Methodology of Literature

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COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE I: Literature: Constitutive elements and traits – literature as discourse -
difference from other discourses – The Politics of the Unconscious - Canon
Formation: Determination of taste – marginalization of works and authors – various
national literatures: English literatures: British, American, African, Indian, Canadian,
Australian etc. (see notes for details)
MODULE II: Textual approaches: New criticism, Formalism, Close Reading,
Deconstruction, Reader response – Psychoanalytic: Freud, Lacan – Archetypal:
Unconscious and universal patterns of repetition
MODULE III : Writing and reading: mediations by Gender, Class, Ideology etc.
Marginalization: of gender, working class, the dalits, aboriginals, sexual minorities.
The identity and assertion of the marginalized communities: Women, the Subaltern,
the colonized etc