Literary Criticism (Spring 2023)

 

Course Title: Literary Criticism

Course Code: ENG 311

Credit: 3

Total Marks: 100

Course Description:

This course aims at making the students understand and introduce with literary criticism through a detail study of some of the major texts of different ages.


·         Students will be able to identify and classify the ways of doing literary criticism.

·         Students will be able to produce critical analysis of a literary text.
  • Aristotle: Poetics
  • Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
  • Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
  • William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
  • Matthew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
  • T. S. Eliot: “Tradition and Individual Talent”
  • Terry Eagleton: “The Rise of English”

Recommended Reading

Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Schocken Books, 1969.

Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Riverhead Books, 1995.

Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton University Press, 2000.

Leitch, Vincent B., editor. The Norton Anthology of Theories and Criticism. 2nd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.

Lewis, C. S. An Experiment in Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Skill Level: Beginner