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MEG - 5 Literary Criticism and TheoryCONTENTS COVEREDBlock- 1 An IntroductionUnit-1 Literature, Criticism And TheoryUnit-2 Overview of Western Critical ThoughtUnit-3 Twentieth Century DevelopmentsUnit-4 The Function Of CriticismUnit-5 Indian AestheticsUnit-6 Resistance To Theory/How To Read A ReaderBlock- 2 Classical CriticismUnit-1 Features of Classical CriticismUnit-2 Plato on Imitation and ArtUnit-3 Aristotle’s Theory of ImitationUnit-4 Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-Part IUnit-5 Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy-Part IUnit-6 Criticism as DialogueBlock- 3 Romantic CriticismUnit-1 RomanticismUnit-2 Wordsworth : ‘Preface’ to the Lyrical BalladsUnit-3 Coleridge : Biographia LiterariaUnit-4 P.B. Shelley : A Defence of PoetryBlock- 4 New CriticismUnit-1 I.A. RichardsUnit-2 T.S. EliotUnit-3 F.R. LeavisUnit-4 John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth BrooksUnit-5 W.K. WimsattUnit-6 ConclusionBlock- 5 Marxist View Of LiteratureUnit-1 Marxism and LiteratureUnit-2 Society and History: Marxist ViewUnit-3 Representing and Critiquing Society: SuperstructuresUnit-4 Commitment in LiteratureUnit-5 Autonomy in LiteratureUnit-6 Literature and IdeologyBlock- 6 Feminist TheoriesUnit-1 Features of Feminist CriticismUnit-2 Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of WomanUnit-3 Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s OwnUnit-4 Simone De Beauvoir: The Second SexUnit-5 Elaine Showalter: ‘Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness’Unit-6 Feminist Concerns in India TodayBlock- 7 DeconstructionUnit-1 Roots: New Criticism and StructuralismUnit-2 Beginning DeconstructionUnit-3 ImplicationsUnit-4 Deconstructing PoetryUnit-5 Deconstructing DramaUnit-6 Re-assessing Deconstruction