UPHESC Assistant Professor Self-paced Course

Course Content

UNIT-I : Literature and Society

Renaissance and Reformation

34:36
Restoration

14:33
Neo-classical Period

29:33
Victorian Period

28:34
Modern Period

22:20
Post-Modern Period

14:00

UNIT-II : British Drama

C. Marlowe : Doctor Faustus

01:32:15
C. Marlowe : The Jew of Malta

20:54
Ben Jonson : Everyman in His Humour

38:58
W. Shakespeare : Hamlet Part 1

36:20
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 2

35:10
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 3

28:27
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 4

36:52
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 5

34:36
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 6

42:19
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 7

42:25
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 8

24:22
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 9

44:41
W. Shakespeare : King Lear

01:33:07
W. Shakespeare : The Twelfth Night

31:28
William Shakespeare : AS You Like It (RECORDING by KV)

27:09
W. Shakespeare : Tempest Part 1

01:01:20
William Shakespeare – Tempest Part 2

37:35
Willam Shakespeare – Tempest Analysis

14:05
William Shakespeare Henry IV

58:08
Henry IV Part 2

31:16
John Dryden : All For Love

18:37
W. Congreve : The Way of the World

16:13
John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi

16:20
John Galsworthy : Strife, Escape

22:09
George Bernard Shaw : Candida

17:22
George Bernard Shaw : Saint Joan

23:25
George Bernard Shaw : Man and Superman

21:55
John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World

19:46
T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral

50:15
Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

16:05
John Osborne : Look Back in Anger

24:06
Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party

19:03
Arnold Wesker : Roots

01:19:13
Hero as Poet by Carlyle

27:15

UNIT-III : British Prose and Fiction

Francis Bacon – Of Truth

34:41
Francis Bacon – Of Studies

29:29
Francis Bacon – Of Marriage and Single Life (RECORDING by KV)

01:14:26
Francis Bacon – Of Regimen of Health (to be uploaded)
Francis Bacon’s Essays

16:03
John Milton- Areopagitica

21:56
Addison and Steele – Essays dealing with Coverly Papers from ‘The Spectator’

23:29
Charles Lamb – Dream Children (No PDF)

15:40
Charles Lamb’s Essays

29:29
Thomas Carlyle – The Hero as a Poet

27:16
Hazlitt’s Essays Public Opinion, On Reading Old Books, On Reading New Books

26:53
T. B Macaulay-Minutes on Education (1835)

33:06
Virginia Woolf- “A Room of One’s Own”

01:16:53
George Orwell-Politics and English Language

19:29
Henry Fielding-Joseph Andrews

20:08
Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice

23:15
Charles Dickens-Great Expectations

21:38
Charles Dickens-A Tale of Two Cities

28:17
George Eliot-Middlemarch

25:00
Thomas Hardy-Tess of the D’Urbervilles

16:34
D.H Lawrence-Sons and Lovers

15:56
Graham Greene-The Power and the Glory

16:64
William Golding-Lord of the Flies

26:14
Irish Murdoch-The Sea

29:19

UNIT-IV : British Poetry

G. Chaucer-The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

53:42
E.Spenser-The Faerie Queene Book 1

27:01
John Donne-The Canonization

17:04
John Donne-The Flea

14:55
John Donne-A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

13:45
John Donne-Go and Catch Falling Star

10:19
John Donne-A Hymn to God the Father

09:50
Paradise Lost Book I

41:37
Paradise Lost Book 2

29:11
Dryden-Absalom and Achitophel

19:19
Pope-The Rape of Lock

17:11
William Blake-London

14:49
Thomas Gray-Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

01:27:54
William Wordsworth-The Prelude Book 1 & Tintern Abbey

01:36:43
S.T Coleridge-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

30:45
S.T Coleridge (Kubla Khan)

20:38
P.B Shelley-Ode to the West Wind (CAPSULE VIDEO by Heena Wadhwani)

06:27
P.B Shelley-Adonais

27:18
PB Shelley-England in 1819

12:44
John Keats-Ode on a Grecian Urn

19:37
John Keats-Ode to Autumn

17:11
A.Tennyson-Lady of Shallot

11:28
A.Tennyson-Ulysses

05:38
A.Tennyson-The Princess

11:28
A.Tennyson-The Lotos Eaters

14:14
Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra

25:12
Robert Browning-Prospice

10:49
Robert Browning – A Grammarian’s Funeral and The Last Ride Together

32:57
Robert Browning-My Last Duchess
Matthew Arnold-The Scholar Gypsy

01:50:50
Matthew Arnold-Thyrsis

14:09
Matthew Arnold-Dover Beach

58:54
W.B Yeats-Easter 1916 (NO PDF)

