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William Shakespeare [16 Notes- 5% Effort]
King Lear and the Tempest [16 Notes- 5% Effort]
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- William Shakespeare - Shakespeare՚s Tragedies
- William Shakespeare: Robert Greene
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- Henry IV (Part I) : William Shakespeare – a Brief Biography, Henry IV, Plot, Analysis
- The Elizabethan Stage and the Rise of Shakespeare (1558 - 1590) : The Elizabethan Stage, William Shakespeare: Life Facts, William Shakespeare՚s Plays: Upto 1590s
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- The Rape of Lucrece: William Shakespeare: The Rape of Lucrece, a Critical Summary
- Shakespearean Comedy: Twelfth Night: Introduction to William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night; or What You Will- Sources and Summary
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- William Shakespeare as Sonneteer: A Brief Introduction of William Shakespeare & His Sonnets, Other Major& Minor Sonneteers of Elizabethan Age
- William Shakespeare - Shakespeare՚s Comedies
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- Introduction to Shakespeare
- English Drama (Tragedy) : Origin of English Drama, University Wits: Marlowe and Kyd, Shakespearean Tragedy
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- Shakespearean Comedy
- Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
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- Mind and Body in Shakespeare՚s Sonnets
- William Shakespeare- King Lear & the Tempest
- 8
- Alfred Tennyson … in Memoriam
- Henrik Ibsen as Dramatist of Realism
John Donne [6 Notes- 2% Effort]
Canonization [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Death be Not Proud [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Good Morrow [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
On His Mistress Going to Bed [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Relic [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
John Milton [5 Notes- 2% Effort]
Alexander Pope [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Rape of the Lock [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
William Wordsworth [12 Notes- 4% Effort]
Ode on Intimations of Immortality [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
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- ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by William Wordsworth
- William Wordsworth- Ode on Intimations of Immortality
Tintern Abbey [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Three Years She Grew [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Michael [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
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- Michael by William Wordsworth: Introduction, Summary, Themes & Structure
- Michael by William Wordsworth: Analysis of Poem
Resolution and Independence [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The World is Too Much with Us [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Milton, Thou Shouldst be Living at this Hour [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Upon Westminster Bridge [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Alfred Tennyson [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Henrik Ibsen [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
A Doll's House [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Jonathan Swift [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Gulliver's Travels [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Jane Austen [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Pride and Prejudice [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Henry Fielding [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Tom Jones [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Charles Dickens [6 Notes- 3% Effort]
Hard Times [6 Notes- 3% Effort]
George Eliot [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Mill on the Floss [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Thomas Hardy [3 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Tess of the D'Urbervilles [3 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Mark Twain [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
William Butler Yeats [15 Notes- 5% Effort]
Easter 1916 [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
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- W. B. Yeats: A Brief Introduction, Symbolist Movement and Abbey Theatre
- William Butler Yeats … Easter 1916
The Second Coming [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
A Prayer for My Daughter [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Sailing to Byzantium [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Tower [2 Notes- 1% Effort]
Among School Children [3 Notes- 1% Effort]
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- Among School Children by William Buter Yeats – Introduction & Summary
- Among School Children by William Buter Yeats – Themes
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- Among School Children by William Buter Yeats – Critical Analysis, Development of Thought & Style
Leda and the Swan [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
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- Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats: Introduction & Summary
- Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats: Themes
Meru [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Lapis Lazuli [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
T.S. Eliot [13 Notes- 4% Effort]
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock [7 Notes- 1% Effort]
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- T. S Eliot
- T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Brief Introduction & Themes
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- T. S. Eliot՚s the Wasteland: A Brief Introduction and the Waste Land
- T. S. Eliot՚s Verse Drama
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- Tradition and the Great Tradition: T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis
- T S Eliot … the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Journey of the Magi [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Burnt Norton [5 Notes- 3% Effort]
W.H. Auden [11 Notes- 4% Effort]
Partition [2 Notes- 1% Effort]
Musee Des Beaux Arts [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
