom)
Author(s): Ania Loomba
Year: 1998
(21MB) - Geographies of Postcolonialism
Author(s): Dr Joanne Sharp
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, Year: 2008
(3MB) - Beginning Postcolonialism (Beginnings)
Author(s): John McLeod
Year: 2000
(11MB) - Understanding Postcolonialism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)
Author(s): Jane Hiddleston Understanding Postcolonialism
Year: 2009
(10 MB) - Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process
Author(s): Ato Quayson
Year: 2000
(38MB) - Imperialism and Postcolonialism (History: Concepts, Theories and Practice)
Author(s): Barbara Bush
Publisher: Longman, Year: 2006
(6MB) - Spivak and Postcolonialism: Exploring Allegations of Textuality
Author(s): Taoufiq Sakhkhane (auth.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 2012
(1MB) - Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakAuthor(s): Stephen Morton
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2003 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live TheoryAuthor(s): Mark Sanders
Publisher: Continuum, Year: 2006 - Subaltern StudiesAuthor(s): Ranajit Guha (Ed.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 1982 - Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of NationalismAuthor(s): Benedict Anderson
Publisher: Verso, Year: 1991 - Edward SaidAuthor(s): Bill Ashcroft, Pal Ahluwalia
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2001 - Edward SaidAuthor(s): H. Aram Veeser
Series: Critical Thinkers
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2010 - Edward Said and the Post-ColonialAuthor(s): Bill Ashcroft, Hussein Kadhim
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc, Year: 2002
Visit Literariness.org/Postcolonialism for 41 Ebooks
Text for Detailed Study: Edward Said: Jane Austen and Empire
Edward Said Jane Austen and Empire Essay
Jane Austen and Empire by Edward Said Key Points
Module 7 Ecocriticism: An Overview
Major Theorists: Jonathan Bate, Cheryll Glotfelty, Laurence Coupe, Patrick D Murphy, William Rueckert.
Key Concepts: Anthropocentrism, Shallow Ecology vs Deep Ecology, The Crisis of Humanism, Nature/Culture, Green Studies, Environmental Imagination, Ecofeminism.
Text for Detailed Study: Cheryll Glotfelty: Introduction: Literary Studies in an age of Environmental Crisis (From The Ecocriticism Reader)
Articles
Ebooks
- Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom)
Author(s): Greg Garrard
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2004
(1MB) - The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology
Author(s): Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, Year: 1996
(28MB) - Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures
Author(s): Todd A. Borlik
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2010
(9MB) - Postcolonial ecocriticism : literature, animals, environment
Author(s): Graham Huggan; Helen Tiffin
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2010
(2MB) - Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting
Author(s): Ashton Nichols
Series: Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2011
(8MB) - Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment
Author(s): Glen A. Love
Series: Under the Sign of Nature
Publisher: University of Virginia Press, Year: 2003
(2MB) - Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures
Author(s): Donelle N. Dreese
Series: American Indian Studies volume 15
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, Year: 2002
(2MB) - Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept
Author(s): Timothy Clark
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, Year: 2015
(4MB) - Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman
Author(s): Helena Feder
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co, Year: 2014
(1MB) - Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting
Author(s): Ashton Nichols (auth.)
Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, Year: 2011
(3MB) - Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies
Author(s): Greg Garrard (auth.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 2012
(1MB) - Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies
Author(s): Robert T. Tally Jr, Christine M. Battista (eds.)
Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, Year: 2016
(3MB) - Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity
Author(s): Christopher Schliephake
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher: Lexington Books, Year: 2016
(27MB) - International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism
Author(s): Greta Gaard, Simon C. Estok, Serpil Oppermann
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2013
(3MB) - Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination
Author(s): John Ryan
Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2018
(2MB) - Material Ecocriticism
Author(s): Serenella Iovino; Serpil Oppermann (eds.)
Publisher: Indiana University Press, Year: 2014
(9MB) - Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
Author(s): Richard H. Grove
Series: Studies in Environment and History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 1996
(30MB) - Ecofeminism
Author(s): Mies, Maria; Salleh, Ariel; Shiva, Vandana
Series: Critique influence change.
Publisher: Zed Books, Year: 2014
(62MB) - Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature
Author(s): Karen J. Warren
Publisher: Indiana University Press, Year: 1997
(3MB) - The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy
Author(s): Catriona Sandilands
Year: 1999
(1MB) - Ecofeminism and Globalization: Exploring Culture, Context, and Religion
Author(s): Heather Eaton, Lois Ann Lorentzen
Year: 2003
(15MB) - Ecofeminism (Ethics And Action)
Author(s): Greta Gaard
Year: 1993
(17MB) - Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction
Author(s): Dawne McCance
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2013
(3MB) - The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre
Author(s): Nik Taylor, Richard Twine
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2014
(2MB) - Humans, Animals, and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies
Author(s): Nik Taylor
Publisher: Lantern Books, Year: 2013
(1MB) - Routledge Handbook of Human-animal Studies
Author(s): Garry Marvin, Susan McHugh (eds.)
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2014
(4MB) - The Palgrave International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies
Author(s): Jennifer Maher, Harriet Pierpoint, Piers Beirne (eds.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 2017
(5MB) - Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and The Environmental TraditionAuthor(s): Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 1991 - Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature MatteredAuthor(s): Bill Devall; George Sessions
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Year: 2001For More Ebooks on Ecocriticism, Visit Literariness.org/Ecocriticism
Text for Detailed Study: Cheryll Glotfelty: Introduction: Literary Studies in an age of
Environmental Crisis (From The Ecocriticism Reader)
Module 8.Critiquing Theory: An Overview
Text for Detailed Study: Graham Good: Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
To Read Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism See Chapter 5, Pages 63-73 of Humanism Betrayed: Theory, Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
Post Theory New Directions in Criticism
Author(s): Martin Mcquillan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Twentieth Century British Literature Post-1940 Scholarly Materials
University of Kannur M.A. English Literature Scholarly Materials
Categories: Literary Theory
Analysis of Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion 
Analysis of Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing! 
Analysis of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters 
English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century
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