Literary Criticism

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Literary Criticism
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Swayam
Overview

Unraveling Texts: Analyzing, Interpreting, and Debating Literature's Layers in Contemporary and Historical Contexts

Duration	15 weeks
Start from	Start Now
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
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Credential	Certificate

Literary Criticism
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Course details

Who should do this course?

Academics and Scholars
Literary Enthusiasts and Avid Readers
Writers and Aspiring Authors

What are the course deliverables?

Students will be able to dissect and analyze literary texts, identifying themes, motifs, symbols, and stylistic elements
Students will demonstrate the ability to apply various literary theories (e.g., structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, feminism, post-colonialism) to interpret texts
Students will be proficient in finding, evaluating, and synthesizing scholarly sources related to literary criticism
Students will be able to engage with ongoing scholarly debates and contribute original insights to the field

More about this course

The endeavour of this course is to familiarise the under-graduate student with the diverse critical practices from Romanticism in the nineteenth century and the tenets of T.S.Eliot, through New Criticism in the twentieth century , moving ahead with Feminism from its inception to the third world and gender expressions in the twentieth century
The intention is to help students understand the theories, critically assess works of art and apply them in literary works
For this purpose, the module has been divided into segments, where the literary essay or book is divided into sub-divisions so that students can comprehend the theories and the related study materials with ease

Literary Criticism
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Swayam
Curriculum

Week 1

Introduction to Romanticism

Week 2

Preface to Lyrical Ballads- William Wordsworth- Section 1

Week 3

Preface to Lyrical Ballads- William Wordsworth- Section 2

Week 4

Biographia Literaria- Section 1- S.T.Coleridge

Week 5

Biographia Literaria-Section 2 -S.T.Coleridge

Week 6

Modern Fiction- Virginia Woolf

Week 7

Tradition and the Individual Talent- T.S..Eliot

Week 8

The Function of Criticism- T..S..Eliot

Week 9

Principles of Literary Criticism-.I.A.Richards

Week 10

Practical Criticism- I.A. Richards

Week 11

The Heresy of Paraphrase- Cleanth Brooks

Week 12

The Language of Paradox- Cleanth Brooks

Week 13

Feminism – Maggie Humm

Literary Criticism
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Swayam
Faculty details

Dr. C.G.SHYAMALA

An Assistant Professor of English and a Research Supervisor in the Post-graduate Department of English and Research Centre for Comparative Studies, Mercy College, Palakkad, Kerala, Dr. C.G.Shyamala is interested in teaching, and preparing and delivering e-content modules. She has authored several books and officiates as a Resource person in seminars, webinars and conferences. She is a member of the Editorial Board of selected journals, publishes research papers, and serves as a reviewer in select journals on English literature. She is the course coordinator of two MOOCs, Literary Criticism and Modern European Drama, which ran successfully in 2019 and 2021 respectively. Moreover, she is a lover of music and a sports enthusiast.