Course Title: Literary Forms and Movements

Course Code: ENG-507
Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents:

Literary Forms

• Literary Terms
• Genres
• Poetry
• Drama
• Novel
• Short Story
• Prose

Literary Movements

16th to 18th Century Movements

• Renaissance
• Reformation
• Neoclassicism
• Romanticism

19th Century Movements

• Naturalism
• Art for Art’s Sake

20th Century Movements

• Expressionism
• Impressionism
• Imagism
• Stream of Consciousness
• Structuralism / Post-structuralism

Suggested Readings:

• Berman, Art. Preface to Modernism. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
• Dirks, B. Nichols. Colonialism and Culture. Michigan: Michigan Univ Press, 1992.
• Fowler, Alastair. Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Oxford: Clarendon, 2002.
• Galea, Ileana. Victorianism and Literature. California: Dacia, 2008.
• Gura, Philip. American Transcendentalism. NP: Farrar, 2008.
• Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory. London: Pluto Press, 2000.
• Hudson, William Henry. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. New Delhi: Rupa, 2015.
• Marcuse, J. Michael. A Reference Guide for English Studies. Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1990.
• Osborne, Susan. Feminism. NP: Product Essentials, 2001.
• Jerry, Andrew Ladd, and K. H. Meyers. Romanticism and Transcendentalism. New York: DWJ Books, 2010.
• Tandon, Neeru. Feminism: A Paradigm Shift. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2008.