22:35
W.B Yeats -The Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium

01:12:37
W.B Yeats-A Prayer for my Daughter

21:57
W.B Yeats-Among School Children

32:27
W.B Yeats-Lapis Lazuli,Byzantium

31:58
T.S Eliot-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

34:50
T.S Eliot-The Waste Land

01:33:20
Burnt Norton by TS Eliot

33:55
TS Eliot Love Song

34:50
W.H Auden-Petition, Consider, The Shield of Achilles, Partition

40:46
W.H Auden-In Memory of W.B Yeats

42:29
W.H Auden-The Unknown Citizen

18:51
Philip Larkin’s Poems

17:16
Philip Larkin-Church Going

01:09:43
Crow by Ted Hughes

14:06
Ted Hughes-Hawk Roasting

13:26
Ted Hughes-The Thought Fox

32:21
Areopagitica by Milton

21:56
Dennis Brutus_A Common Hate

14:44
Your Attention Please by Porter

13:31
Politics and the English language_Orwell

19:29
Prelude & Tintern Abbey

01:36:43

UNIT-V : Literary Theory and Criticism

Aristotle-Poetics

01:10:30
Longinus-On the Sublime (Uploaded under live class section -Literary Criticism 1)
J.Dryden- An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (Uploaded under live class section -Literary Criticism 2)
Dr. Johnson- Preface to Shakespeare(Uploaded under live class section -Literary Criticism 3)
W.Wordsworth-Preface to Lyrical Ballads (Uploaded under live class section -Literarry Criticism 3)

20:02
S.T Coleridge-Biographia Literaria (uploaded under live class session Literary Criticism 4)
Matthew Arnold-Study of Poetry

42:27
T.S Eliot-Tradition and Individual Talent(Uploaded under live revision class)
Literary Criticism T.S ELIOT

01:39:17
IA Richards – Principles of Literary Criticism and Two Uses of Language (RECORDING by KV)

59:54
F R Leavis (Uploaded under Live Revision Sessions)
Practical Criticism

UNIT-VI : Literary Theory and Literary Criticism

Structuralism 1

01:18:16
Structuralism 2- Myth Criticism

01:26:19
Structuralism 3

31:38
LT 6 Feminism 2 (11/11/2024)

01:07:42
Poststructuralism 1

52:26
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction Theory

01:21:38
Deconstruction (Roland Barthes) + Postmodernism

01:14:27
LT Postmodernism 2 (Rise of Postmodernism)

01:22:59
Psychoanalytic Theory 1

01:19:16
Psychoanalytic Theory 2

01:22:53
LT 5 Marxism 1

01:27:51
Marxism 2

01:15:14
LT 6 Feminism 1

01:23:01
LT7 New Historicism

01:20:02
LT 8 Postcolonialism 1

01:15:32
Postcolonialsm 2

01:20:17
Postcolonialism 3

01:25:29
LT9 Reader Response Theory

01:22:42
Rasa Theory

50:39
Dhvani Theory

49:31
Cultural Studies 1

02:28:54
Cultural Studies 2

01:54:26
Cultural Studies 3

01:52:51

UNIT-VII : American Literature

Each and All by Emerson

22:28
R.W Emerson-Hamatreya and Brahma

18:18
Emerson Over-Soul

19:41
Walt Whitman-One’s Self I Sing, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

31:21
Whitman_Passage to India and Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

30:37
Emily Dickinson- Four Poems

26:31
Robert Frost- Birches, Mending wall, Stopping by Woods, Road not taken, Mowing, The Death of the Hired Man

32:57
Wallace Stevens- Poems

20:36
Eugene O’Neill- The Hairy Ape

41:16
Tennessee Williams-The Glass Menagerie part 1

54:38
Tennessee Williams Glass Menagerie part 2

01:21:51
Arthur Miller-Death of a Salesman

25:16
N.Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter

14:47
E.Hemingway-The Old Man and the Sea

01:48:06
Mark Twain-The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

17:14
H.D Thoreau-Civil Disobedience, Moby Dick and Emperor Jones

02:25:36
Civil Disobedience by Thoreau

41:53
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

23:10
The Emperor Jones by O’Neill

21:57
Whitman’s One’s Self and Lilac

31:21
Emily Dickinson Four Poems

26:31

UNIT-VIII : Indian Literature in English

Toru Dutt-Lakshman

29:21
Toru Dutt-The Lotus

11:19
Toru Dutt-Our Casuarian Tree

21:10
R.N Tagore-Gitanjali

01:03:01
M.K Gandhi-Hind Swaraj

18:19
Swami Vivekanand-Chicago Lecture

58:49
Sarojini Naidu-Planquin Bearers( to be uploaded)
Sarojini Naidu-Bangle-Sellers

