
About Course
This course is designed for Kerala PSC HSST Exam by Dr. Kalyani Vallath. We will provide you with live classes, recorded videos, quizzes and notes as per the exam syllabus.
Schedule for Live classes by Dr. Kalyani Vallath will be provided. Recorded detailed videos to supplement the live classes will also be provided. Watch the recorded videos as per schedule before attending the live classes.
Course Content
Videos for Extra Watching
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Introduction
01:54:01 -
Overview BL 14-17 C
01:53:05 -
Overview BL 18-19 C
01:53:55 -
Overview of 20th Century British Literature
01:14:07 -
Overview of American Literature
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
01:05:46 -
My Last Duchess
01:17:50 -
Riders to the Sea
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Prothalamion
01:12:43 -
Lycidas 1
33:30 -
Lycidas 2
31:27 -
Lycidas 3
01:09:46
Criticism & Theory Course
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Day 1 Introduction to Criticism
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Day 2 Ancient Criticism
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Day 3 Medieval & Renaissance Criticism
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Day 4: Neoclassicism
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Day 5: Romantic Criticism
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Day 6: Victorian Criticism
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Day 6.2: Victorian Criticism 2
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Day 7: Formalism & New Criticism
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Day 7.2: Formalism & New Criticism 2
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Day 8: Structuralism, Semiotics & Myth Criticism
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Day 8.2: Structuralism 2
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Day 9: Poststructuralism & Deconstruction
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Day 10: Modernism & Postmodernism
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Day 11: Psychoanalytic Criticism
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Day 11.2: Lacan
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Day 12: Marxist Criticism
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Day 13: Feminism
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Day 14: New Historicism & Cultural Materialism
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Day 15: Post Colonialism
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Day 16 : Reader Response Criticism, Phenomenology & Hermeneutics
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Day 17: Cultural Studies 1
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Day 17.2: Cultural Studies 2
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Day 7.3: T S Eliot Criticism
01:28:15
Module 1: From Early English Literature to 18th Century
From Early English Literature to 18th Century
For Detailed study
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Thomas Grey – Elegy Written in a Country churchyard
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Francis Bacon – Of Studies, Of Truth
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John Donne – Batter My Heart, Canonization
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Milton – Lycidas
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Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock 1
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Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock 2
33:07 -
Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock 3
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Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock 4
54:28 -
John Dryden – Macflecknoe
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Milton – Paradise Lost Book 9- 1
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Milton – Paradise Lost Book 9- 2
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Milton – Paradise Lost Book 9- 3
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Milton – Paradise Lost Book 9- 4
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 18
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 30
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 116- 1
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William Shakespeare – Sonnet 116- 2
14:07 -
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night 1
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William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night 2
55:23 -
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night 3
29:02 -
Francis Bacon – Of Marriage and Single Life
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William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 1
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William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 2
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William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 3
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William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 4
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William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 5
34:37 -
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 6
42:20 -
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 7
42:26 -
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 8
24:23 -
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 9
44:42 -
Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books
58:13 -
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus 1
47:43 -
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus 2
49:01 -
The Red Red Rose, The Tyger & The Lamb
01:25:02
Module 2
For non detailed study
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Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal
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Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to Canterbury Tales Part 1
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Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to Canterbury Tales Part 2
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Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
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Henry Fielding – Tom Jones
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Beowulf
27:36 -
Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy 1
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Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy 2
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Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion 1
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Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion 2
40:05 -
Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion 3
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Samuel Richardson – Pamela 1
50:17 -
Samuel Richardson – Pamela 2
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Samuel Richardson – Pamela 3
27:55 -
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe 1
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Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe 2
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Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe 3
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Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe 4
48:55 -
Ballads – Sir Patrick Spence, Chevy Chase
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Sir Thomas More – Utopia
01:17:48
Module 3: The Romantic and Victorian Period
The Romantic and Victorian Period
For Detailed study
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Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach
58:35 -
Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
