CONTENTS
UNIT I : REALISM
1. Lan Watt * Realism and the Novel Form
2. George Eliot * Adam Bede
UNIT II: MODERNISM
3. Malcolm Bradbury * Introduction to Modernism
& James McFaelane
4. Ezra Pound * A Few Don' ts by an Imagiste
UNIT III: POSTMODERNISM
5. Linda Hutcheon * Theorizing the Potmoderm :
Toward a Poetics
6. Ihab Hassan * Toward a Concept of Postmodernism
7. Borges, Jorge Luis * The Library of Babel
UNIT IV: POSTCOLONIALISM
8. Bill Ashcroft, et at * The Empire Writes Back
9. Ngugi wa Thiong' O * The Language of African Literature
UNIT V: DEBATING ' PERIODIZATION' IN HISTORY
10. Ted Underwood * The Disciplinaty Rationale for
Periodization, and a Forgotten
Challenge to It
21. Eric Hayot * Against Periodization: or, on
Institutional Time