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Multi-Genre Literatures in English [435 Notes- 71% Effort]
Poetry [121 Notes- 21% Effort]
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- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- TottelÕs Miscellany
- 2
- An Apology for Poetry
- Poetry is Superior to Philosophy and History
- 3
- Philip Sidney Works: Sonnet, an Apology for Poetry, the SidneyÕs Pslams
- Chaucerian to Elizabethan Age
- 4
- The Book of Duchess
- The House of Fame
- 5
- Christopher Marlowe - Major Works, Death
- Cavalier Poetry: Cavalier Poets Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, John Suckling
- 6
- University Wits: Playwrights
- Ben Jonson and His Poetry: On My First Sonne, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, a Country House
- 7
- Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
- The Rape of Lucrece: William Shakespeare: The Rape of Lucrece, a Critical Summary
- 8
- Spenser and Sidney
- Thomas Gray: Thomas Gray- Life and Works
- 9
- Introduction to Prose Writing in English: Important Titbit of Facts on English Prose, Pamphlet Writing: A Form of Prose Writing
- John Milton: Important Works: Lycidas, Paradise Lost
- 10
- Paradise Lost by Milton: Book I to Book XII
- Jonathan Swift: GulliverÕs Travels: GulliverÕs Travels ā Summary
- 11
- Alexander Pope: Life and Works, the Rape of the Lock
- John Dryden
- 12
- George Herbert: Seventeenth Century Poetry: A Brief Introduction, George Herbert: An Introduction
- John Donne: The Sun Rising: Metaphysical Poetry, the Sun Rising
- 13
- John Milton; Life and Career: Literary Career
- William Blake: The Tiger: The Tiger, the Lamb
- 14
- 18th Century Women Poets
- Everyman: The Social Backdrop, Everyman ā the Text, Everyman ā a Critical Overview
- 15
- Middle English Romances: Characteristic Features of Romances, Medieval Romance Was Divided into Three Categories- Matter of France, Matter of Britain, Matter of Rome, Matter of England
- Geoffrey Chaucer: French Period, Italian Period, English Period
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- Middle English Alliterative Poetry: Key Points, Pearl, Purity, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Alliterative Poems as Expression of Social Protest
- Anglo-Saxon Elegies: The Wanderer, the Seafarer, the WifeÕs Lament, the HusbandÕs Message, the Ruin
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- Christian Poetry and Prose: The Effects of Christianity on Anglo-Saxon Literature, Homiletic Poems, Anglo-Latin Phase: Aldhelm, Bede and Alcuin
- Christian Poetry and Prose: Caedmon and Cynewulf and Other Religious Poems, Development of Anglo-Saxon Prose: Alfred, Aelfric, Wulfstan
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- Carpe Diem
- Edmund Spenser: Some Important Facts About Edmund Spenser
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- An Apology for Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney: Four Chief Objections to Poetry
- Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Characters Are Symbolised, Figures of Speech in the Faerie Queene
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- William Shakespeare as Sonneteer: A Brief Introduction of William Shakespeare & His Sonnets, Other Major& Minor Sonneteers of Elizabethan Age
- EPIC: Different Forms of Narrative Poems: Ballad, Heroic Poem and Epic, Some Examples of Ancient Oral Epics, Other Important Non British Epic
- 21
- Beowulf: The Structure and Theme of Beowulf, the Structure of the Poem, Theme of Beowulf, Use of Legends in the Epic as the Subtext, Elements of Christianity, the Poetic Style of Beowulf
- Robert Herrick: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, CorinnaÕs Going a-Maying, to Daffodils, the Changes to Corinna
- 22
- William Langland: Vision 1 to Vision 8
- The Canterbury Tales: Some Facts About the Canterbury Tales, the Tales
- 23
- Fundamental Tenets of Romanticism
- Matthew Arnold
- 24
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Lotos Eaters, in Defence of Lucknow and in Memoriam, Tennyson
- Lord Byron: When We Two Parted, the Poem My Soul is Dark
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- John Keats
- Robert Browning: Major Works by Robert Browning
- 26
- William Wordsworth: Important Features of His Poetic Expression, Critics on William Words Worth, the Prelude
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Lotos Eaters, in Defence of Lucknow and in Memoriam- The Lotos Eaters, in Defense of Lucknow, in Memoriam, Critical Opinions on Tennyson
- 27
- William Blake: The Lamb, the Shepherd, the Divine Image, Holy Thursday, Songs of Experience, EarthÕs Answer, the Tyger, the Human Abstract
- P. B. Shelley
- 28
- S. T. COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan
- Indian Aesthetic Theory (the Concept of the Rasa) : Concept, Types - Sringara Rasa, Hasyam Rasa, Raudram Rasa, Karun Yam Rasa, Bhayanakam Rasa, Shantam Rasa, Conclusion
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- Bhakti Poetry: Concept- Nirguna Bhaktas, Saguna Bhakta, Characteristics of Bhakti-Poetry- Composition in Vernacular Languages, Preaching Against the Caste System, Emphasis on Personal Relationship with God, Conclusion
