Contemporary Critics and Critical Theories

Comprehensive Study Material for M.A., M.Phil. and NET aspirants

by : Dushyant Nimavat

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ISBN 978-81-7977-600-1

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pp. : 258 + vi

Contents :

J.M. Murry’s views on Pure Poetry

Allen Tate on ‘Tension in Poetry’

Lionel Trilling’s views in ‘Sense of the Past’

‘Intentional fallacy’ by Wimsatt and Beardsley.

Frank Kermode on ‘Dissociation of  Sensibility’

Role of a critic according to Helen Gardner.

Jonathan Culler’s views in ‘Structuralism and Literature’

A note on Modernism

A note on Sociological criticism

Post-modernism

Russian Formalism

Structuralism

John Crowe Ransom’s views on Criticism

T.S. Eliot and his ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’

I.A. Richards on ‘The Four Kinds of Meaning’

Marxist Criticism

Psycho-analytical School of Criticism

‘Stylistics’ by H.K. Widdowson.

Derrida’s theory of Deconstruction.

Roland Barthes’ ‘The Death of the Author’

Northrop Frye’s Archetypal Literary Criticism

Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialistic Philosophy

Roman Ingarden’s contribution to Phenomenology

Rene Welleck as a critic

Theodor W. Adorno as a Western Marxist Theorist and Philosopher

Louis Althusser as a Marxist philosopher

Antonio Gramsci as a Marxist Critic

Jacques Lacan as a Psychoanalytical Critic

Gayatri Spivak as a Post-colonial Theorist

Homi Bhabha as a Post-colonial Theorist

Edward Said’s views on ‘Orientalism’

Phenomenology

Ferdinand de Saussure’s Linguistic Theories

Frantz Fanon’s Theory of Decolonization

F.R. Leavis and Moral Formalism

Mikhail Bakhtin as a Russian Formalist

Georgy Lukacs as a Marxist Critic and Theoretician

Simone de Beavoir as a Feminist Philosopher and Critic

Germaine Greer as a Feminist

Julia Kristeva’s contribution to Feminism

Luce Irigaray and her contribution to Feminism

Toril Moi’s views in ‘What’s a Woman?’ and ‘Sexual /Textual Politics’

Bell Hooks’ Feminist Theory in ‘Aint I a woman?’

Critical concept and terms.

Major 20th century critics and their key texts

Dr. Dushyant Nimavat is an associate professor in English, Department of English, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad Gujarat. He has written 35 research papers and articles in journals and books. He has also 9 books to his credit. He has been associated with seven international research journals as a member of editorial board. He is also interested in motivational seminars and has conducted seminars for students in association with reputed print media houses like Indian Express and The Times of India. He is interested in comparative literature, diaspora and cultural writings, communication skills, translation studies and use of ICT in teaching. His doctoral study is on Diasporic sensibilities in the poetry of Meena Alexander, Sujata Bhatt, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Moniza Alvi.

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