14:19
Sarojini Naidu-Weavers

07:34
Sarojini Naidu-The Flute-Players

14:34
Sarojini Naidu-Of Vrindavan(to be uploaded)
Sri Aurodindo-Savitri Canto 1

38:26
Sri Aurobindo-The Future Poetry

15:54
Sri Aurobindo-Is India Civilized

24:00
Nissim Ezekiel A Time to Change

22:17
Nissim Ezekiel-Poet,Lover, Birdwatcher(to be)
Nissim Ezekiel- Background,Casually

20:23
Kamala Das-An Introduction

27:51
Kamala Das-My Grandmother’s House

11:22
Summer in Calcutta by Kamala Das

11:08
A.K Ramanujan-Self Portrait and A River

17:43
AK Ramanujan Fall and Fear No Fall

20:58
Raja Rao-Kanthapura

18:25
R.K Narayan-The Guide

18:21
Anita Desai-Cry the Peacock

28:53
Shashi Deshpande-That Long Silence

09:49
Nissim Ezekiel-Enterprise

16:34

UNIT-IX : Linguistics, Phonetics & Modern Grammar

UNIT-X : New Literatures in English

Canadian Literature

African and Caribbean Literature

Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart

18:25
Dennis Brutus- A Common Hate Enriched our Love and US

14:45
Gabriel Okara-The Mystic Drum

16:36
David Diop-Africa

21:42
Derek Walcott-Ruins Of a Great House

21:13
Wole Soyinka-Lion and the Jewel

21:53
Edward Kamau Brathwaite_Tizzic

13:17
Nadine Gordimer_English Language, Literature

42:13
Judas_Mervyn Morris

15:34

LIVE REVISION SESSIONS

British Literature Periods (19/02/2025)

01:22:05
Restoration & Neoclassical Period

01:03:02
Neoclassical Drama (24/05/2025)

54:48
Romantic Period (26/02/2025)

47:53
Victorian Period (28/02/2025)

57:58
Paper1 Overview on Research Aptitude

49:11
Paper 1 Research Aptitude 2 (03/03/2025)

57:28
Modern Period (05/03/2025)

52:31
BL Modern Period 2 (07/03/2025)

49:25
Postmodern Period (10/03/2025)

55:35
Revision on Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson (12/03/2025)

57:32
Literary Criticism 1 (14/03/2025)

01:10:30
John Donnes Poem Revision (17/03/2025)

01:01:20
Revision Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Poems (19/03/2025)

01:07:02
Literary Criticism 1 (19/03/2025)

23:23
Literary Criticism 2 (19/03/2025)

47:22
Revision Marlowe & Shakespeare (20/03/2025)

55:46
Revision Poems of Robert Frost (21/03/2025)

01:06:17
Things Fall Apart, Voss, Oldman & The Sea (26/03/2025)

53:45
Literary Criticism 3 – Dr Johnson & Wordsworth (27/03/2025)

01:11:47
The Tempest (28/03/2025)

01:32:55
Literary Criticism 4 – S T Coleridge (01/04/2025)

01:05:42
Revision session on poems of Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo, A K Ramanujan (02/04/2025)

57:56
Revision Victorian Novels (03/04/2025)

46:01
Revision Literary Criticism (04/04/2025)

56:46
Revision Woolf, Orwell, Fielding and Austen (09/04/2025)

52:22
Wallace Stevens- Poems

01:20:23
Literary Criticism Arnold & Eliot

58:27
Look Back in Anger (11/04/2025)

