Week 10: Language of Paradox
Contents of the Lesson:
- Poetic truth vs Scientific truth
- Poetic vs Scientific language
- Poetic language as language of paradox
- juxtaposition of contradictory ideas
- Underlying structure
- Paradoxes convey theme and creat aesthetic beauty
Material:
Attached herewith
For Further Reading:
A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present by M. A. R. Habib
Course Material
- Week 01: Criticism: An Introduction
- Week 02: Matthew Arnold: As a critic
- Week 03: Preface to the Poems 1853
- Week 04: The Function of Criticism
- Week 05: The Study of the Poetry
- Week 06: T. S. Eliot as a critic
- Week 07: Tradition and the Individual Talent
- Week 08: The Metaphysical Poets And Milton I & II
- Week 09: Cleanth Brooks as a critic
- Week 10: Language of Paradox
- Week 11: The Heresy of Paraphrase
- Week 12: Catherine Belsey as a critic and Expressive Realism
- Week 13: Challenges to Expressive Realism
- Week 14: Post-Saussurian Theories
- Week 15: Structuralism and Deconstruction
- Chapters 15
- Department English(SCB)
- Teacher
Mr. Rashid Behram Khan
