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‘Introduction to the Study of Literature’ is an enquiry into the various aspects of literature. Here the focus is on the features, functions and forms of literature. With this, the study of stylistic devices generally used in literature are also of equal importance. This work is important from technical point of view. Here most of the major and minor forms of literature are taken into consideration. With this, historical development of each of the goners is stressed out.
Overall, literature gives us a unique experience of slices of life, real or imaginary, spread across the centuries scattered among different cultures and civilizations. It gives us various shades of the very existence of man on the planet. Present work is a small effort at the primary level optimistically hoped to be helpful to the students appearing for various examinations, teachers and general readers of literature.
- The Study of Literature : 1.1 Main features of Literature, 1.2 Functions of Literature, 1.3 Forms of Literature, 1.4 Style in Literature : • The Elements of Style, • Choice of ideas, • The Expression of Ideas, • The Spenserian Style, • Style of Elizabethan Sonnet, • Conceited Style, • The Metaphysical Style, • Euphuistic style, • Arcadian Style, • The Epigrammatic Style, • Architectural Prose Style, • The Gentle Style, • Johnsonian Style, • De Quincy’s Prose –poetry Style, • Grotesque Style of Carlyle, • Dickens’ Prose Style, • The New Cryptic Style
- Poetry : 2.1 Poetry is in ‘Being’ and in ‘Meaning’, 2.2 Poetry and Music, 2.3 Aspects of a Poem : • Style, • Theme, • Setting, • Vision, 2.4 Units of a Poem, • The Words, • The Stanza, 2.5 The Poetic Devices : • Alliteration, • Rhyme, • Image, • Figures of Speech, • Symbol, 2.6 Critical Study of a Poem : • Appreciation, • Analysis, • Evaluation, 2.7 Requirements of Good Poetry : • Rhyme, • Poetic Language, 2.8 Types of Poetry : • The Lyric, • The Ode, • The Sonnet, • The Elegy, • The Idyll, • The Epic, • The Ballad
- Short Story : 3.1 Analysis of the genre, 3.2 History, 3.3 The Predecessors, 3.4 The Eightieth Century, 3.5 The 19th century, 3.6 The Twentieth Century, 3.7 Post Second World War, 3.8 Characteristics of the Short Story
- Novel : 4.1 The Origin, 4.2 Elements of Novel : • Plot, • Characters, • Setting, • Narrative Technique, • Point of View, • Theme, 4.3 Development of English Novel : • First novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, • Romantic period, • Victorian novel, • The 20th century
- The Study of Drama : 5.1 Exposition, 5.2 Origin, 5.3 Definition, 5.4 Nature of Dramatic Art, 5.5 Aspects of Drama : • Plot, • Characterization, • Dialogue, • The Stage Directions, • Action, • Conflict, • Dramatic Rhythm, • Dramatic Structure, 5.6 Kinds of Drama : • Tragedy, • Comedy, • History Plays, 5.7 Minor Kinds of Drama : • Satire, • Problem Plays, • Farce, • Folk Forms
- Development of Drama : 6.1 Classical Drama, • Classical Drama: Greek, • Aeschylus, • Sophocles, • Euripides, • Aristophanes’ Old Comedy, • Menander: New Comedy, • Classical Roman Drama, • Plautus and Terence, • Seneca, 6.2 Renaissance Drama : • Marlow, • Shakespeare, • Ben Johnson and Others, • Vega and Calderon, • Corneille and Racine and Moliere, 6.3 Restoration Drama : • Congreve and Others, 6.4 Modern Drama : • Pirandello and Eliot and Yeats and Lorca, • Bertolt Brecht, • Beckett and Ionesco
- Indian Writing in English : 7.1 Indo-English Literature: A Viable Perspective, 7.2 Indian Writing in English: The Two Beginning, 7.3 Indian Writing in English: The 1820s and 30s, 7.4 Indian Writing in English: The 1950s and the 60s, 7.5 India Through British Eye and Indian Response to the Idea of Colonialism, 7.6 Indo-English Literature: The Literary Scene, 7.7 Development of Various forms in Indian Writing in English, I. Indian Verse in English, Leading trends in the Modern poetry : • Modernity, • Symbolism, • Confessional Poetry, • Realistic Poetry, • Surrealism, • Expressionism, • Motif, • Nostalgia, • Poetic Devices, II. Indian Fiction in English, III. Indian English Prose, IV. Indian English Drama
- Criticism : 8.1 Literary Theory and Literary Criticism, 8.2 Classical and Medieval Criticism, 8.3 Renaissance criticism, 8.4 Enlightenment criticism, 8.5 19th-century Romantic criticism, 8.6 The New Criticism, 8.7 The Concept of Theory, 8.8 History of the book, 8.9 Current state, 8.10 Value of academic criticism, 8.11 Functions of Criticism
- Research in Literature : 9.1 Basic research, • Overview, 9.2 Research Topics in English Literature : • Ideas for Writing Papers, 9.3 Effective Use of the Library Resources : • A research paper, • Preliminary Bibliography, • Note-taking, • Outline of the article, • Documentation, I. Footnotes, II. First references, III. Periodical articles, IV. Subsequent References, V. Final Bibliography
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