- Objectivist Poets: Concept, Characteristics- Separation from Social and Cultural Context, āObjectiveā Nature, Distrust of Metaphor and Symbolism, Conclusion
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- Beat Generation Writers: Concept, Characteristics of the Beat Generation- Emphasis on Sexual Liberation, Experimentation with Drugs, Romanticism, Jazz, Conclusion
- Confessional Poetry: Concept, Emergence, Conclusion
- 31
- John Stuart Mill: MillÕs Concept of Poetry and Subjection of Women, His Contribution to English Literature
- Algernon Charles Swinburne: Works
- 32
- Christina Rossetti: An Apple Gathering, Dead Before Death and a Birthday
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Pre Raphaelite-Movement and the Blessed Damozel
- 33
- Elizabeth Barret Browning: Cry of the Children and Aurora Leigh
- John Keats: Literary Career, Themes in KeatsÕs Major Poems
- 34
- Dylan Thomas: A Brief Introduction, Neo-Romanticism, and Imagery
- Major Movements of Twentieth Century: Modernist Poetry
- 35
- The Graveyard School of Poetry: Concept, Characteristics
- Philip Larkin: A Brief Introduction, Characteristics and Major Themes in LarkinÕs Poetry
- 36
- Poetry of G. M Hopkins and Thomas Hardy: Inscape and Instress
- Seamus Heaney: A Brief Introduction, Literary Career and Characteristics
- 37
- T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Brief Introduction & Themes
- T. S. EliotÕs the Wasteland: A Brief Introduction and the Waste Land
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- Ted Hughes: A Brief Introduction, Characteristics and Major Themes in HughesÕ Poetry
- āI Wandered Lonely as a Cloudā by William Wordsworth
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- W. B. Yeats: A Brief Introduction, Symbolist Movement and Abbey Theatre
- W. H. Auden: A Brief Introduction, Pink Poets and Literary Achievements
- 40
- SpenderÕs Poetry: A Brief Introduction, SpenderÕs Poetry
- Christina Georgina Rosetti
- 41
- James Joyce
- William Blake
- 42
- Selected Poems of Hart Crane
- William Faulkner
- 43
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emily DickinsonÕs Poetry
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Selected Poems of Walt Whitman
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
- E. E. Cummings
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- Selected Poems of Allen Ginsberg
- Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
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- Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens
- Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
- 48
- James Thomson (Poet)
- Marinism (Literary Movement)
- 49
- The Fireside Poets
- Sappho
- 50
- Emily Dickinson
- Types of Oral Literature (African Literature)
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- Seamus Heaney
- Derek Walcott-Poetry
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- Grace NicholsÕ Poetry
- Kamau BrathwaiteÕs Poems
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- Taban Lo Liyong as a Poet
- Christopher OkigboÕs Poetry
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- Dennis Brutus Poetry
- Kofi Awoonor as a Poet
- 55
- Nuruddin FarahÕs Gifts
- African and Caribbean Poetry an Overview
- 56
- Poetry in the Age of Migration
- Vinodini: Daham
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- Australian Poetry by the Writers of European Descent
- Pre-Confederation Poetry
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- Post-Confederation Poetry: Roberts, Carman and Lampman
- Post-Confederation Poetry: Duncan Campbell Scott; Pratt & Crawford
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- Post-Confederation Poetry: Earle Birney, Abraham Moses Klein, Eli Mandel Elias
- Post-Confederation Poetry: Irving Layton, Alfred Wellington Purdy
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- Diasporic Poetry
- Aborigine Australian Poetry
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- Poetry in Maori: Genres, Language of a People
Drama [156 Notes- 21% Effort]
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- Emergence of Modern Drama: First English Tragedy
- Histories of English Literature: First Comedy of English Literature, the Towneley Plays
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- Origin of Drama
- Origin of English Drama
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- Morality Plays and Interludes
- University Wits
- 4
- Thomas Dekker
- John Fletcher
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- John Webster
- Ben John Son
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- The War of Theatres
- Restoration Comedies
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- The Way of the World
- Aphra Behn
- 8
- Restoration Tragedies
- Augustan Drama
- 9
- John Dryden as a Dramatist
- Elizabethan Theatre - Establishment of Playhouses
- 10
- William Shakespeare: Robert Greene
- Emergence of American Drama
- 11
- Early American Plays Until 1770s
- Philadelphia School of Dramatists
- 12
- Death of a Salesman
- The Crucible
- 13
- Eugene Gladstone O ā² Neill
- The Emperor Jones
- 14
- The Hairy Ape
- Ah! Wilderness
- 15
- Tennessee Williams
- Oliver Goldsmith
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- Richard Sheridan
- Drama: Decline and Revival (Rev.)
