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    This document outlines the lesson plan for an Advanced Literary Theory course taught at Metropolitan University, Bangladesh. The course is designed to introduce students to major literary theories and apply them to analyze different genres of world literature. It will cover theories such as formalism, Marxist criticism, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, feminism, ecocriticism, postmodernism and others. Students will develop skills in critical thinking, close reading, and evaluating texts from different perspectives. The course will include lectures, assignments, exams and other assessments. The teacher's contact information and course schedule are provided.

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    This document outlines the lesson plan for an Advanced Literary Theory course taught at Metropolitan University, Bangladesh. The course is designed to introduce students to major literary theories and apply them to analyze different genres of world literature. It will cover theories such as formalism, Marxist criticism, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, feminism, ecocriticism, postmodernism and others. Students will develop skills in critical thinking, close reading, and evaluating texts from different perspectives. The course will include lectures, assignments, exams and other assessments. The teacher's contact information and course schedule are provided.

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    This document outlines the lesson plan for an Advanced Literary Theory course taught at Metropolitan University, Bangladesh. The course is designed to introduce students to major literary theories and apply them to analyze different genres of world literature. It will cover theories such as formalism, Marxist criticism, psychoanalysis, postcolonial studies, feminism, ecocriticism, postmodernism and others. Students will develop skills in critical thinking, close reading, and evaluating texts from different perspectives. The course will include lectures, assignments, exams and other assessments. The teacher's contact information and course schedule are provided.

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    Metropolitan University, Sylhet, Bangladesh

    Department of English
    Summer Term, 2020
    Programme: MA (Final) in English

    Lesson Plan

    Course Teacher: Rama Islam, PhD


    Office Room: Teachers’ Lounge (Permanent Campus)

    Contact: 01716799538
    Email: rislam@metrouni.edu.bd

    Course Title: Advanced Literary Theory


    Course Code: Eng 610
    Credit: 3

    Course Description: Theory is an excellent tool to conduct a literary analysis from multiple
    perspectives. This course is designed to highlight on the theories which may be applied in
    different texts of different literary genres of World Literature. It covers the major literary
    theories of major literary theorists and schools. In this course some texts of poems, dramas,
    stories etc. will be selected to analyse. Through close reading techniques learners will
    independently analyze poem or novel or drama or novella or short story etc.

    Programme Learning Outcome (PLO)


    On completion of the programme, learners will be able to:

    a) demonstrate advanced skills in reading, writing, and evaluating critically on various


    subjects in different fields.
    b) acquire the proficiency of learning English language (four skills) and understand
    multinational and multicultural issues of the English-speaking world.
    c) develop skills of judgment, management, leadership, making decision, solving problems.
    They will apply their comparative and analytic power in their professional life.
    Course Learning Outcome (CLO)
    Course Objectives: The main objectives of the course are to:
    a) Enable learners to introduce the concept of literary theory
    b) Develop Learners’ in-depth understanding of the critical approaches to texts
    c) Help learners to analyse a text for deeper understanding and precise interpretation
    d) Develop learners critical thinking and close reading skills
    e) Analyze differences in the literary works across different countries or cultures

    Taxonomy Level
    Cognitive: Understanding, Analyzing, Evaluating

    Weekly Class Schedule

    Day Room No. Time


    Sunday Home 7:10pm-8:30pm
    Thursday Home 7:10pm-8:30pm

    Consultation Hour
    Day Time
    Any Day Any Time

    Course Contents:
    a) Formalism
    b) Marxist Criticism
    c) Psychoanalytic Criticism
    d) Postcolonial Studies
    e) Feminist Criticism, Gender, Queer Theory, Sexuality
    f) New Criticism and Reader-Response Theory
    g) New Historicism
    h) Ecocriticism
    i) Postmodernism
    j) Cultural Studies
    k) Ethnic Studies
    Reference Books
    Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester
    University Press, 2009.
    Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. Routledge, 2014.
    Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 1997.
    Rivkin, Julie, and Michael Rayan. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Willey-Blackwell, 2017.
    Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today. Routledge, 2014.
    Zepetnek, Steven Totosy de. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Rodopi B.V.
    1998.

    Marks Distribution System:

    Attendance 10%
    Class Performance 20%
    Mid Term Examination 30%
    Final Examination 40%
    Total 100

    Exam Strategies: Creative Assignments, Open Book Examinations, Visual Presentations, Quiz,
    Viva or Any Kind of Innovative Test

    Lecture Schedule:
    Lecture No. Lesson Description Teaching
    Learning
    Method
    Lecture 01 What is Theory? Communicative
    What is Literary Theory?
    Theory in World Literature?

    Lecture 02 Formalism or Formalist Theory: Form is


    related with the content.
    New Criticism: Close Reading
    Lecture 03 Marxist Criticism: Karl Marx
    Marxist Literary Theory: Historical
    Materialism, Capitalism, Late
    Capitalism, Hegemony (Culturally and
    politically Dominance)
    Raymond William: 20th c. Marxist and
    Cultural Theorist (Cultural Hegemony)
    Antonio Gramsci: Italian Marxist
    Terry Eagleton:
    Lecture 04
    Lecture 05 Psychoanalytic Criticism: Sigmund Freud
    Lecture 06
    Lecture 07 Postcolonial Studies: Frantz Fanon, Edward
    Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Homi K
    Bhabha, R. Siva Kumar, Dipesh Chakrabarty
    Lecture 08
    Lecture 09
    Lecture 10 Feminist Criticism: Simon de Beauvoir
    Lecture 11

    Mid Term Exam


    Lecture 12 Ecocriticism

    Lecture 13 Postmodernism (Jean Baudrillard, Gilles


    Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault,
    Pierre-Félix Guattari, Fredric Jameson, Emmanuel
    Lévinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Richard Rorty,
    and Slavoj Žižek)
    Lecture 14
    Lecture 15 New Historicism (Michel Foucault)
    Lecture 16
    Lecture 17 Short Test
    Lecture 18 Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall)
    Lecture 19

    Lecture 20
    Lecture 21 Reader-response Theory
    Lecture 22
    Lecture 23 Ethnic Studies
    Lecture 24 Quiz Test
    Lecture 25 Revision of the course
    Lecture 26 Viva

    Overall Instructions:
    If a class needs to be cancelled in case of unavoidable circumstances like a meeting, exam etc., the course
    teacher will arrange a makeup class. Please follow the MU students’ code of conduct and guidelines
    offered by the Department of English and Registrar’s office.

    Signature of the Course Teacher

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