UGC NET English Syllabus
Module 01 · British Literature
12 chapters · 381 lessons
Chapter 01- Old & Middle English (500 TO 1300 AD)
4 lessons
Chapter 02- Age Of Chaucer (1300 TO 1400 AD)
9 lessons
Chapter 03- Age of Revival (1400 to 1550 AD)
19 lessons
POETS
Chapter 04- Elizabethan Age (1550 to 1600 AD)
29 lessons
DRAMATISTS
- Lesson 36: William Shakespeare
- Lesson 37: Christopher Marlowe
- Lesson 38: Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
- Lesson 39: Thomas Nashe
- Lesson 40: Thomas Kyd
- Lesson 41: John Lyly
- Lesson 42: Robert Greene
- Lesson 43: George Peele
- Lesson 44: Thomas Lodge
- Lesson 45: John Heywood Newly Added
- Lesson 46: John Still Newly Added
POETS
PROSE WRITERS
Chapter 05- Jacobean & Caroline Age (1600 to 1640)
35 lessons
PROSE WRITERS
DRAMATISTS
Major Dramatists
- Lesson 66: Ben Jonson
- Lesson 67: John Webster
- Lesson 68: Thomas Middleton
- Lesson 69: Thomas Heywood
- Lesson 70: Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
- Lesson 71: George Chapman
- Lesson 72: Thomas Dekker
Minor Dramatists
Chapter 06- Civil War & Interregnum (1640 to 1660)
11 lessons
Chapter 07- Restoration Age (1660 to 1700 AD)
19 lessons
PROSE WRITERS
DRAMATISTS
Chapter 08- Enlightenment Age (1700 to 1800 AD)
29 lessons
PROSE WRITERS
NOVELISTS
POETS
Major Poets
- Lesson 141: William Blake
- Lesson 142: Alexander Pope
- Lesson 143: Thomas Gray
- Lesson 144: Robert Burns
- Lesson 145: James Thomson
- Lesson 146: Thomas Chatterton
- Lesson 147: Thomas Percy
- Lesson 148: Robert Blair Newly Added
- Lesson 149: William Cowper
- Lesson 150: William Collins
Minor Poets
Newly Added
Chapter 09- Romantic Age (1800 to 1850 AD)
36 lessons
POETS
Major Poets
- Lesson 157: William Wordsworth
- Lesson 158: John Keats
- Lesson 159: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Lesson 160: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lesson 161: Lord Byron
- Lesson 162: Robert Southey
- Lesson 163: John Clare
Minor Poets
Newly AddedPROSE WRITERS
NOVELISTS
- Lesson 181: Jane Austen
- Lesson 182: Walter Scott
- Lesson 183: Mary Shelley
- Lesson 184: Frances Burney (Fanny Burney)
- Lesson 185: Ann Radcliff
- Lesson 186: William Godwin
- Lesson 187: Horace Walpole
- Lesson 188: Thomas Love Peacock Newly Added
- Lesson 189: Maria Edgeworth Newly Added
- Lesson 190: Matthew Lewis
- Lesson 191: Charles Maturin
Chapter 10- Victorian Age (1850 to 1900 AD)
53 lessons
POETS
Major Poets
- Lesson 193: Robert Browning
- Lesson 194: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Lesson 195: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Lesson 196: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Lesson 197: Christina Rossetti
- Lesson 198: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Lesson 199: A.C. Swinburne
- Lesson 200: William Morris
Minor Poets
Newly AddedNOVELISTS
Major Novelists
- Lesson 208: Charles Dickens
- Lesson 209: Thomas Hardy
- Lesson 210: George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
- Lesson 211: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Lesson 212: Charlotte Bronte
- Lesson 213: Anne Bronte
- Lesson 214: Rudyard Kipling
- Lesson 215: Anthony Trollope
- Lesson 216: Emily Bronte (Ellis Bell)
- Lesson 217: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Lesson 218: William Wilkie Collins