- 17
- T. W Robertson
- W. S Gilbert
- 18
- The 20th Century Drama
- Independent Theatres
- 19
- Henrik Ibsen
- A DollÕs House
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- George Bernard Shaw
- Arms and the Man
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- Other Plays of Shaw
- Galsworthy
- 22
- Somerset Maugham
- Samuel Beckett
- 23
- Edward Franklin Alby
- Edward Franklin Alby - Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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- Edward Franklin Alby - The Zoo Story
- Samuel Shepard
- 25
- Thornton Niven Wilder
- Marvin Neil Simon
- 26
- August Wilson
- Tony Kushner
- 27
- T. S Eliot
- The Emergence of African Theatre
- 28
- Nigerian Theatre
- Wole Soyinka
- 29
- The Lion and the Jewel
- A Dance of the Forest
- 30
- Ngugi Wa Thiongo
- Raymond Evenor Lawler
- 31
- David Burn
- Francis R. C Hopkins
- 32
- Kitchen Sink Drama: A Brief Overview, Themes
- Henry IV (Part I) : William Shakespeare ā a Brief Biography, Henry IV, Plot, Analysis
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- The Elizabethan Stage and the Rise of Shakespeare (1558 - 1590) : The Elizabethan Stage, William Shakespeare: Life Facts, William ShakespeareÕs Plays: Upto 1590s
- The Spanish Tragedy: Thomas Kyd & the Spanish Tragedy, Plot, Theme & Motifs
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- Ben Jonson: Volpone
- Introduction to Shakespeare
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- Gorboduc by Sackville and Norton & Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall: Seneca and the Development of English Tragedy, Gorboduc (Tragedy) , Ralph Roister Doister (Comedy
- Christopher MarloweÕs Tamburlaine the Great: Tamburlaine the Great, Tamburlaine the Great Symbols, Allegory and Motifs
- 36
- Backgrounds to the Study of Renaissance Drama
- Christopher MarloweÕs Doctor Faustus: Doctor Faustus
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- The Life & Career of Thomas Kyd
- Elizabethan Sonneteers: Sonnet, Definition, Origin of Sonnet- Italian Sonnets, Elizabethan Sonnets
- 38
- Life and Oeuvre of Henry Fielding: FieldingÕs Works- His Plays, Masques
- Francis Bacon: A Brief Introduction to Francis Bacon, Bacon Style as an Essayist- Of Studies, of Discourse, of Truth
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- The Unfortunate Traveller: Thomas Nash, Storyline
- Anglo-Saxon Age: Period: 450 CE to 1066 CE, Roman Conquest, the Teutonic Conquest, Norman Conquest in 1066
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- Anglo-Saxon Age: Period: Other Major Literary Outcomes, Literary Style and Devices, the Origin and Position of English
- King Arthur: Categories of Literary Traditions Related to Arthur, Middle English Prose, WycliffeÕs Bible
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- King Arthur: John Mandeville ā² S the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Sir Thomas Malory ā² S Morte D ā² Arthur (the Death of Arthur) , William Caxton: Introducer of Printing Press in England
- Thomas More: Utopia
- 42
- Development of Comedy: Key Factors in the Development of English Comedy, Social Background and Development of Comedy in English Drama, Manifestation of Comedy in the Miracle Plays
- Development of Comedy: Manifestation of Comedy in the Morality Plays, Manifestation of Comedy in the Interludes, the Beginnings of the Sixteenth Century English Comedy
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- Development of Drama: The Beginnings of Medieval English Drama, Interludes
- Important Prose Writers of 17th Century: Important Literary Figures- Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, John Donne, John Milton
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- English Drama (Tragedy) : Origin of English Drama, University Wits: Marlowe and Kyd, Shakespearean Tragedy
- English Drama (Tragedy) : Domestic Tragedy of the Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Period, Civil War, Restoration and the Heroic Tragedy, Decline of Tragedy in the Eighteenth Century
- 45
- Shakespearean Comedy: Twelfth Night: Introduction to William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; or What You Will- Sources and Summary
- John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi: Development of Jacobean Theatre, John Webster & His Works, the Theme of the Duchess of Malfi
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- History and Literature of the Time (1590 - 1798) : History, Literature, the Renaissance Perio- Culmination of Elizabethan Age or Age of Shakespeare (1590 - 1603) , Jacobean Age (1603 - 1625)
- History and Literature of the Time (1590 - 1798) : Augustan Age (1700 - 1745) , the Age of Sensibility (1745 - 1985 ā 1798)
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- Literary Terms
- John Milton: Poems, Themes and Legacy
- 48
- Elizabethan Poetry & Age: Political & Cultural Background, Renaissance & Reformation, Elizabethan Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney, Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
- Addison and Steele
- 49
- William Congreve: The Way of the World: Background: The Life, Work and Times of William Congreve, the Way of the World
- William Wycherley: The Country Wife
- 50
- Samuel Johnson
- Comedy: Concept, Types- Romantic Comedy, Satiric Comedy, the Comedy of Manners, Farce, Comedy of Humours
- 51
- Major Writers and Their Works: Hughes, Heaney, Ibsen, and Greene, Wells, Golding, Angry Young Man, Theatre of the Absurd, Pinter, Bond
- Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell, a Brief Introduction and Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 52
- Problem Play
- Arthur Miller
- 53
- Eugene O ā² Neill
- Lorraine Hansberry
- 54
- Arnold WeskerÕs Roots
- Caryl Churchill
- 55
- Edward Bond
- George Bernard ShawÕs Pygmalion
- 56
- Harold Pinter
- Herman Melville
- 57
- J M Synge ā Playboy of the Western World
- John Osborne
- 58
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Slave Narratives: Introduction, Themes and Conventions
- 59
- T. S. EliotÕs Verse Drama
- Tom Stoppard
- 60
- Melodrama
- Oscar Wilde
- 61
- Ancient Greek Literature
- The Oresteia
- 62
- Shakespearean Comedy
- Am Ata AidooÕs Anowa
- 63
- Athol FugardÕs Blood Knot
- Derek WalcottÕs Dream on Monkey Mountain
- 64
- Efua SutherlandÕs the Marriage of Anansewa
- Errol JohnÕs Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
- 65
- Trevor RhoneÕs Old Story Time and Smile Orange
- Wole SoyinkaÕs KongiÕs Harvest
- 66
- African and Caribbean Theatre
- Drama in India: An Introduction
- 67
- Sanskrit Drama: An Overview
- Ancient Tamil Drama: An Overview
- 68
- Comparative Literature: Drama in India
- Dalit Writings and New Literatures
- 69
- Ratan Thiyam: Chakravyuha & Kanhailal Heisnam: Pebet
- Dina Mehta: Brides Are Not for Burning; Shaonli Mitra: Nathabati Ananthabat
- 70
- Form, Content, and Language: Street Theatre in India
- Habib TanveerÕs Charandas Chor & Dakxin Bajrange ChahraÕs Budhan Bolta Hai
- 71
- Mahesh Dattani: Tara
- Satish AlekarÕs Begum Barve
- 72
- Manjula PadmanabhanÕs Harvest
- Canadian Plays of Indigenous Writers
- 73
- Canadian Anglophone and Francophone Plays
- Canadian Diasporic Plays: Irani & Baldwin
- 74
- Canadian Diasporic Plays: Anita Majumdar, Maxim Mazumdar, Uma Parameshwaran
- Aborigine Australian Play: Kevin Gilbert - The Cherry Pickers
- 75
- Australian Play by a Writer of European Descent: Alan Seymour - The One Day of the Year
- Australian Play by a Writer of European Descent: David Williamson ā DonÕs Party
- 76
- Maori Plays of the South Pacific: Hone Kouka ā Nga Tangata
- Pakeha Plays of the South Pacific: Roger Hall- Glide Time
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- Renaissance
- Enlightenment
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- Mind and Body in ShakespeareÕs Sonnets
- Hamlet: Nature of Man
Fiction [90 Notes- 17% Effort]
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- Geoffrey Chaucer - The Italian Period
- Geoffrey Chaucer - The English Period
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- The Canterbury Tales - The Pilgrims
- Book 1: Dialogue of Counsel
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- The Age of Enlightenment: Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion
- Burlesque in Literature: Definition and Meaning, Types, Other Varieties of Burlesque
- 4
- Decadent Literature: Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion
- Naturalism, Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion
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- American Transcendentalism: Emergence, Definition and Meaning, Conclusion
- Literary Sublime: The Concept of the Sublime, Development of the Notion of the Sublime, Conclusion
- 6
- The Stream of Consciousness Novel: Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion
- Prose Writing in 17th Century: Important Works, the PilgrimÕs Progress by John Bunyan- The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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- Prose Writing in 17th Century: Essay or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon, an Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden- Areopagitica
- Dystopian Fiction: Concept, Types of Dystopian Fiction- Combination of Utopia and Dystopia, Ecotopian Fiction, Feminist Dystopia/Utopia
- 8
- Science Fiction: Concept, History, Types- Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction
- Cyberpunk: Concept, Emergence, Characteristics- Virtual Setting, Anti-Hero as the Protagonist, Social and Political Commentary
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- Historical Fiction: Concept, Subtypes- Documentary Fiction, Fictional Biographies, Historical Mysteries, Historical Romances, Historical Fantasies and Alternate History
- Gothic Fiction: Concept, Elements of Gothic Fiction- The Gothic Heroine, the Gothic Hero, the Tyrant/Predatory Male, the Clergy, the Setting, Conclusion
- 10
- Detective Fiction: Concept, Emergence of the Genre, Conclusion
- Primitivism: Concept, Types- Cultural Primitivism, Chronological Primitivism, Conclusion
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- The Inklings- Literary Group: Concept, Emergence, Conclusion
- Periods of American Literature: Concept, the Periods- The Colonial Period: (1607 - 1775) , the Early National Period: (1775 - 1828) , Romantic Period (1828 - 1865) , Realism and Naturalism (1865 - 1914) , Contemporary Period (1945- Present)
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- Major Writers and Their Works: Conrad, Lawrence, Forster, and Huxley
- Major Writers and Their Works: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, and Yeats
- 13
- Thomas De Quincey: Literary Career and Suspiria De Profundis, Confessions of English Opium Eater
- Arthur Canon Doyle: Introduction and the Sign of Four ā Plot, Themes, Sherlock Holmes Series
- 14
