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| Post Graduate Diploma in Translation Studies |
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| UNIT 422-1: INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORIES |
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 Points to Remember  |
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| 422.1.8: SUMMARY |
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| In order to understand the problems of literary translation and to appreciate the wide range of possibilities it offers, it is important for us to have a working idea of what is called a 'literary theory'. More than that, it is also required that we know about some major theoretical positions that we keep hearing about in discussions on problems of translating literary and cultural texts in seminars and lectures or when we read about them in books after books. At the same time, in the context of a very wide variety of articulated positions taken by proponents or followers of different literary traditions, it is probably difficult to go into the details of any of these positions. In this unit, therefore, we discuss what is meant by 'Literary theory' in the light of some major literary theories. |
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| REVIEW QUESTIONS |
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Answer the following questions: |
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How are literary criticism and space related? |
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Write a short notes on the following terms, by looking them up in subject encyclopedia and reference manuals, since these have only been referred to here, and discussed in detail: |
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Modernism and Contemporary |
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Surrealism |
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Classicism |
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Expressionism |
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Inter-textuality |
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| 422.1.9: REFERENCES |
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Howe, I. (1968). The idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts. New York.
Lenin, V.I. (1969). O Literature i iskusstve, 4th edn. Moscow.
Marx, K. & F. Engles. (1967). Ob iskusstve, vols 1-2. Moscow.
Perry, John Oliver. (1968). Backgrounds to Modern Literature California:
Chandler Publishing Co.
Spender, S. (1963). The Struggle of the Modern. London & Berkeley.
Vidler, Alexander R. (1934). The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church. Cambridge.
Wellek, R. (1955-66). A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950, vols 1-4. New Haven- London.
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| 422.1.10: FURTHER READINGS |
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Bradbury, Malcom & J. McFarlane, eds. (1976). Modernism: 1890-1930. Harmondsworth: Penguine.
Lilley, A. L. (1908). Modernism: A Record and a Review. London.
Sturrock, John. (1979). Structuralism and Since: From Levi-Strauss to Derrida. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wellek, R. & A. Warren. (1963). Theory of Literature, 3rd edn. New York.
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Amitabha Gupta
Moulana Azad College, Calcutta &
West Bengal Educational Service.
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