Major · 01/ENG/MJR/401T · 2026–27 intake
Literary Criticism
Semester VII · 6 credits · 5 units
Examination scheme & source discrepancies
The source lists 3 hours, 120 end-semester marks and 30 sessional marks.
Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.
Scheme of Examination Maximum Marks: 120 Time: 03 Hours Part-1 (10 X 2 =20) Total ten questions (2 from each unit). Answer to these questions shall be limited to 30 words each. Part -2 : Candidate shall answer one out of two questions from each unit 2,3,4 and 5. Answer to these questions shall be limited to 500 words. (5 X 20 =100)
Part B directs answers from Units 2–5 only but prints 5x20=100; the number of essay units and stated marks do not agree.
Examination scheme wording was missing from the first transcription and has been filled from the owner-supplied PDF (p.26); the full college copy prints the same text across pp.113–114.
Unit INatyashastra, Chapter 6 / Theory of Poetry and Fine Arts
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Bharat: Natyashastra (Chapter – 6) Aristotle: Theory of Poetry and Fine Arts
Source syllabus · page 112Unit IIAn Essay of Dramatic Poesy / Preface to Shakespeare
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John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
Source syllabus · page 112Unit IIIPreface to Lyrical Ballads / Biographia Literaria, Chapters XIV and XVII
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William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria, Chapters XIV and XVII
Source syllabus · page 112Unit IVThe Study of Poetry / Tradition and the Individual Talent
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Matthew Arnold: The Study of Poetry T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
Source syllabus · page 112Unit VThe Imagination / The Two Uses of Language
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I.A. Richard: The Imagination, The Two Uses of Language
Source syllabus · page 112Recommended readings in the source
- Bharat : Natyashatra, Manmohan Ghosh (Tr.) Kapoor, Kapil Literary Theory, New Delhi, 1998
- D.J. Enright & Ernest de Chikera. English Critical Text (16 th Century to 20 th Century), OUP
- Tiwari, R.S. : A Critical Approach to Classical Indian Poetics, Varanasi, 1984.
- Coyle, Martin : Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism. Gale/Cengage Learning, 1990.
- Bennett, A. : Literature, Criticism& Theory. Routledge, 2016.
- Eagleton, Terry : Literary Theory : An Introduction. Wiley Blackwell, 2008.
- Brooks, Cleanth : A Short Introduction to Literary Criticism. Oxford & IBH Publishing, 2017.
- Barry, Peter : Beginning Theory. 4 th Edition. Viva Books, 2018
- Habib, M.A.R. : A history of Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present. Wiley Blackwell, 2005.