# Introduction To Literary Theory

- Institution: IIT Kanpur
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109104135)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109104135)
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## Lectures

1. [Lecture 01: Introduction: What is Literary Theory?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/8b153bc81957) (Video)
2. [Lecture 02: Literature & Mimesis: Plato (I)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/a287b4107ee1) (Video)
3. [Lecture 03: Literature & Mimesis: Plato (II)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/27b0d991781a) (Video)
4. [Lecture 04: Literature and Mimesis: Aristotle (I)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/8cb8403befbd) (Video)
5. [Lecture 05: Literature & Mimesis: Aristotle II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/6f3ec936a77c) (Video)
6. [Lecture 06: Literature and the Sublime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/b8a4fbf8c4c4) (Video)
7. [Lecture 07: Neoclassical Literary Theory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/c83880480812) (Video)
8. [Lecture 08: Literature and Romanticism I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/2c8c85803c38) (Video)
9. [Lecture 09: Literature and Romanticism II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/571cc972cef3) (Video)
10. [Lecture 10: New Criticism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/49ed93970606) (Video)
11. [Lecture 11: Formalism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/6664f83884c7) (Video)
12. [Lecture 12: Dialogism I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/1f7c1e471fae) (Video)
13. [Lecture 13](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/06684e4c22d2) (Video)
14. [Lecture 14: Reader Response Theory I: The Phenomenological Tradition](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/f6429e5be369) (Video)
15. [Lecture 15: Reader Response Theory II: Wolfgang Iser, Harold Bloom, and Stanley Fish](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/992229e61f64) (Video)
16. [Lecture 16: Structuralism I: Ferdinand de Saussure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/9eebf804fc25) (Video)
17. [Lecture 17: Structuralism II: Claude Lévi-Strauss](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/a65a90e1d84a) (Video)
18. [Lecture 18: Poststructuralism I: Roland Barthes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/47118e21fc3c) (Video)
19. [Lecture 19: Poststructuralism II: Jacques Derrida](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/ae7b7e0258f6) (Video)
20. [Lecture 20: Poststructuralism III: Michel Foucault](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/4f075ccc24fa) (Video)
21. [Lecture 21: Marxist Literary Theory I: Marx and Brecht](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/4f814543dd1b) (Video)
22. [Lecture 22: Marxist Literary Theory II: Althusser and Gramsci](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/d969bfe25932) (Video)
23. [Lecture 23: Marxist Literary Theory III: Raymond Williams](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/b2134aa0b2c1) (Video)
24. [Lecture 24: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (I)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/f038819ac0d3) (Video)
25. [Lecture 25: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (II)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/4244119b93e4) (Video)
26. [Lecture 26: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud (III)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/93206a2b8579) (Video)
27. [Lecture 27: Literature and Psychoanalysis IV: Carl Jung](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/95c381294259) (Video)
28. [Lecture 28: Literature and Psychoanalysis V: Jacques Lacan](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/de7bc26ae184) (Video)
29. [Lecture 29: Feminism and Literature I: Mary Wollstonecraft](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/fe21e59167b3) (Video)
30. [Lecture 30: Feminism and Literature II: Woolf & de Beauvoir](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/5b3a2c426d72) (Video)
31. [Lecture 31: Feminism and Literature III: Gynocriticism, Écriture Feminine, Judith Butler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/392b6878edac) (Video)
32. [Lecture 32: Modernism and Postmodernism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/a8d9d343fce4) (Video)
33. [Lecture 33: Postcolonial Theory I: Edward Said](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/6d08b5e6fcbf) (Video)
34. [Lecture 34: Postcolonial Theory II: Bhabha and Spivak](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/520e2b7db810) (Video)
35. [Lecture 35: Conclusion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109104135/d2021b800563) (Video)