- Lesson 219: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Lesson 220: Samuel Butler
- Lesson 221: Benjamin Disraeli Newly Added
- Lesson 222: R.M. Ballantyne Newly Added
- Lesson 223: Bram Stoker
- Lesson 224: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Lesson 225: Arthur Conan Doyle
Minor Novelists
Newly AddedESSAYISTS
Chapter 11- Modern Age (1900 to 1950 AD)
57 lessons
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
- Lesson 246: Virginia Woolf
- Lesson 247: D.H. Lawrence
- Lesson 248: James Joyce
- Lesson 249: E.M. Forster
- Lesson 250: Joseph Conrad
- Lesson 251: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
- Lesson 252: Graham Greene
- Lesson 253: Evelyn Waugh Newly Added
- Lesson 254: Aldous Huxley
- Lesson 255: Arnold Bennett
- Lesson 256: H.G. Wells
- Lesson 257: Ford Maddox Ford
Minor Novelists
Newly AddedDRAMATISTS
POETS
Major Poets
- Lesson 273: T.S. Eliot
- Lesson 274: W.B. Yeats
- Lesson 275: W.H. Auden
- Lesson 276: Dylan Thomas
- Lesson 277: Stephen Spender
- Lesson 278: Cecil Day-Lewis Newly Added
- Lesson 279: Louis MacNeice Newly Added
- Lesson 280: Robert Graves
- Lesson 281: Wilfred Owen
- Lesson 282: Siegfried Sassoon
- Lesson 283: Robert Bridges Newly Added
- Lesson 284: John Masefield
- Lesson 285: A.E. Housman
Minor Poets
Newly AddedSHORT STORY WRITERS
Newly Added
Chapter 12- Post Modern & Contemporary Age (1950 onwards)
80 lessons
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
- Lesson 303: William Golding
- Lesson 304: Somerset Maugham
- Lesson 305: Doris Lessing
- Lesson 306: Kingsley Amis
- Lesson 307: Ian McEwan
- Lesson 308: Peter Ackroyd
- Lesson 309: Malcolm Bradbury
- Lesson 310: John Fowles
- Lesson 311: David Lodge Newly Added
- Lesson 312: A.S. Byatt
- Lesson 313: Jeanette Winterson
- Lesson 314: Agatha Christie
- Lesson 315: Christopher Isherwood
- Lesson 316: Graham Swift
- Lesson 317: Martin Amis
- Lesson 318: John Wain Newly Added
- Lesson 319: Anthony Burgess
- Lesson 320: Iris Murdoch
- Lesson 321: Allan Sillitoe
- Lesson 322: Angela Carter
- Lesson 323: Eoin Colfer Newly Added
- Lesson 324: Roddy Doyle
- Lesson 325: Beryl Bainbridge Newly Added
- Lesson 326: J.G. Farrell Newly Added
- Lesson 327: J.K. Rowling
- Lesson 328: J.R.R. Tolkien
Minor Novelists
- Lesson 329: Muriel Spark
- Lesson 330: Sebastian Faulks Newly Added
- Lesson 331: J.G. Ballard
- Lesson 332: Alan Hollinghurst Newly Added
- Lesson 333: John Banville
- Lesson 334: Howard Jacobson
- Lesson 335: Lawrence Durrell
- Lesson 336: John Berger
- Lesson 337: Joyce Cary
- Lesson 338: Angus Wilson
- Lesson 339: Anthony Powell
- Lesson 340: John Braine Newly Added
- Lesson 341: Dodie Smith Newly Added
- Lesson 342: Irvine Welsh
- Lesson 343: Marina Warner Newly Added
- Lesson 344: David Storey
- Lesson 345: John Masters Newly Added
- Lesson 346: William Cooper Newly Added
DRAMATISTS
Major Dramatists
- Lesson 347: Harold Pinter
- Lesson 348: Samuel Beckett
- Lesson 349: John Osborne
- Lesson 350: Tom Stoppard
- Lesson 351: Arnold Wesker
- Lesson 352: Caryl Churchill
- Lesson 353: Joe Orton
- Lesson 354: Edward Bond
- Lesson 355: Brian Friel Newly Added
- Lesson 356: Shelagh Delaney
- Lesson 357: John Arden Newly Added
- Lesson 358: David Hare Newly Added
Minor Dramatists
POETS
Major Poets
- Lesson 364: Philip Larkin
- Lesson 365: Seamus Heaney
