About Seminar

The contemporary literary scenario is marked with multifaceted interdisciplinary approaches. Traditionally fixed norms of literary text and literary studies have drastically changed and are at the verge of losing authenticity. The concept of authenticity itself is not fixed as no static set of cultural, political values is available for the critics. The society and individual appear to have been split between recognition of fluidity and temptation of fixity for the sustenance of societal and individual entities. This consistent shift of fixity and fluidity raises questions against the pragmatic values of literary theory.  

Literary theory comes from various kinds of disciplines: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, history, economics, gender studies, ethnic studies and political science. Much of what falls under the heading of ‘Literary Theory’, like Mary Klages, the scholars argue, has little to do directly with what we call ‘literature’. On the other hand it is argued that Literary Theory aids the reading of text(s) and, in a way, enhances the literariness. We, the Department of English, N S Patel Arts College, Anand, are glad to organize a UGC Sponsored Two-day National Seminar on “Triangulation of Literary Theory, Text and Literariness” to discover, analyze and exhibit the interconnectedness of ‘Literary Theory’, ‘Text’ and ‘Literariness’.

Aim:

This seminar aims at providing platform to research scholars for an analytical study of triangulation of ‘Literary Theory’, ‘Text’ and ‘Literariness’, wherein a researcher will expectedly study, analyze and understand the peculiarities of a Literary Theory through its application to a selected text with a view to examine its interconnectedness with literariness.

Objectives:

1.To analyze principles and peculiarities of a selected literary theory.

2.To examine these principles and peculiarities in a selected text.

3.To compare eastern and western set of theories and literary values.

4.To observe a new set of assumptions applicable critically to any literary text.

5.To examine its interconnectedness with literariness.

Expected outcome:

·The intellectual discourse of seminar papers will bring an in-depth awareness pertinent to literary theory and its pragmatic values. 

·The comparative study of eastern and western literary values will provide the participants with new synthesis, or possibility of further research study on it.

·The scholarly and analytical discussion will motivate the participants to think in the direction of eastern literary theoretical pattern as an alternative to western theories.

Themes and subthemes of seminar:

1.      Humanist Theories and Text.

2.      Gender Studies and Text.

3.      Cultural Theories and Text.

4.      Linguistic Theories and Text.

5.      Psychoanalysis and Text.

6.      Marxist Critique and Text.

7.      Indian/Regional Literary Theory and Text