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Introduction To Literary Theory

Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay · IIT Kanpur

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 01: Introduction: What is Literary Theory? Video
  2. Lecture 02: Literature & Mimesis: Plato (I) Video
  3. Lecture 03: Literature & Mimesis: Plato (II) Video
  4. Lecture 04: Literature and Mimesis: Aristotle (I) Video

Week 2

  1. Lecture 05: Literature & Mimesis: Aristotle II Video
  2. Lecture 06: Literature and the Sublime Video
  3. Lecture 07: Neoclassical Literary Theory Video
  4. Lecture 08: Literature and Romanticism I Video
  5. Lecture 09: Literature and Romanticism II Video

Week 3

  1. Lecture 10: New Criticism Video
  2. Lecture 11: Formalism Video
  3. Lecture 12: Dialogism I Video
  4. Lecture 13 Video
  5. Lecture 14: Reader Response Theory I: The Phenomenological Tradition Video

Week 4

  1. Lecture 15: Reader Response Theory II: Wolfgang Iser, Harold Bloom, and Stanley Fish Video
  2. Lecture 16: Structuralism I: Ferdinand de Saussure Video
  3. Lecture 17: Structuralism II: Claude Lévi-Strauss Video
  4. Lecture 18: Poststructuralism I: Roland Barthes Video
  5. Lecture 19: Poststructuralism II: Jacques Derrida Video

Week 5

  1. Lecture 20: Poststructuralism III: Michel Foucault Video
  2. Lecture 21: Marxist Literary Theory I: Marx and Brecht Video
  3. Lecture 22: Marxist Literary Theory II: Althusser and Gramsci Video
  4. Lecture 23: Marxist Literary Theory III: Raymond Williams Video
  5. Lecture 24: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (I) Video

Week 6

  1. Lecture 25: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (II) Video
  2. Lecture 26: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (III) Video
  3. Lecture 27: Literature and Psychoanalysis IV: Carl Jung Video
  4. Lecture 28: Literature and Psychoanalysis V: Jacques Lacan Video

Week 7

  1. Lecture 29: Feminism and Literature I: Mary Wollstonecraft Video
  2. Lecture 30: Feminism and Literature II: Woolf & de Beauvoir Video
  3. Lecture 31: Feminism and Literature III: Gynocriticism, Écriture Feminine, Judith Butler Video

Week 8

  1. Lecture 32: Modernism and Postmodernism Video
  2. Lecture 33: Postcolonial Theory I: Edward Said Video
  3. Lecture 34: Postcolonial Theory II: Bhabha and Spivak Video
  4. Lecture 35: Conclusion Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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