'Literary Theory-1' is a course offered in Eight Semester of B. A. (Bachelor of Arts) English Language and Literature program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
To familiarize students with the evolution of modern literary theory by introducing seminal texts; to enable them to read literary works critically and to enhance critical sensibility.
Unit 1
Linguistics/Semiotics
Saussure “Object of Study”.
M A K Halliday “Language in a Changing World”.
Unit 2
Formalism
Shklovsky “Art as Technique”
Jakobson “Linguistics and Poetics”
Unit 3
Structuralism/Post Structuralism
Gennette “Structuralism and Literary Criticism”
Derrida “Structure, Sign and Play”
Barthes “Death of the Author”
Unit 4
Gender Studies
Adrienne Rich: “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian existence”
Judith Butler: From “Bodies That Matter”
Unit 5
Cultural Studies
Raymond Williams “Culture is Ordinary”
Theodore Adorno: From “On Lyric Poetry and Society”
Berger, John. “Ways of Seeing”