New IGNOU MEG-05 Help Book Literary Criticism and Theory in English – MA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – An Introduction
Literature, Criticism and Theory
Overview of Western Critical Thought
Twentieth Century Developments
The Function of Criticism
Indian Aesthetics
Resistance to Theory/How to Read a Reader

Block 2 – Classical Criticism
Features of Classical Criticism
Plato on Imitation and Art
Aristotle’s Theory of Imitation
Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-I
Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-II
Criticism as Dialogue

Block 3 – Romantic Criticism
Romanticism
Words Worth: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
P.B.Shelley: A Defiance of Poetry

Block 4 – New Criticism
I.A.Richards
T.S.Eliot
F.R.Leavis
John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks
W.K.Wimsatt
Conclusion

Block 5 – Marxist View of Literature
Marxism and Literature
Society and History: Marxist View
Representing and Critiquing Society: Superstructures
Commitment in Literature
Autonomy in Literature
Literature and Ideology

Block 6 – Feminist Theories
Features of Feminist Criticism
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of woman
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Elaine Showalter: ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’
Feminist Concerns in India Today

Block 7 – Deconstruction
Roots: New Criticism and Structuralism
Beginning Deconstruction
Implications
Deconstructing Poetry
Deconstructing Drama
Re-Assessing Deconstruction

Block 8 – Contemporary Literary Theory
Some Basic Issues
Postmodernism: The Basics
Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
Postcolonial Theory: Said, Spivak and Bhabha
Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism
Beginnings of Cultural Studies and New Historicism