- Lesson 366: Ted Hughes
- Lesson 367: Thom Gunn
- Lesson 368: Roy Fuller
- Lesson 369: Geoffrey Hill
- Lesson 370: J.H. Prynne
- Lesson 371: Elizabeth Jennings Newly Added
- Lesson 372: Donald Davie Newly Added
- Lesson 373: Paul Muldoon
Minor Poets
Newly AddedModule 02 · American Literature
5 chapters · 97 lessons
Chapter 13- Early American Literature
1 lesson
Chapter 14- American Writers of Romantic Age
16 lessons
PROSE WRITERS
- Lesson 383: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Lesson 384: Henry David Thoreau
- Lesson 385: Herman Melville
- Lesson 386: Edgar Allan Poe
- Lesson 387: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Lesson 388: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Lesson 389: James Fenimore Cooper
- Lesson 390: Louisa May Alcott
- Lesson 391: Washington Irving
- Lesson 392: Sarah Josepha Hale Newly Added
Chapter 15- American Writers of Victorian Age
9 lessons
Chapter 16- American Writers of Modern Age
23 lessons
POETS
PROSE WRITERS
- Lesson 415: Ernest Hemingway
- Lesson 416: William Faulkner
- Lesson 417: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Lesson 418: Henry Miller Newly Added
- Lesson 419: Gertrude Stein
- Lesson 420: Sinclair Lewis
- Lesson 421: Pearl S. Buck Newly Added
- Lesson 422: Mary McCarthy
- Lesson 423: Samuel Ornitz Newly Added
- Lesson 424: William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
- Lesson 425: Hugo Gernsback Newly Added
Chapter 17- American Writers of Post Modern & Contemporary Age
48 lessons
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
- Lesson 431: John Steinbeck
- Lesson 432: J.D. Salinger
- Lesson 433: Philip Roth Newly Added
- Lesson 434: Paul Auster Newly Added
- Lesson 435: John Updike
- Lesson 436: E.L. Doctorow Newly Added
- Lesson 437: Ray Bradbury
- Lesson 438: Jack Kerouac
- Lesson 439: Joseph Heller
- Lesson 440: Harper Lee
- Lesson 441: Leslie Marmon Silko Newly Added
- Lesson 442: William S. Burroughs
- Lesson 443: Saul Bellow
- Lesson 444: Truman Capote
Minor Novelists
Newly AddedPOETS
Major Poets
- Lesson 458: Sylvia Plath
- Lesson 459: Allen Ginsberg
- Lesson 460: Robert Lowell
- Lesson 461: Adrienne Rich Newly Added
- Lesson 462: Elizabeth Bishop
- Lesson 463: Anne Sexton
- Lesson 464: Marge Piercy Newly Added
- Lesson 465: A.R. Ammons
- Lesson 466: Roy Fuller
- Lesson 467: Donald Davie Newly Added
- Lesson 468: Thom Gunn
- Lesson 469: Elizabeth Jennings Newly Added
- Lesson 470: Geoffrey Hill
Minor Poets
Newly AddedModule 03 · Postcolonial Literature
8 chapters · 129 lessons
Chapter 18- African Writers
15 lessons
- Lesson 479: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Lesson 480: Chinua Achebe
- Lesson 481: Nadine Gordimer
- Lesson 482: J.M. Coetzee
- Lesson 483: Wole Soyinka
- Lesson 484: Ama Ata Aidoo
- Lesson 485: Buchi Emecheta
- Lesson 486: Bessie Head
- Lesson 487: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Lesson 488: Ben Okri
- Lesson 489: Nuruddin Farah
- Lesson 490: Tayeb Salih Newly Added
- Lesson 491: Olaudah Equiano Newly Added
- Lesson 492: Alan Paton Newly Added
- Lesson 493: Zakes Mda Newly Added
Chapter 19- African-American Writers
23 lessons
POETS
NOVELISTS
PROSE WRITERS
Chapter 20- Latin American Writers
Newly Added 6 lessons
Chapter 21- Writers of British Diaspora
15 lessons