In Memory of W.B. Yeats [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Unknown Citizen [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Consider [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Mundus Et Infans [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Shield of Achilles [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
September 1, 1939 [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Petition [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
John Osborne [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Look Back in Anger [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Samuel Beckett [3 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Waiting for Godot [3 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Philip Larkin [8 Notes- 1% Effort]
Next [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
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- Philip Larkin: A Brief Introduction, Characteristics and Major Themes in Larkin՚s Poetry
- Phillip Larkin: Next, Please
Please [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Deceptions [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Afternoons [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Days [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Mr. Bleaney [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
A.K. Ramanujan [25 Notes- 6% Effort]
Looking for a Causim on a Swing [2 Notes- 1% Effort]
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- Looking for a Cousin on a Swing: Summary Lines 1 - 14
- Looking for a Cousin on a Swing: Summary Lines 15 to 23
A River [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Of Mothers, Among Other Things [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Love Poem for a Wife 1 [10 Notes- 2% Effort]
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- Love Poem for a Wife – 1 by a K Ramanujan: The Poem
- Love Poem for a Wife – 1 by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of Poem: Stanza 1 (Lines 1 - 7)
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- Love Poem for a Wife – 1 by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of Poem: Stanza 2 (Lines 8 - 15)
- Love Poem for a Wife – 1 by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of Poem: Stanza 3 (Lines 15 - 32)
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- Love Poem for a Wife – 1 by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of Poem: Stanza 4 (Lines 33 - 44)
- Love Poem for a Wife – 1 by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of Poem: Stanza 5 (Lines 45 - 69)
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- Love Poem for a Wife – 1 by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of Poem: Stanza 6 (Lines 70 - 81)
- A Passage to India by E. M. Foster: Part 2- Caves (Chapter 12 to 20)
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- A Passage to India by E. M. Foster: Part 2- Caves (Chapter 21 to 32)
- A Passage to India by E. M. Foster: Part 3- Temple
Samll-Scale Reflections on a Great House [10 Notes- 2% Effort]
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- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: The Poem
- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (1 - 6)
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- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (7 - 13)
- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (14 - 19)
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- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (20 - 29)
- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (30 - 38)
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- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (40 - 52)
- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (53 - 65)
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- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (66 - 77)
- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by a K Ramanujan: Analysis of the Poem: Lines (78 - 91)
Obituary [1 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Joseph Conrad [4 Notes- 2% Effort]
James Joyce [4 Notes- 1% Effort]
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [4 Notes- 1% Effort]
D.H. Lawrence [3 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Sons and Lovers [3 Notes- Negligible Effort]
E.M. Forster [4 Notes- 1% Effort]
Virginia Woolf [6 Notes- 2% Effort]
Mrs Dalloway [6 Notes- 2% Effort]
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- Edward Franklin Alby - Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Major Writers and Their Works: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, and Yeats
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- To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf, a Brief Introduction and Quotes
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: Biography, Historical Context
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- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: Character List; Summary Section 1 to 4
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: Summary Section 5 to 9
Raja Rao [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Kanthapura [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
V.S. Naipal [2 Notes- 1% Effort]
A House for Mr. Biswas [2 Notes- 1% Effort]
Modernism [3 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Poets of the Thirties [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Stream-Of-Consciousness Novel [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Absurd Drama [4 Notes- Negligible Effort]
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- The Emperor Jones
- 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
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- Major Writers and Their Works: Hughes, Heaney, Ibsen, and Greene, Wells, Golding, Angry Young Man, Theatre of the Absurd, Pinter, Bond
- Absurd Drama: Features & Examples
Colonialism and Post-Colonialism [3 Notes- 1% Effort]
Indian Writing in English [39 Notes- 12% Effort]
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- Rudyard Kipling: Introduction and Works
- Indian English
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- Indian English Literature
- Drama in India: An Introduction
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- New Literature in English
- Sanskrit Drama: An Overview
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- Otherness and Literature
- Ancient Tamil Drama: An Overview
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- Natyashastra and Rasa
- Kalidasa: Abhignana Shakuntalam
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- Sudraka: Mrichhakatika
- Comparative Literature: Drama in India
- 7
- Minority Discourses and New Writings in English