- H. G Wells: Works and the Time Machine
- Lewis Carroll: Alice in the Wonderland, and the Looking Glass Touches
- 15
- Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wildness Major Works, and the Picture of Dorian Gray
- John Ruskin: RuskinÕs Literary Career and Definition of Greatness in Art, Modern Painters, Literary Works
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- Thomas Carlyle: Literary Career and Sartor Resartus
- Walter Pater: Literary Career and PaterÕs Idea of Intellectual Epicureanism
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- Dubliners - James Joyce: A Brief Introduction and Plot Overview and Critical Analysis
- Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad, a Brief Introduction and Heart of Darkness
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- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Muriel Spark
- The Bronte Sisters
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- Ann Radcliffe
- The Academic Novel
- 20
- Southern Gothic
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 21
- Edith Wharton
- Harper Lee
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- James Baldwin
- John Updike
- 23
- Short Stories of James Thurber
- Willa Cather
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- Short Stories of Eudora Welty
- Edward Albee
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- Ernest Hemingway
- Henry James
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- Saul Bellow
- Mary Shelley (Author)
- 27
- H. P. Lovecraft (Author)
- Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Pastiche
- Folklore
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- Victor Hugo
- Francis Hodgeson Burnett
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- Charles Dickens
- Leo Tolstoy
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- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Louisa May Alcott
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- Franz Kafka
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- Katherine Mansfield
- Ayi Kwei ArmahÕs the Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
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- Buchi EmechetÕs the Joys of Motherhood
- Chinua AchebeÕs Things Fall Apart
- 35
- Chinua AchebeÕs Things Fall Apart - The Text
- Jean RhysÕ Wide Sargasso Sea
- 36
- Ngugi Wa Thiongo: Petals of Blood
- Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions
- 37
- V. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
- Wilson HarrisÕ Palace of the Peacock
- 38
- Merle HodgeÕs Crick Crack Monkey
- George LammingÕs in the Castle of My Skin
- 39
- Jamaica KincaidÕs Annie John
- Nadine GordimerÕs JulyÕs People
- 40
- Myth, History and New Popular Fictions
- Indigenous Novel- Lee MaracleÕs - Ravensong
- 41
- Diasporic Novel; Anita Rao Badami: Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
- Anglophone Canadian Novel- Margaret LaurenceÕs the Stone Angel
- 42
- Canadian Francophone Writings: Focus on Novel
- Short Stories of White Canada
- 43
- Canadian Short Stories of the Indigenous Writers
- Short Stories of the Diaspora by Shanti Mootoo
- 44
- Short Stories of the Diaspora by M. G. Vassanji
- Australian Short Stories by Writers of European Descent
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- Aborigine Australian Short Stories
- Short Story from the South Pacific: The Maori and the Pakehas
Non-Fiction [68 Notes- 11% Effort]
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- Geoffrey Chaucer - The French Period
- The Renaissance - Re-Birth or Reawakening
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- The Renaissance - Leonardo Da Vinci
- The Renaissance - Invention of Printing
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- The Renaissance - Caxton in His Printing Press Showing First Print to King Edward
- The Renaissance - The Canterbury Tales Printed by Caxton
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- Thomas Malory - The Foremost Writers
- Thomas Malory - Le Morte D ā² Arthur
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- Thomas Malory - Sir Balin
- Thomas Malory - Life and Adventures of Sir Tristram
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- Thomas Malory - Galahad Heals the Maimed King
- Thomas More
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- Utopia
- Book 2: Discourse on Utopia
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- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Satire: Concept, Types, Conclusion
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- Samuel Richardson: The Enlightenment and the Rise of the Novel, Pamela, Clarissa, the History of Sir Charles Grandison
- Daniel Defoe: The Rise of the Novel, Robinson Crusoe- Plot
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- Background to the Rise of the Novel: Backdrop, the Four Giants
- Dalit Literature: Concept, Characteristics of Dalit Literature, Conclusion
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- Realism: Concept, Characteristics, Types of Realism- Social Realism, Kitchen Sink Realism, Socialist Realism, Naturalism
- Charles Lamb: Lamb as an Essayist and Dream Children
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- William Hazlitt: Career & Literary Works
- Emily BronteÕs Wuthering Heights: Plot Construction
- 13
- Henry Cardinal Newman: The Oxford Movement and Literary Features
- Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice: Pride and Prejudice
