Video Lectures of Crash Course for UGC NET English Literature
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UNIT-I: Drama
| Anglo Saxon Period: History of English Literature 06:06 min |  |
| Anglo Saxon Period: History of English Literature/Major Writers &Works/Beowulf 07:02 min | |
| Anglo Norman Period: History of English Literature/Major Writers and Works 11:55 min | |
| Age of Chaucer: History of English literature 14:41 min | |
| Canterbury Tales: History of English Literature 24:44 min | |
| Age Of Revival: History Of English Literature/Historic Background and major events (Part 1) 10:53 min | |
| Age Of Revival: History Of English Literature/Major Writers & Works(Part 2) 20:20 min | |
| Important One liners on Canterbury Tales: History Of English Literature 11:34 min | |
| Important MCQ'S on Age Of Chaucer: History of English Literature 07:52 min | |
UNIT - II: Poetry
| Literary Group of Poets: History of English Literature 07:34 min | |
| Forms of Poetry: History of English Literature 15:39 min | |
| Forms of Poetry -Mock-Epic: History of English Literature 08:12 min | |
| Forms of Poetry- Epic: History of English Literature 16:45 min | |
| Elegy - Most IMP Facts with Major Elegies: History of English Literature 17:10 min | |
Unit –III: Fiction , short story
| Fiction in Medieval Period: Anglo Norman Age 06:01 min | |
| Fiction in Medieval Period: Age of Chaucer 16:30 min | |
| Fiction in Medieval Period: Age of Revival 22:20 min | |
Unit –IV: Non-Fictional Prose
| Exploring Plato's Philosophy: An In-Depth Analysis of his Works 02:57 min | |
| The Life and Legacy of Venerable Bede: The Father of English History 04:42 min | |
| Alfred the Great: The Visionary King Who Saved England 04:33 min | |
| Exploring Middle English Prose: The Ancren Riwle & The Ayenbite of Inwyt and William Caxton 14:38 min | |
| Thomas Carlyle and His Works 34:21 min | |
| From Archery to Utopia: Diving into the Works of Roger Ascham, Thomas Elyot,and Sir Thomas 11:48 min | |
| Jacobean Era: History of Bible Translations 09:17 min | |
| Jacobean Prose Writers: Burton, Breton, Hall, Overbury and Earle 09:00 min | |
| Francis Bacon as an Essayist: Exploring 'Of Studies' and His Major Works 08:46 min | |
| Charles I, the English Civil War and Eikon Basilikē: A Historical Overview 05:53 min | |
| Prose Writers of the English Civil War Period: Browne, Fuller, Taylor, Walton and Hobbes 12:32 min | |
| John Bunyan and His Masterpiece (The Pilgrim's Progress): Summary; Characters and Analysis 10:06 min | |
| Enlightenment Thinkers: John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Sir William Temple 05:11 min | |
| The Chronicles of Life: Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, Renowned Diarists 06:33 min | |
| Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator Literary Women of the 17th-18th Century 07:12 min | |
| Enlightenment and Neoclassicism: Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, Theism and Deism 15:15 min | |
| The Age of Prose & Reason: Licensing Act of 1737, Clubs and Coffeehouses: Scriblerus & Kit-Cat Clubs 08:14 min | |
| Steele; Addison; and the 18th Century Periodicals: Tatler, The Spectator; Rambler, Idler,Cato 09:38 min | |
| Samuel Johnson: London; The Vanity of Human Wishes, Irene, Dictionary, Rasselas, and his Criticism 19:25 min | |
Unit –V: Language: Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy
| Language Basic concepts theories and pedagogy English in use | Part 1 17:59 min | |
| Language Basic concepts theories and pedagogy English in use |Part 2 11:51 min | |
| Noam Chomsky: Theory of Language | Linguistics in English literature 22:25 min | |
| Literary Theory :Noam Chomsky 12:44 min | |
| English Language Teaching | Linguistics and language Pedagogy 32:36 min | |
Unit –VI: English in India: history, evolution and futures
| English in India History evolution and futures |Charter Act 1813 24:52 min | |
| Macaulay's Minute 1835 20:33 min | |
| Wood's Despatch 1854 12:40 min | |
| Hunter Commission 1882 08:47 min | |
| English in India | UGC NET English literature 13:01 min | |
| English in India History evolution and futures 11:00 min | |
Unit –VII: Cultural Studies
| Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall 05:36 min | |
| Cultural Studies Stephen Greenblatt: On Culture UGC Net English Literature 06:35 min | |
| Raymond Williams Culture materialism and Society 06:29 min | |
| Richard Hoggart 06:58 min | |
| Cultural Studies E. P. Thompson 04:06 min | |
| Antonio Gramsci Crash Course for UGC NET English 05:54 min | |
| Cultural Studies Newly Added UGC - NET in ENGLISH LITERATURE Ziauddin Sardar 06:29 min | |
| New Historicism Criticism Stephen Greenblatt 11:16 min | |
Unit –VIII: Literary Criticism
| Postcolonialism and Edward Said’s Orientalism: Book Analysis 03:54 min | |
| Womanism and Feminism in The Color Purple: Literary Criticism 05:16 min | |
| Liberal Humanism: An Introduction to Literary Criticism 07:57 min | |
| Irony in Literary Criticism: Figure of Speech Analysis 06:32 min | |
| Structuralism in Literature and Linguistics 07:40 min | |
| Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis in Literary Criticism 11:18 min | |
| Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams: Psychoanalytic Criticism 07:26 min | |
| F.R. Leavis and the Canon: Questioning Literary Traditions 08:28 min | |
| Edward Said’s Literary Criticism for UGC NET and Exams 04:53 min | |
| Hermeneutics: Brief Introduction for English Literature Exams 07:37 min | |
| Bakhtin’s Epic and Novel: Studying the Novel’s Methodology 07:27 min | |
| Post-WWII Reader Response Theory: Explained in Hindi 04:40 min | |
| Reader Response Theory Post-WWII: MCQs and Analysis (Part 3) 08:20 min | |
| Reader Response Theory Post-WWII: In-Depth Study (Part 2) 07:50 min | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Part 1) 20:12 min | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Part 2) 09:34 min | |
| Marxist Criticism: Analyzing The Great Gatsby 09:29 min | |
| Feminist Utopia: Essential Novels for English Literature Exams 07:55 min | |
| Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogism in Literary Theory 07:16 min | |
| Mikhail Bakhtin’s Polyphony in Literary Criticism 06:45 min | |
| Mikhail Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque in Literary Theory 09:41 min | |
| T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and Individual Talent: Literary Analysis 11:55 min | |
| T.S. Eliot’s Dissociation of Sensibility: Hindi Explanation 11:38 min | |
| T.S. Eliot’s Objective Correlative: Hindi Literary Criticism 10:01 min | |
| Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: Feminism in Literature 11:30 min | |
| Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak? Postcolonial Criticism 09:10 min | |
| "Bakhtin’s Heteroglossia: Dialogism 12:53 min | |
| Longinus’ On the Sublime: Literary Criticism with MCQs 12:27 min | |
| "Horace’s Ars Poetica: Themes 12:48 min | |
| "Aristotle’s Tragic Theory: Hamartia 20:05 min | |
| New Criticism and Russian Formalism: Detailed Explanation with MCQs 07:24 min | |
| MCQs on New Criticism and Russian Formalism in Literature 10:11 min | |
| First Wave Feminism: Literary Criticism and Gender Studies 08:12 min | |
| Second Wave Feminism: Gender Studies in Literary Criticism 05:06 min | |
| Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze: Visual Pleasure in Cinema and Literature 07:40 min | |
| MCQs on Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze in Film Theory 03:48 min | |
| Auteur Theory: Concepts and Origins in Film Studies 07:06 min | |
| MCQs on Auteur Theory for UGC NET and MA English 04:39 min | |
| Roman Jakobson’s Structuralism: Literary Theory Overview 11:33 min | |
| Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: Part 1 Analysis 18:46 min | |
| "Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonialism: Hybridity 20:21 min | |
| Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: Part 2 Exploration 18:46 min | |
| I.A. Richards’ New Criticism: Literary Theory Revision 06:40 min | |
| Rasa and Dhwani Theories: Indian Literary Criticism 12:15 min | |
| Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Literary Criticism 09:56 min | |
| Jacques Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism 10:11 min | |
| Roland Barthes’ Death of the Author: Deconstruction Theory 08:32 min | |
| Marxist Criticism: Base and Superstructure Analysis 06:24 min | |
| P.B. Shelley’s Romanticism: Literary Theory Insights 09:09 min | |
| F.R. Leavis’ The Great Tradition: Literary Criticism Study 05:38 min | |
Unit –IX: Literary Theory post World War II
| Literary Theories Post World War 05:59 min | |
| New Criticism and Russian Formalism 09:36 min | |
| Structuralism Literary Theory 08:37 min | |
| Post-Structuralism Literary Theory 09:32 min | |
| Psycho Analytical Theory 12:40 min | |
| Archetypal Literary Theory 08:11 min | |
| Feminism Literary Theory. Celebrating Women Power. 12:08 min | |
| MCQs on Literary Theories Post World War: Part-1 06:52 min | |
| MCQs on Literary Theories Post World War: Part -2 07:07 min | |
Unit –X: Research Methods and Materials in English
| Research and it's Types 05:37 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Meaning and Characteristics 09:58 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Positivism and Post Positivism 08:31 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Quantitative and Qualitative 07:46 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Descriptive and Analytical 05:24 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Applied and Fundamental 05:53 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Exploratory and Conclusive 05:19 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Conceptual and Empirical 05:01 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Stages of Research-1 03:41 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Stages of Research-2 13:21 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Stages of Research-3 21:03 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Writing a Proposal 08:35 min | |
| Research Aptitude: Collecting Data 09:13 min | |