- Rise of Bhasha: Great Traditions and Little Traditions; Western Impact and Indian Response; Cultural Politics and Hybridity
- 8
- Theatre: Architecture, Apparatus, Acting; Censorship and Spectatorship; Translations and Adaptations
- Diaspora, Home and New English Literatures
- 9
- Parsi Theatre
- Dinabandhu Moitra՚s Neel Darpan
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- Tracing Dispersions/Movements and Claiming Spaces: Articulation of Diaspora
- Gurjada Appa Rao: Kanyasulkam
- 11
- Rabindranath Tagore: Theory and Plays: Post Office Muktadhara/Rakta Karabi/Chitra
- Indian English Writings in the World
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- Bharati Sarabhai՚s the Well of the People
- Bijon Bhattacharya: Nabanna
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- Utpal Dutt: Kallol
- Writing the Colony: Tom Stoppard՚s Indian Ink
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- Life Writings: Articulating Sexual Identities
- Dalit Writings and New Literatures
- 15
- Dharamvir Bharati՚s Andha Yug
- Vijay Tendulkar՚s Shantata, Court Chalu Aahe
- 16
- Badal Sircar: Micchil
- Mohan Rakesh՚s Ashad Ka Ek Din
- 17
- Ratan Thiyam: Chakravyuha & Kanhailal Heisnam: Pebet
- Dina Mehta: Brides Are Not for Burning; Shaonli Mitra: Nathabati Ananthabat
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- Form, Content, and Language: Street Theatre in India
- Habib Tanveer՚s Charandas Chor & Dakxin Bajrange Chahra՚s Budhan Bolta Hai
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- Mahesh Dattani: Tara
- Satish Alekar՚s Begum Barve
- 20
- Manjula Padmanabhan՚s Harvest
Marxist Approach [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Psychoanalytical Approach [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Feminist Approach [9 Notes- 3% Effort]
- 1
- Gender Criticism: Concept, Characteristics, Criticism
- Womanism: Concept, History, the Concept of Womanism (According to Alice Walker)
- 2
- Gynocriticism
- Simone De Beauvoir
- 3
- Class, Caste, Gender: Intersections in New Writings in English
- Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Helen Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Spectre of Lacan
- 4
- Women Pitched Against Power Structures and Male Prejudices: Kate Millet, Juliet Mitchell
- Feminism in the Second Wave: Simone De Beauvoir, Germaine Greer
- 5
- Julia Kristeva: Tel Quel, Feminist Theory, Role in Semiotics and Psychoanalysis
Post-Modernism [6 Notes- 2% Effort]
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- The French Lieutenant՚s Woman: A Brief Introduction, Plot & Summary
- Check Out the Topic & Subtopic: Concept, Characteristics, Philosophical Absurdism, Notable Works of Absurdist Fiction
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- Imagism: Concept, Emergence, Characteristics, Decline
- Postmodernist Literature: Concept of Postmodernism, Characteristics of Postmodern Literature
- 3
- Magical Realism: Concept, Characteristics- Supernatural Elements, Realistic Setting, Authorial Reticence, Political Critique, Metafiction
- Literature and the Condition of Postmodernity: Lyotard, Fredric Jameson
Renaissance [12 Notes- 2% Effort]
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- The Renaissance - Re-Birth or Reawakening
- The Renaissance - Leonardo Da Vinci
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- The Renaissance - Invention of Printing
- The Renaissance - Caxton in His Printing Press Showing First Print to King Edward
- 3
- The Renaissance - The Canterbury Tales Printed by Caxton
- 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)
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- Backgrounds to the Study of Renaissance Drama
- Elizabethan Poetry & Age: Political & Cultural Background, Renaissance & Reformation, Elizabethan Poetry, Sir Philip Sidney, Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
- 5
- Renaissance Criticism
- Renaissance
- 6
- Renaissance: Important Writers
- Chief Characteristics of Renaissance & Its Impact
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama [14 Notes- 5% Effort]
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- Jacobean Drama: Ben Jonson
- Jacobean Drama: George Chapman; Beaumont & Fletcher
- 2
- Jacobean Drama: John Webster
- William Shakespeare: Biography, Critics of Shakespeare
- 3
- Midsummers Night՚s Dream by William Shakespeare: Plot Summary of “a Midsummer Night՚s Dream” - Part 1
- Midsummers Night՚s Dream by William Shakespeare: Plot Summary of “a Midsummer Night՚s Dream” - Part 2 & Part 3
- 4
- Midsummers Night՚s Dream by William Shakespeare: Plot Summary of “a Midsummer Night՚s Dream” - Part 4 & Part 5
- The Life and Literary Contributions of Christopher Marlowe
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- Dido Queen of Carthage: Christopher Marlowe
- Tamburlaine: Christopher Marlowe
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- The Jew of Malta: Christopher Marlowe
- Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe
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- Edward II: Christopher Marlowe
- Elizabethan Drama: Famous Plays, Popular Dramatists
Metaphysical Poetry [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Epic and the Mock-Epic [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Neo-Classicism [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
Satire [2 Notes- Negligible Effort]
The Romantic Movement [14 Notes- 4% Effort]
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- William Blake: The Tiger: The Tiger, the Lamb
- 18th Century Women Poets
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- 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
- Fundamental Tenets of Romanticism
- 3
- William Wordsworth: Important Features of His Poetic Expression, Critics on William Words Worth, the Prelude
- William Blake: The Lamb, the Shepherd, the Divine Image, Holy Thursday, Songs of Experience, Earth՚s Answer, the Tyger, the Human Abstract
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- John Stuart Mill: Mill՚s Concept of Poetry and Subjection of Women, His Contribution to English Literature
- Algernon Charles Swinburne: Works
- 5
- Christina Rossetti: An Apple Gathering, Dead Before Death and a Birthday
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Pre Raphaelite-Movement and the Blessed Damozel
- 6
- Elizabeth Barret Browning: Cry of the Children and Aurora Leigh
- John Keats: Literary Career, Themes in Keats՚s Major Poems
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- Dylan Thomas: A Brief Introduction, Neo-Romanticism, and Imagery
- William Blake