- Lesson 523: Jean Rhys
- Lesson 524: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lesson 525: Hanif Kureishi
- Lesson 526: Timothy Mo
- Lesson 527: Caryl Phillips
- Lesson 528: Salman Rushdie
- Lesson 529: V.S. Naipaul
- Lesson 530: Sam Selvon
- Lesson 531: Kamila Shamsie Newly Added
- Lesson 532: Monica Ali Newly Added
- Lesson 533: Mohammed Hanif Newly Added
- Lesson 534: Imtiaz Dharker Newly Added
- Lesson 535: Ekow Eshun Newly Added
- Lesson 536: Mike Phillips Newly Added
- Lesson 537: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Newly Added
Chapter 22- Canadian Writers
22 lessons
Major Writers
- Lesson 538: Margaret Atwood
- Lesson 539: Michael Ondaatje
- Lesson 540: Thomas King
- Lesson 541: Rohinton Mistry
- Lesson 542: Alice Munro
- Lesson 543: Margaret Laurence
- Lesson 544: Shyam Selvadurai
- Lesson 545: Yann Martel
- Lesson 546: Gabrielle Roy
- Lesson 547: Joy Kogawa Newly Added
- Lesson 548: M.G. Vassanji Newly Added
Minor Writers
Newly Added
Chapter 23- Carribean Writers
Newly Added 10 lessons
Chapter 24- Australian Writers
21 lessons
POETS
Newly AddedPROSE WRITERS
Newly Added- Lesson 577: Patrick White
- Lesson 578: Peter Carey
- Lesson 579: David Malouf
- Lesson 580: Alexis Wright
- Lesson 581: Kim Scott
- Lesson 582: Katherine Susannah Prichard
- Lesson 583: Sally Morgan
- Lesson 584: Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara)
- Lesson 585: Anita Heiss
- Lesson 586: Yasmine Gooneratne
- Lesson 587: Madeleine Ryan
- Lesson 588: Colin Johnson (Mudrooroo Narogin)
- Lesson 589: Monica Clare
- Lesson 590: H.M. Green
Chapter 25- Other Postcolonial Writers
Newly Added 17 lessons
- Lesson 591: Joe Sacco
- Lesson 592: Khaled Hosseini
- Lesson 593: Orhan Pamuk
- Lesson 594: Won-pyung Sohn
- Lesson 595: Saadat Hasan Manto
- Lesson 596: Muhammad Iqbal
- Lesson 597: Sara Suleri
- Lesson 598: K.S. Maniam
- Lesson 599: Taslima Nasreen
- Lesson 600: Herta Muller
- Lesson 601: William Pearson (Bill Pearson)
- Lesson 602: Eleanor Catton
- Lesson 603: Dev Virahsawmy
- Lesson 604: Haruki Murakami
- Lesson 605: Brij V. Lal
- Lesson 606: Subramani
- Lesson 607: Thomas Pringle
Module 04 · European Literature
7 chapters · 83 lessons
Chapter 26- Classical Greek Literature
9 lessons
Chapter 27- Classical Roman Literature
5 lessons
Chapter 28- Italian Literature
10 lessons
Chapter 29- Russian Literature
11 lessons
- Lesson 632: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Lesson 633: Leo Tolstoy
- Lesson 634: Alexander Pushkin
- Lesson 635: Anton Chekhov
- Lesson 636: Vladimir Nabokov
- Lesson 637: Ivan Turgenev
- Lesson 638: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Lesson 639: Maxim Gorky
- Lesson 640: Boris Pasternak
- Lesson 641: Konstantin Stanislavski Newly Added
- Lesson 642: Ivan Bunin
Chapter 30- German Literature
10 lessons
- Lesson 643: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Lesson 644: Bertolt Brecht
- Lesson 645: Thomas Mann
- Lesson 646: Franz Kafka
- Lesson 647: Hermann Hesse
- Lesson 648: Gunter Grass
- Lesson 649: Johann Gottfried Herder Newly Added
- Lesson 650: Heinrich Boll Newly Added
- Lesson 651: Erwin Piscator Newly Added
- Lesson 652: Heinrich Heine Newly Added
Chapter 31- French Literature
29 lessons
POETS
Newly AddedPROSE WRITERS
- Lesson 662: Albert Camus
- Lesson 663: Gustave Flaubert