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- George EliotÕs Middlemarch: Plot of the Novel āMiddlemarchā
- Charlotte Bronte: Plot of Jane Eyre
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- Charles Dickens: Works, Genre and Form of the Novel, Plot and Structure of the Novel
- Tess by Thomas Hardy: Early Writings and Tess of the DÕurbervilles
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- Elizabeth Gaskellz: Wives and Daughters and the Plot
- Mary Shelley: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the Story of Frankenstein
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- E. M. Foster: A Passage to India and Cultural Clash, Misunderstanding and Separateness
- William Golding: A Lord of Flies and Some Major Concepts
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- Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence: Brief Introduction of the Writer
- The Golden Notebook: Introduction of Doris May Lessing
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- To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf, a Brief Introduction and Quotes
- Romantic Nationalism
- 20
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Feminist Author and Philosopher)
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Nature Writing
- Slave Narratives: Characteristics
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- Ancient Indian Literature
- Memoir
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- African and Caribbean History of Development of Novel - An Overview
- Development of Prose
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- Colonization and Decolonization -The Historical Processes
- African and Caribbean Writing in English
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- Language, Race and Gender - Issues and Debates
- New Technologies and New Literatures
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- Commonwealth Countries and āNewā Literatures in English
- Displaced Voices: Literature of the Refugees and Undocumented Migrants
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- Impact of Marxism and Freudian Psychoanalysis
- The Graphic Novel and Literature
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- Digital Humanities and New Literature: Archiving and Digitisation
- Social Media, Blogzines New Literature and Readership
- 29
- Literature and Surveillance in Cyberspace
- History of Development of Non-British Literature
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- Multiculturalism in Canada
- Indigenous Canada: Literature and Culture
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- Aboriginal Australia: History and Literature
- Literary Writings Related to Settlement and Nationalism in Australian Literature
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- Maori Identity of the South Pacific and Literatures
- Pakeha Identity of the South Pacific and Literatures
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- Aboriginal Australian Prose; Sally MorganÕs My Place
- Australian Prose Writings by Writers of European Descent-Patrick WhiteÕs Voss
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- Maori Prose Traditions - Keri Hulme: The Bone People
- Nature of the Revolution in WomenÕs Education Proposed ByMary Wollstonecraft
Literary Criticism and Theory [68 Notes- 11% Effort]
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- Tragedy: Concept, Elements of Tragedy, Types of Tragedy
- ChildrenÕs Literature
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- Horror Fiction
- Romantic Drama
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- New Writings in English from South East Asia
- Writing from West Asia in English
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- PlatoÕs Philosophical Concepts
- AristotleÕs Poetic Concept: An Analysis of Poetry
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- AristotleÕs Poetic Concept: An Analysis of Tragedy
- Criticism in the Classical Antiquity: Longinus, Horace
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- Renaissance Criticism
- Neo-Classical Criticism: John Dryden, Alexander Pope
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- Prose and Criticism in Romantic Period: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley
- Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
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- Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
- Literary Criticism in the Victorian Age
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- Matthew Arnold: Study of Poetry
- Matthew Arnold as a Culture Critic
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- Henry James: Art of Fiction
- Art for ArtÕs Sake
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- Lionel Trilling and Sigmund Freud as Literary Critics
- Lionel TrillingÕs Freud and Literature
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- Mythic-Archetypal Criticism: An Introduction
- Tradition and the Great Tradition: T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis
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- I. a. Richards and Practical Criticism
- New Criticism to Archetypal Criticism: John Ransom Crowe, Northrop Frye
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- Formalism: Cleanth Brookes
- Reader Response Theory; Wimsatt and Beardsley, Fallacies
