NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to Literary Theory (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay


Lecture 1 - Introduction: What is Literary Theory?

Lecture 2 - Literature and Mimesis: Plato - I

Lecture 3 - Literature and Mimesis: Plato - II

Lecture 4 - Literature and Mimesis: Aristotle - I

Lecture 5 - Literature and Mimesis: Aristotle - II

Lecture 6 - Literature and the Sublime

Lecture 7 - Neoclassical Literary Theory

Lecture 8 - Literature and Romanticism - I

Lecture 9 - Literature and Romanticism - II

Lecture 10 - New Criticism

Lecture 11 - Formalism

Lecture 12 - Dialogism I

Lecture 13

Lecture 14 - Reader Response Theory I: The Phenomenological Tradition

Lecture 15 - Reader Response Theory II: Wolfgang Iser, Harold Bloom, and Stanley Fish

Lecture 16 - Structuralism I: Ferdinand de Saussure

Lecture 17 - Structuralism II: Claude Lévi-Strauss

Lecture 18 - Poststructuralism I: Roland Barthes

Lecture 19 - Poststructuralism II: Jacques Derrida

Lecture 20 - Poststructuralism III: Michel Foucault

Lecture 21 - Marxist Literary Theory I: Marx and Brecht

Lecture 22 - Marxist Literary Theory II: Althusser and Gramsci

Lecture 23 - Marxist Literary Theory III: Raymond Williams

Lecture 24 - Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud - I

Lecture 25 - Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud - II

Lecture 26 - Literature and Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud - III

Lecture 27 - Literature and Psychoanalysis IV: Carl Jung

Lecture 28 - Literature and Psychoanalysis V: Jacques Lacan

Lecture 29 - Feminism and Literature I: Mary Wollstonecraft

Lecture 30 - Feminism and Literature II: Woolf and de Beauvoir

Lecture 31 - Feminism and Literature III: Gynocriticism, Écriture Feminine, Judith Butler

Lecture 32 - Modernism and Postmodernism

Lecture 33 - Postcolonial Theory I: Edward Said

Lecture 34 - Postcolonial Theory II: Bhabha and Spivak

Lecture 35 - Conclusion