- Lesson 664: Honore de Balzac
- Lesson 665: Emile Zola
- Lesson 666: Marcel Proust
- Lesson 667: Milan Kundera
- Lesson 668: Alexandre Dumas
- Lesson 669: Voltaire
- Lesson 670: Guy de Maupassant
- Lesson 671: Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Newly Added
- Lesson 672: Michel de Montaigne Newly Added
- Lesson 673: Hippolyte Taine Newly Added
Chapter 32- Other European Literature
Newly Added 9 lessons
Module 05 · Indian Literature
9 chapters · 192 lessons
Chapter 33- Indian English Novelist
72 lessons
Major Novelists
- Lesson 691: R.K. Narayan
- Lesson 692: Mulk Raj Anand
- Lesson 693: Raja Rao
- Lesson 694: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Lesson 695: Kamala Markandaya
- Lesson 696: Manohar Malgonkar
- Lesson 697: Anita Desai
- Lesson 698: Amitav Ghosh
- Lesson 699: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Lesson 700: Khushwant Singh
- Lesson 701: Bharati Mukherjee
- Lesson 702: Arundhati Roy
- Lesson 703: Arun Joshi
- Lesson 704: Nayantara Sahgal
- Lesson 705: Mahashweta Devi
- Lesson 706: Jhumpa Lahiri
- Lesson 707: Ruskin Bond
- Lesson 708: Shashi Deshpande
- Lesson 709: G.V. Desani
- Lesson 710: U.R. Ananthamurthy
- Lesson 711: Kiran Desai
- Lesson 712: Bhabani Bhattacharya Newly Added
- Lesson 713: Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Lesson 714: Raj Lakshmi Debi Newly Added
- Lesson 715: Cyrus Mistry Newly Added
- Lesson 716: Aravind Adiga
- Lesson 717: Dom Moraes Newly Added
Minor Novelists
Newly Added- Lesson 718: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Lesson 719: Krupabai Satthianadhan
- Lesson 720: Allan Sealy
- Lesson 721: George Mathen (Appupen)
- Lesson 722: Chaman Nahal
- Lesson 723: Githa Hariharan
- Lesson 724: Advaita Kala
- Lesson 725: Anuja Chauhan
- Lesson 726: Siddharth Shanghvi
- Lesson 727: Amrit Shetty
- Lesson 728: Devdutt Pattanaik
- Lesson 729: Amish Tripathi
- Lesson 730: Sasthi Brata
- Lesson 731: Juliette Banerjee
- Lesson 732: S. Menon Marath
- Lesson 733: Sudhindra Nath Ghose
- Lesson 734: Romen Basu
- Lesson 735: K.S. Venkataramani
- Lesson 736: Neelum Saran Gour
- Lesson 737: Deepa Anappara
- Lesson 738: Amandeep Sandhu
- Lesson 739: Shahnaz Bashir
- Lesson 740: Siddhartha Gigoo
- Lesson 741: Mirza Waheed
- Lesson 742: Balachandra Rajan
- Lesson 743: M. Anantanarayanan
- Lesson 744: Rukun Advani
- Lesson 745: Priya Sarukkai Chabria
- Lesson 746: R. Raj Rao
- Lesson 747: Ahmad Abbas
- Lesson 748: Vandana Singh
- Lesson 749: Gautam Bhatia
- Lesson 750: Dina Mehta
- Lesson 751: Anand Lall
- Lesson 752: Kavita Kane
- Lesson 753: Vilas Sarang
- Lesson 754: Anand Neelakantan
- Lesson 755: A.S. Iyengar
- Lesson 756: B.G. Sidharth
- Lesson 757: Orijit Sen
- Lesson 758: Srividya Natarajan & S. Anand
- Lesson 759: Malik Sajad
- Lesson 760: Vishwajyoti Ghosh
- Lesson 761: Romesh Chunder Dutt
- Lesson 762: Chetan Bhagat
Chapter 34- Indian English Poets
25 lessons
Major Poets
- Lesson 763: Sri Aurobindo
- Lesson 764: Rabindranath Tagore
- Lesson 765: Toru Dutt
- Lesson 766: A.K. Ramanujan
- Lesson 767: Sarojini Naidu
- Lesson 768: Kamala Das
- Lesson 769: Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- Lesson 770: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Newly Added
- Lesson 771: Nissim Ezekiel
- Lesson 772: Arun Kolatkar
- Lesson 773: Vikram Seth