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- Culture and Class Struggle in Literature: Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams
- Texts and History: Georg Lukacs, Terry Eagleton
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- Words, Texts, Cultural Structures and Narratives: Roland Barthes, Arnold Kettle, Harold Bloom
- Work as Text: Myths in a Self-Contained World: Michael Foucault, J. Hillis Miller
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- Sanskrit Poetics, Tamil Poetics, Persian Poetics
- Indian Literary Criticism and Theory: Drama
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- Abhinaya, Angikabhinaya, Vacikabhinaya, Aharyabhinaya, Satvikabhinaya
- Itivritta: Theme and Development
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- Rasa: Literary Criticism and Theory
- Tholkappiyar; Tholkappiyam
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- Bhartrihari: Vakyapadiya
- Dandin and His Contribution to Indian Poetics
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- Kavyadarsha
- Anandavardhana: Dhvani Theory
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- Dhananjaya: Dasharoopaka
- Kuntaka and His Contribution to Indian Poetics
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- Abhinavagupta: Abhinavabharati
- Bhamaha and Indian Poetics
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- Vamana and Indian Poetics
- Khemendra: Auchitya Vichara Charcha
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- Jnanesvara and Indian Poetics
- Bhakti Rasa
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- Amir Khusru and His Contribution to Indian Poetics
- Keshavadasa and His Contribution to Indian Poetics
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- Albadaoni and Literary Historiography
- Ghalib and His Poetic Thoughts
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- Bankimchandra and His Literary Thought
- Rabindranath Tagore and Indian Aesthetics
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- Sri Aurobindo and His Thought on Poetry
- Ananda Coomaraswamy and Indian Poetics
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- Jainendrakumar and His Contribution to Indian Poetics
- Suresh Joshi and Indian Poetics
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- Bhalchandra Nemade and Nativism
- The Hungry Generation and Poetics
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- Folk and Tribal Aesthetics
- Dali Aesthetics
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- Contemporary Indian Poetics
- AristotleÕs Concept of Plot in the Poetics.
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- Main Ideas in Roland BarthesÕ Essay āthe Death of the Authorā
- Julia Kristeva: Tel Quel, Feminist Theory, Role in Semiotics and Psychoanalysis
History of English Literature [52 Notes- 9% Effort]
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- Chaucer and His Contemporaries
- Post-Chaucerian Period - Robert Henryson
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- Post-Chaucerian Period - Gavin Douglas
- Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard
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- Philip Sidney
- Christopher Marlowe - Christopher MarloweÕs Major Works
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- William Shakespeare - ShakespeareÕs Tragedies
- William Shakespeare - ShakespeareÕs Comedies
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- Elizabethan Theater - First Black Friars
- The Novel (Definition and Types) : Definition and Meaning, History ā Proto Novels, Types of Novels
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- The Wars of the Roses: Battle of Blore Heath: 1459, Battle of Ludford: 1459, Battle of Northampton: 1460, Battle of Wakefield: 1460, Battle of MortimorÕs Cross: 1461
- The Wars of the Roses: Battle of Hedgeley Moor: 1464, Battle of Edgecote Moor: 1469, Battle of Stoke Field: 1487, Impact of the Wars of Roses
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- History and Literature of the Time (1590 - 1798) : Caroline Age (1625 - 1649) , Commonwealth Period (1649 - 1600) , Restoration Period (1600 - 1700)
- Norman Conquest: Main Event and Changes, Characteristic Features of Anglo-Norman Language, Hybridism
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- Rudyard Kipling: Introduction and Works
- Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Background of 20th Century England
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- Major Movements of Twentieth Century: Modern Fiction and Modernist Drama
- Chivalric Romance: Concept, Characteristics
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- Allegory: Concept, Types, Genres
- Pastoral Literature: Concept, Types of Pastoral Literature
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- History of American Literature 1700 - 1800
- History of American Literature (1800 - 1900)
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- History of American Literature 1900 ā 1950 Novel
- History of American Literature 1900 - 1950 Poetry
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- History of American Literature (1950 - 2000) Part I
- History of American Literature (1950 - 2000) Part II
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- Indian English
- Indian English Literature
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- New Literature in English
- Otherness and Literature
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- Natyashastra and Rasa