01:39:11
Literary Criticism TS Eliot, F R Leavis

01:39:17

Post-Colonial

MODEL TEST

TOPIC WISE QUIZ

UNIT II BRITISH DRAMA
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World
T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
John Dryden’s All for Love or the World Well Lost (1677)
Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1
Shakespeare’s Henry 4 – Part 2
William Congreve’s The Way of the World
John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
John Galsworthy’s Strife
Ben Johnson – Every Man in His Humour
Christopher Marlowe’s “The Jew of Malta”
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
John Galsworthy – Escape
UNIT III BRITISH PROSE & FICTION
Francis Bacon’s Of Studies
Charles Lamb’s Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
Charles Lamb’s The Convalescent
Charles Lamb’s Poor Relations
Charles Lamb: Imperfect Sympathies
Of Truth
Of Marriage and Single Life
George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Thomas Carlyle’s “The Hero as a Poet
William Hazlitt’s essay Public Opinion
William Hazlitt’s On Reading Old Books
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
T. B. Macaulay: Minutes on Education (1835)
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
Graham Greene: The Powers and the Glory
Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews
Iris Murdoch: The Sea
UNIT IV BRITISH POETRY
Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
John Donne – Canonization
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock
Module 1 : Poetry – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
John Keats-Ode on a Nightingale
Lord Tennyson – Ulysses
Module 1 : Poetry – My Last Duchess
Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy
Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach
W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
W.B.Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Philip Larkin’s “Ambulances”
Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings”
Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes – Thought Fox
Ted Hughes’s Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow (1970)
T. S. Eliot: Burnt Norton
T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
W.H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen.”
W. H. Auden. Partition
W.H. Auden’s The Shield of Achilles
W. H. Auden: Consider
W. H. Auden: Petition
Robert Browning: Rabbi Ben Ezra
Tennyson: The Princess
Tennyson: The Lotos Eaters
Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott
P. B. Shelley: England in 1819
P. B. Shelley: Adonais
P. B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
Wordsworth: The Prelude Book 1
W.B.Yeats: Byzantium
W. B. Yeats’ “Among School Children”
W. B. Yeats: “A Prayer for My Daughter”
W. B. Yeats’s “Lapis Lazuli”
W. B. Yeats: “Easter 1916”
Matthew Arnold: “Thyrsis”
Matthew Arnold: “The Scholar-Gipsy
Robert Browning: A Grammarian’s Funeral
Robert Browning: Prospice
Robert Browning: “The Last Ride Together”
UNIT V: LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
Poetics
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Biographia Literaria
Study of Poetry
UNIT VI LITERARY THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Postcolonialism
Feminism
Russian Formalism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Rasa Theory
Dhvani Theory
Deconstruction
Marxism
Structuralism
Post-Structuralism
UNIT VII AMERICAN LITERATURE
Module II – The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
Module 2 : Drama – Death of a Salesman
UNIT VIII INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
An Introduction
Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House
Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1 to 20 from Gitanjali
Nissim Ezekiel – Background Casually
A.K. Ramanujan – A River

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Course Content

UNIT-I : Literature and Society

Renaissance and Reformation

Restoration

Neo-classical Period

Victorian Period

Modern Period

Post-Modern Period

UNIT-II : British Drama

C. Marlowe : Doctor Faustus

C. Marlowe : The Jew of Malta

Ben Jonson : Everyman in His Humour

W. Shakespeare : Hamlet Part 1

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 2

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 3

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 4

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 5

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 6

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 7

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 8

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 9

W. Shakespeare : King Lear

W. Shakespeare : The Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare : AS You Like It (RECORDING by KV)

W. Shakespeare : Tempest Part 1

William Shakespeare – Tempest Part 2

Willam Shakespeare – Tempest Analysis

William Shakespeare Henry IV

Henry IV Part 2

John Dryden : All For Love

W. Congreve : The Way of the World

John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi

John Galsworthy : Strife, Escape

George Bernard Shaw : Candida

George Bernard Shaw : Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw : Man and Superman

John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World

T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral

Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot

John Osborne : Look Back in Anger

Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party

Arnold Wesker : Roots

Hero as Poet by Carlyle

UNIT-III : British Prose and Fiction

Francis Bacon – Of Truth

Francis Bacon – Of Studies

Francis Bacon – Of Marriage and Single Life (RECORDING by KV)

Francis Bacon – Of Regimen of Health (to be uploaded)

Francis Bacon’s Essays

John Milton- Areopagitica

Addison and Steele – Essays dealing with Coverly Papers from ‘The Spectator’

Charles Lamb – Dream Children (No PDF)

Charles Lamb’s Essays

Thomas Carlyle – The Hero as a Poet

Hazlitt’s Essays Public Opinion, On Reading Old Books, On Reading New Books

T. B Macaulay-Minutes on Education (1835)

Virginia Woolf- “A Room of One’s Own”

George Orwell-Politics and English Language

Henry Fielding-Joseph Andrews

Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens-Great Expectations

Charles Dickens-A Tale of Two Cities

George Eliot-Middlemarch

Thomas Hardy-Tess of the D’Urbervilles

D.H Lawrence-Sons and Lovers

Graham Greene-The Power and the Glory

William Golding-Lord of the Flies

Irish Murdoch-The Sea

UNIT-IV : British Poetry

G. Chaucer-The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

E.Spenser-The Faerie Queene Book 1

John Donne-The Canonization

John Donne-The Flea

John Donne-A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

John Donne-Go and Catch Falling Star

John Donne-A Hymn to God the Father

Paradise Lost Book I

Paradise Lost Book 2

Dryden-Absalom and Achitophel

Pope-The Rape of Lock