- Lesson 774: Agha Shahid Ali
- Lesson 775: R. Parthasarathy
- Lesson 776: Jayant Mahapatra
- Lesson 777: Eunice de Souza Newly Added
- Lesson 778: Purushottama Lal (P. Lal) Newly Added
- Lesson 779: Gieve Patel
- Lesson 780: Keki Daruwalla
- Lesson 781: Dilip Chitre Newly Added
Minor Poets
Newly Added
Chapter 35- Indian Dramatists
15 lessons
Chapter 36- Indian Prose Writers
Newly Added 12 lessons
- Lesson 803: Mahatma Gandhi
- Lesson 804: J. Krishnamurti
- Lesson 805: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Lesson 806: Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Lesson 807: Ved Mehta
- Lesson 808: Shashi Tharoor
- Lesson 809: Cornelia Sorabji
- Lesson 810: M.C. Chagla
- Lesson 811: Kamala Sathianadhan
- Lesson 812: Panchkouree Khan (George Wyatt)
- Lesson 813: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Lesson 814: V. V. John
Chapter 37- Dalit Writers
Newly Added 21 lessons
- Lesson 815: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
- Lesson 816: Namdeo Dhasal
- Lesson 817: Urmila Pawar
- Lesson 818: Om Prakash Valmiki
- Lesson 819: Sharan Kumar Limbale
- Lesson 820: Bama
- Lesson 821: Baby Kamble (Babytai Kamble)
- Lesson 822: Basudev Sunani
- Lesson 823: Meena Kandasamy
- Lesson 824: J.V. Pawar
- Lesson 825: Lal Singh Dil
- Lesson 826: Tulsi Ram
- Lesson 827: P. Sivakami
- Lesson 828: Kumud Pawde
- Lesson 829: Raja Dhale
- Lesson 830: Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble
- Lesson 831: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
- Lesson 832: A. Revathi
- Lesson 833: Gogu Shyamala
- Lesson 834: Shevantibai M. Nikambe
- Lesson 835: Devanur Mahadeva
Chapter 38- Indian-American Writers
Newly Added 8 lessons
Chapter 39- Indian Translators
Newly Added 11 lessons
- Lesson 844: A.K. Ramanujan
- Lesson 845: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Lesson 846: Manmatha Nath Dutt
- Lesson 847: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Lesson 848: Purushottama Lal (P. Lal)
- Lesson 849: Kishori Mohan Ganguli
- Lesson 850: Anita Nair
- Lesson 851: Mohini Chatterjee
- Lesson 852: Girish Chandra Ghosh
- Lesson 853: Alok Rai
- Lesson 854: Jai Ratan
Chapter 40- Translators of Indian Texts
Newly Added 9 lessons
Chapter 41- Indian Regional Literature
Newly Added 19 lessons
Hindi
Bengali
Kannada
Punjabi
Module 06 · English In India
6 chapters · 46 lessons
Chapter 42- History, Evolution & Future
16 lessons
- Lesson 883: Inception of English Education in India by East India Company
- Lesson 884: Charter Act of 1813
- Lesson 885: Role of Missionaries in English Education
- Lesson 886: Demand for English Language by Indians during Colonial Period
- Lesson 887: Role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Spreading English
- Lesson 888: Role of William Bentinck & Lord Macaulay
- Lesson 889: Macaulay's Minute
- Lesson 890: Wood's Dispatch of 1854
- Lesson 891: Hunter Education Commission of 1882
- Lesson 892: Indian University Commission 1902
- Lesson 893: Gokhale's Bill of 1912
- Lesson 894: English Language during Independence Movement
- Lesson 895: Role of Mahatma Gandhi in Indian English Literature
- Lesson 896: Development of English during Post Independence Period
- Lesson 897: Present State of English Language in India
- Lesson 898: Summary of Unit 6 (English in India)
Chapter 43- Major Figures
