Unit-1 Introduction to Criticism 

What is criticism? Meaning, Definitions,
Functions, Methods of Criticism
Show your acquaintance with following critics-Philip Sydney, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, P B Shelley,
D.H Lawrence, F. R Leavis, I. A Richards.

Unit-2 Classical Criticism

• Plato’s concept of mimesis,
• Aristotle’s Concept of Tragedy
• Longinus’ Concept of Sublime

Unit–3 Romantic Criticism 

• Coleridge’s Theory of Imagination
• Preface to the Lyrical Ballads – William Wordsworth
• Concept of Style in Literature

Unit–4 Modern Criticism

• Touchstone Method- Mathew Arnold
• Tradition and Individual Talent – T. S Eliot
• Four Kinds of Meaning – I. A Richards
• Tension in Poetry – Allen Tat

Introduction to Life Narratives

What are Life Narratives? –Genres of Life Writings–
“Introduction” from The New Critical Idiom: Autobiography- Linda
Anderson

Autobiography

Unbreakable – (M C Mary Kom)

Memoirs & Diaries

Memoirs of my Working Life (Chapter6) – (Sir M. Visveshwaraya)

My Boyhood Days – (Rabindranath Tagore)

Biography & Biopics

The Desert Flower – (Waris Dirie)

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – directed by (Rakesh Mehra)

A Brief History of American Literature

Introduction to major American writers

Poems:

“O Captain! My Captain!” – (Walt Whitman)

“My Life had Stood” – (Emily Dickinson)

“A Loaded Gun” – (Emily Dickinson)

“Because I could not stop for Death”- (Emily Dickinson)

“The Road Not Taken” – (Robert Frost)

“Mending Wall”- (Robert Frost)

“Theme for English B” – (Langston Hughes)

“Mad Girl’s Love Song” – (Sylvia Plath)

Political Science DSCE9 (TXET BOOK)

Political Science DSCE10 (TXET BOOK)

Political Science DSCE11 (TXET BOOK)

Journalism 2 & 5 Marks (Important)

History (Notes)

Artificial Intelligence (Notes)

Organizational Behaviour (Notes)