- Kalidasa: Abhignana Shakuntalam
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- Sudraka: Mrichhakatika
- Minority Discourses and New Writings in English
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- Rise of Bhasha: Great Traditions and Little Traditions; Western Impact and Indian Response; Cultural Politics and Hybridity
- Theatre: Architecture, Apparatus, Acting; Censorship and Spectatorship; Translations and Adaptations
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- Diaspora, Home and New English Literatures
- Parsi Theatre
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- Dinabandhu MoitraÕs Neel Darpan
- Tracing Dispersions/Movements and Claiming Spaces: Articulation of Diaspora
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- Gurjada Appa Rao: Kanyasulkam
- Rabindranath Tagore: Theory and Plays: Post Office Muktadhara/Rakta Karabi/Chitra
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- Indian English Writings in the World
- Bharati SarabhaiÕs the Well of the People
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- Bijon Bhattacharya: Nabanna
- Utpal Dutt: Kallol
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- Writing the Colony: Tom StoppardÕs Indian Ink
- Life Writings: Articulating Sexual Identities
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- Dharamvir BharatiÕs Andha Yug
- Vijay TendulkarÕs Shantata, Court Chalu Aahe
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- Badal Sircar: Micchil
- Mohan RakeshÕs Ashad Ka Ek Din
Research Approaches and Methodologies [41 Notes- 8% Effort]
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- Geoffrey Chaucer Introduction
- William Langland and John Grover
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- John Wycliffe and John Mandeville
- The Canterbury Tales - The Opening Lines of the Prologue
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- The Canterbury Tales - Shipman
- The Canterbury Tales - The Order of the Tales
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- Check Out the Topic & Subtopic: Concept, Characteristics, Philosophical Absurdism, Notable Works of Absurdist Fiction
- Imagism: Concept, Emergence, Characteristics, Decline
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- Psychoanalytical Criticism: Concept, Method
- Reader Response Theory: Concept, Various Approaches Within Reader-Response Theory, Criticism
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- Eco Criticism: Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion
- Postmodernist Literature: Concept of Postmodernism, Characteristics of Postmodern Literature
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- Gender Criticism: Concept, Characteristics, Criticism
- Marxist Literary Criticism: Concept of Marxism, Definition and Meaning of Marxist Literary Criticism, Conclusion
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- Post-Colonial Literary Criticism: Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion
- Darwinian Literary Studies: Concept, Characteristics, Criticism
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- Womanism: Concept, History, the Concept of Womanism (According to Alice Walker)
- Magical Realism: Concept, Characteristics- Supernatural Elements, Realistic Setting, Authorial Reticence, Political Critique, Metafiction
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- Surrealism: Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion- Influence of Psychoanalysis, Political Philosophy, Experimental Writing Style
- Major Theories of the Twentieth Century: Marxism and Feminism
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- The French LieutenantÕs Woman: A Brief Introduction, Plot & Summary
- Structuralism: Concept, Structuralism in Literature, Conclusion
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- War Poets: Introduction, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke
- Gynocriticism
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- Research (Definition and Methodologies)
- Simone De Beauvoir
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- New Literature in English and World Literature
- New English Literatures in the Third World
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- Issues of the Global and Local in the New Literatures in English
- Queer Discourses and the New Literatures in English
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- Studying Masculinity; Studying āNewā Literatures in English
- Class, Caste, Gender: Intersections in New Writings in English
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- Indigenous PeopleÕs Writings and the āNewā Literature in English
- Literature and the Condition of Postmodernity: Lyotard, Fredric Jameson
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- Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Helen Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Spectre of Lacan
- Women Pitched Against Power Structures and Male Prejudices: Kate Millet, Juliet Mitchell
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- Feminism in the Second Wave: Simone De Beauvoir, Germaine Greer
- Orientalism and Thereafter: Edward Said
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- Subaltern Theories: Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Dipesh Chakravarty
- Post Colonialism
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- Julia Kristeva: Tel Quel, Feminist Theory, Role in Semiotics and Psychoanalysis