Criticism Book Contents

followings are the list of contents of my book on Criticism 

Book-1- The Republic by Plato (*)

1. 2. 3.         4.         5. 6. 7.	A Life Sketch Summary in Urdu Summary in English   Important University Questions Plato's View of Poetry Plato's Achievement and Contribution to Literary Criticism. Aristotle’s Defence of Poetry
Book-2- The Poetics                                 by Aristotle

1.         A Life Sketch 2.         Summary in Urdu  3.         Summary in English Important University Questions 4.         Poetics-An Introduction 5.         Plato's Attack On Poetry 6.         Aristotle’s Defence of Poetry 7.         Aristotle's Theory of Imitations 8.         Tragedy 9.         Characterization, Ideal Tragic Hero, Concept of Hamartia. 10.       The Ideal Tragic Hero 11.       Plot 12.       Plot and Character Relationship 13.       Catharsis 14.       Poetic Truth 15.       Three Unities 16.       Comparison between the Epic and the             Tragedy 17.       Influence  of Aristotle

Book-3-   An Apology for Poesy                                   By Sir Philip Sidney

1.         A Life Sketch 2.         Summary in Urdu  3.         Summary in English Important University Questions  4.         Nature and Function of Poetry 5.         Charges Against Poetry & Sidney’s defence of poetry 6.         Superiority of Poetry Over Philosophy and History 7.         Mingling of Comic & Tragic elements in drama 8.         Sidney Views on Contemporary Poetry and Drama 9.         Sidney’s Views on Metre and Rhyme 10.        Sidney’s Contribution to Literary Criticism

Book-4-   The Critic                                 By Thomas Stearns Eliot

1.         A Life Sketch 2.         Summary in Urdu  3.         Summary in English  Important University Questions 4.         Tradition and Individual Talent 5.         Impersonality of Poet 6.         Eliot views on Metaphysical poets 7.         Eliot’s views on Hamlet 8.         Qualification of a Critic 9.         Functions of an Ideal Critic 10.       Eliot as a Critic

Book-5-   Modern Tragedy                              By Raymond William

1.         A Life Sketch 2.         Summary in Urdu  3.         Summary in English  Important University Questions 4.         Raymond’s Views On Tragedy 5.         Tragedy And Tradition 6.         Tragedy And Contemporary Ideas 7.         Rejection Of Tragedy 8.         Tragic Views of Hegel And Hegelians, Schopenhaur, Nietzsche 9.         Order and Accident

Book-6-   Critical Practice                                           By Catherine Belsey

1.         A Life Sketch 2.         Summary in Urdu 3.         Summary in English Important University Questions  4.         Structuralism and Post-structuralism 5.         Post Structural Theory Post Structuralism  6.         Analysis of Modern Theories by Belsey

Book-7-   Critical Essays    (*)

1.         Republic By Plato 2.         Art of Poetry By Horace 3.         On the Sublime By Loginus 4.         An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney 5.         An Essay on Dramatic Poesy             By John Dryden 6.         Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to his Genius. By Samuel T. Coleridge 7.         Preface to the Lyrical Ballad By William Wordsworth 8.         The Defense of Poetry By P.B. Shelley 9.         Tradition and Individual Talent             By T.S. Eliot 10.        Practical Criticism By I.A. Richards 11.        The Heresy of paraphrase                      By Cleanth Brooks

Book-8-   Critical Theories

1.         Introduction on Mimetic Theory 2.         Pragmatic Theory 3.         Expressive Theory 4.         Objective Theory 5.         Epistemological Theory 6.         Linguistic Theory             (Russian Formalism) 7.         Defamiliarization 8.         Marxism: History and Economy 9.         Feminist Theory 10.        A Brief Historical Overview of Feminism from Aristotle to the Present 11.        The Feminist Movement 12.        Applied Feminist Criticism:  Case Study 13.        Psychoanalytical Theory 14.        Existentialism 15.        Jean Paul Sartre 16.        Structuralism and Post-structuralism 17.        Post Structural Theory (Post Structuralism) 18.        New Historicism 19.        Michael Foucault 20.        Colonial and Post-Colonial Theory 21.        Chinua Achebe (Colonialist Criticism) 22.        Edward Said              (The World the Text and the Critic)

Book-9-   Literary Ages

·        Anglo Saxon                                   670 – 1100 ·        Anglo Norman Or Middle  Period      1100 – 1500 ·        Renaissance Or Elizabethan Age     1500 – 1600 ·        The Puritan Age                              1600 –1660 ·        Restoration Period                         1660 – 1700 ·        Classicism Or Eighteenth Century   1700 – 1744       Age Of Johnson                            1744 – 1784 ·        Romantic Age                                1798 – 1824 ·        Early Victorian                               1832 – 1870 ·        Later Victorian                                1870 – 1900 ·        Modernism                                    1900 – 1961

Book-10-  Literary Ages

Literary Terms: 1.         Major Figures of Speech 2.         Imagery and symbol 3.         Irony 4.         Musical Device 5.         Sound in Meaning 6.         Literary Techniques 7.         Meter in Poetry and Verse 8.         Common Literary Forms and Genres 9.         Literary Movements and Periods

Practical Criticism (Some Solved Exercises):             Critical Appreciation format 1.         Break, Break, Break             By Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2.         Ozymandias             By Percy Bysshe Shelley 3.         Death, Be Not Proud             By John Donne 4.         Loveliest of Trees             By A. E. Housman 5.         Whoso List to Hunt             By Thomas Wyatt 6.         Why so pale and wan             By Sir John Suckling 7.         The World Is Too Much With Us             By William Wordsworth
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