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Lord Tennyson – Ulysses
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Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan
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William Wordsworth – Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
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John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale
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P B Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
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Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon 1
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Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon 2
45:03 -
Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon 3
26:47 -
Lord Tennyson – Lotos Eaters
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Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy
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Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto
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G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty
48:55 -
Thomas de Quincey – On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
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Charles Lamb – Oxford in the Vacation
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Charles Lamb – Dream Children
15:41
Module 4
Non detailed study
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Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
01:26:05 -
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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PB Shelley – The Cenci
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Mary Shelley – Frankenstein 1
58:23 -
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein 2
53:58 -
Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
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Jane Austen – Mansfield Park 1
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Jane Austen – Mansfield Park 2
52:57 -
Jane Austen – Mansfield Park 3
42:29 -
Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
01:09:42 -
Oulada Equiano – The Interesting Narrative
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William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
01:53:17
Module 5: Twentieth Century British Literature
Twentieth Century British Literature
For Detailed study
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G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion
01:41:32 -
Virginia Woolf – Modern Fiction
01:12:03 -
T.S. Eliot – The Wasteland 1
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T.S. Eliot – The Wasteland 2
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T.S. Eliot – The Wasteland 3
01:43:45 -
Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
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W.B. Yeats -The Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium
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Dylan Thomas – Poem in October
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Sylvia Plath – Daddy
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Philip Larking – Church Going
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Ted Hughes – The Thought Fox
32:23 -
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
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J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World
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W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats
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Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway
32:33 -
T.S. Eliot – Tradition and the Individual Talent Part 1
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T.S. Eliot – Tradition and the Individual Talent Part 2
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T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
01:53:17
Module 6
For non detailed study
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Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness 1
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Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness 2
46:26 -
Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness 2.1
47:07 -
Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness 3
26:13 -
John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway 1
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Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway 2
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Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway 3
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James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1
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James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2
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James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3
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George Orwell – 1984- 1
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George Orwell – 1984- 2
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George Orwell – 1984- 3
46:08 -
George Orwell – 1984- 4
30:44 -
Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus 1
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Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus 2
57:41 -
Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus 3
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Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus 4
35:29 -
Caryll Churchill – Top Girls 1
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Caryll Churchill – Top Girls 2
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James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Live)
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F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition
01:53:17
Module 7: Indian Literature
for Detailed study
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Theory of Rasa and Dhwani
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Manjula Padmanabhan – Harvest
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Mahesh Dattani – Dance Like a Man 1
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Mahesh Dattani – Dance Like a Man 2
28:55 -
The Trance of Waiting, A River, The Striders, Background, Casually, My Grandmother’s House, Freaks and Coromandel Fishers
01:58:43 -
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
01:23:32 -
Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali 1-10
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Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali 11-20
53:21
Module 8
for Non detailed study
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Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session 1
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Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session 2
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Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session 3
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Vijay Tendulakar – The Court is in Session 4
36:04 -
R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days 1
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R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days 2
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Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children 1
50:01 -
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children 2
32:50 -
Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children 3
34:00 -
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things 1
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Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things 2
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Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things 3
