Course Title: 20th Century Literary Theory
Mode: Recorded Class
Instructor: Monami Mukherjee
Duration: 11 Sessions
Course Structure:
Class 1: Introduction, Overview, and Historical Timeline
Class 2: Psychoanalysis – Freud and Jung
Class 3: Psychoanalysis – Lacan and Kristeva
Class 4: Existentialism – Nietzsche and Heidegger
Class 5: Existentialism – Sartre and Camus (Absurdism)
Class 6: Marxism – Marx, Engels, Gramsci, and Althusser
Class 7: Formalism and Structuralism – Shklovsky, Jakobson, Saussure, Barthes
Class 8: Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism – Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard
Class 9: New Historicism – Key Concepts and Terminology
Class 10: Feminism – Key Concepts and Terminology
Class 11: Course Wrap-up and Student Presentations
Course Materials:
Recorded Video Lectures
Presentation Slide Decks (PDF)
Multiple-Choice Questionnaires (MCQs)
Q&A Resources
* All videos and PDFs are available for download from the designated OneDrive folder.
* Course Fee: 1000 INR