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Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things 4
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Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger 1
49:20 -
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger 2
34:31 -
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger 3
32:18 -
A.K. Ramanujan – Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay 1
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A.K. Ramanujan – Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay 2
01:25:05 -
Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable 1
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Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable 2
28:59 -
Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable 3
33:17 -
Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable 4
01:06:56 -
Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope 1
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Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope 2
46:42 -
Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope 3
01:10:04 -
Anita Desai – Clear Light of Day
01:40:41
Module 9: American Literature
American Literature
for Detailed study
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Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
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Eugene O Neil – Emperor Jones Part 1
56:36 -
Eugene O Neil – Emperor Jones Part 2
54:45 -
Tennesee Williams – The Glass Menagerie Part 1
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Tennesee Williams – The Glass Menagerie Part 2
01:22:01 -
Robert Frost – Home Burial
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Walt Whitman – Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
46:33 -
Emily Dickinson – I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
39:25 -
Wallace Stephens – Sunday Morning
30:02 -
Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Woman
23:38
Module 10
for Non detailed study
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Thoreau – Civil Disobedience 1
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Thoreau – Civil Disobedience 2
01:03:47 -
E E Cummings – Buffalo Bill’s
49:37 -
Allan Ginsberg – America 1
01:25:09 -
Allan Ginsberg – America 2
41:14 -
Gertrude Stein – Daughter
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Herman Melville – Moby Dick 1
41:30 -
Herman Melville – Moby Dick 2
52:49 -
Herman Melville – Moby Dick 3
01:13:18 -
Herman Melville – Moby Dick 4
01:32:46 -
Herman Melville – Moby Dick 5
53:28 -
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
55:29 -
Thoreau – Civil Disobedience 3
29:25 -
Arthur Miller – Death of a Sales Man 1
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Arthur Miller – Death of a Sales Man 2
31:08 -
Discussion – Buffallo Bills, America, Daughter
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Discussion – Civil Disobedience, Moby Dick, Emperor Jones
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Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea 1
35:38 -
Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea 2
15:09 -
Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea 3
01:48:06 -
Emerson – Self Reliance
01:03:50 -
Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
49:56
Module 11 Structure of English Language and Linguistics
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English Language and Linguistics Day 1
01:31:47 -
English language and Linguistics Day 2
01:57:46 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 3
01:09:19 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 3.2
35:45 -
English language and Linguistics Day 4
02:06:48 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 5
02:00:24 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 6
02:01:38 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 7
01:43:53 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 8
01:51:53 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 9
01:51:42 -
English Language and Linguistics Day 10
01:59:19
Module 12 English Language Teaching
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English language Teaching 1
18:26 -
English language Teaching 2
58:05 -
English language Teaching 3
01:31:03 -
English Language Teaching 4
01:39:32 -
English Language Teaching 5
01:51:04 -
English Language Teaching 6
01:10:39
Module 13 Literary Criticism and Theory
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Aristotle & Philip Sydney
01:47:36 -
Philip Sydney & Coleridge
01:56:23 -
Coleridge & T.S. Eliot
01:52:19 -
T.S. Eliot & Northrop Frye
01:33:30 -
Northrop Frye
01:56:35 -
Marxist Criticism
01:53:45 -
Karl Marx & Edmund Wilson
01:50:04 -
Raymond Williams & Cleanth Brookes
01:40:08 -
Sigmund Freud
01:48:50 -
Virginia Woolf
01:37:59 -
Elaine Showalter
02:00:06 -
Elaine Showalter & Helen Cixous
01:51:27 -
Helen Cixous & Eve Sedgwick
01:52:40 -
Eve Sedgwick & Edward W. Said
01:55:17 -
Edward W. Said
01:59:24 -
Jacques Derrida
02:05:28 -
Jacques Derrida & Michel Foucault
01:48:05 -
Michel Foucault & Stephen Greenblatt
01:55:30 -
Jurgen Habermas
01:55:13
Module 14 Cultural Studies
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Theodor W. Adorno
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Stuart Hall
01:09:56 -
Laura Mulvey
01:24:26 -
Judith Butler
01:55:30 -
Angela McRobbie
01:55:30
Part II (a) Teaching Aptitude
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Teaching Aptitude Day 1
01:11:51 -
Teaching Aptitude Day 2
01:25:52 -
Teaching Aptitude Day 3
01:47:25 -
Teaching Aptitude Day 4
01:27:43 -
Teaching Aptitude Day 5
01:05:42
Part II (b) Research Aptitude
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Research Aptitude Day 1
01:12:51 -
Research Aptitude Day 2
01:57:20 -
Research Aptitude Day 3
01:58:40 -
Research Aptitude Day 4
01:58:17 -
Research Aptitude Day 5
01:36:07
Part III (a) Salient Features of Indian Constitution
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Constitution Day 1
57:22 -
Constitution Day 2
01:10:16 -
Constitution Day 3
01:21:04 -
Constitution Day 4
01:45:56 -
Constitution Day 5
01:47:57 -
Constitution Day 6
01:31:42 -
Constitution Day 7
02:01:15 -
Constitution Day 8
01:46:47 -
Constitution Day 9
01:22:19 -
Constitution Day 10
01:25:00 -
Constitution Day 11
01:48:47
Part III (b) Social Welfare Legislations and Programmes
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Social Welfare Legislations and Programmes 1
01:37:25 -
Social Welfare Legislations and Programmes 2
01:58:19
Part IV (a) Renaissance in Kerala
Renaissance in Kerala
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Renaissance Day 1
01:57:51 -
Renaissance Day 2
01:50:04 -
Renaissance Day 3
01:54:48 -
Renaissance Day 4
01:57:18 -
Renaissance Day 5
02:11:02 -
Renaissance Day 6
01:23:07 -
Renaissance Day 7
01:35:15 -
Renaissance Day 8
01:36:47 -
Renaissance Day 9
01:57:08 -
Renaissance Day 10
01:56:37 -
Renaissance Day 11
01:27:19 -
Renaissance Day 12
01:36:48 -
Renaissance Day 13
02:03:14 -
Renaissance Day 14
01:15:52 -
Renaissance Day 15
59:34 -
Special Lecture on INC
01:16:58
Part IV (b) General Knowledge and Current Affaires
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Current Affairs 1
01:17:40 -
Current Affairs 2
01:05:44 -
Current Affairs 3
01:20:24 -
Current Affairs 4
01:55:14
Revision Classes
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Revision – Module 1&2
58:20 -
Revision – Module 2&3
53:56 -
Revision – Module 3&4
50:17 -
Revision – Module 4&5
01:04:37 -
Revision – Module 5&6
01:18:04 -
Revision – Module 11
01:06:08 -
Revision – Module 6, 7 & 8 Part 1
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Revision – Module 6, 7 & 8 Part 2
01:05:41
Question Paper Analysis
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Question Paper Analysis
15:12
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