Newly Added 3 lessons
Chapter 44- Indian English Linguistics
Newly Added 3 lessons
Chapter 45- Indian Literary Criticism: Core Indian Literary Critics
Newly Added 7 lessons
Chapter 46- Indian Aesthetics
11 lessons
- Lesson 912: Introduction to Indian Aesthetics
- Lesson 913: Bhartrhari (Philosophy of Sabda) Newly Added
- Lesson 914: Bharat Muni (Rasa School)
- Lesson 915: Bhamaha (Alankara School)
- Lesson 916: Dandin (Guna Dosa School)
- Lesson 917: Vamana (Riti School)
- Lesson 918: Dhananjaya (Rasa School) Newly Added
- Lesson 919: Anandvardhana (Dhwani School)
- Lesson 920: Kuntaka (Vakroti School)
- Lesson 921: Abhinavagupta (Rasa School) Newly Added
- Lesson 922: Ksemendra (Aucitya School)
Chapter 47- Classical Indian Writers
Newly Added 6 lessons
Module 07 · Literary Criticism
7 chapters · 89 lessons
Chapter 48- Greek Critics
3 lessons
Chapter 49- Roman Critics
4 lessons
Chapter 50- Middle Age Critics
5 lessons
Chapter 51- Enlightenment Age Critics
23 lessons
THINKERS
- Lesson 945: Thomas Hobbes
- Lesson 946: John Locke
- Lesson 947: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Newly Added
- Lesson 948: Edmund Burke
- Lesson 949: Edward Gibbon
- Lesson 950: Rene Descartes Newly Added
- Lesson 951: David Hume Newly Added
- Lesson 952: Giambattista Vico
- Lesson 953: Adam Smith
- Lesson 954: Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Lesson 955: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Lesson 956: Immanuel Kant Newly Added
- Lesson 957: Thomas Paine
- Lesson 958: Jeremy Bentham Newly Added
- Lesson 959: Alexander Baumgarten
- Lesson 960: William Walwyn Newly Added
- Lesson 961: Ernst Cassirer
- Lesson 962: Thomas Sprat
- Lesson 963: Francis Hutcheson Newly Added
Chapter 52- Romantic Age Critics
4 lessons
Chapter 53- Victorian Age Critics
14 lessons
Chapter 54- Modern Age Critics
Newly Added 36 lessons
- Lesson 982: T.S. Eliot
- Lesson 983: Virginia Woolf
- Lesson 984: George Orwell
- Lesson 985: Frank Kermode
- Lesson 986: Martin Esslin
- Lesson 987: M.H. Abrams
- Lesson 988: A.C. Bradley
- Lesson 989: Lionel Trilling
- Lesson 990: L.C. Knights
- Lesson 991: Kenneth Burke
- Lesson 992: Robert Brustein
- Lesson 993: Eric Bentley
- Lesson 994: Robert Langbaum
- Lesson 995: Ian Watt
- Lesson 996: Erich Auerbach
- Lesson 997: E.M.W. Tillyard
- Lesson 998: Hugh Kenner
- Lesson 999: J. Middleton Murry
- Lesson 1000: Peter Brook
- Lesson 1001: J.L. Styan
- Lesson 1002: C.W.E. Bigsby
- Lesson 1003: Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Lesson 1004: Rudolf Pannwitz
- Lesson 1005: Edward Mendelson
- Lesson 1006: Marjorie Boulton
- Lesson 1007: D. Thompson
- Lesson 1008: Thomas N. Corns
- Lesson 1009: W.W. Greg
- Lesson 1010: G. N. Shuster
- Lesson 1011: John Heath-Stubbs
- Lesson 1012: G. M. Foley
- Lesson 1013: Carol Maddison
- Lesson 1014: John Gross
- Lesson 1015: George Saintsbury
- Lesson 1016: Richard A. Lanham
- Lesson 1017: Rudolph Bultmann
Module 08 · Literary Theory
15 chapters · 204 lessons
Chapter 55- New Criticism
16 lessons
Cambridge School of Critics
Neo-Aristotlean (Chicago School of Critics)
Newly Added
Chapter 56- Formalism
4 lessons
Chapter 57- Structuralism
13 lessons
- Lesson 1038: What is Structuralism ?
- Lesson 1039: Ferdinand De Saussure
- Lesson 1040: Roland Barthes
- Lesson 1041: Mikhail Bakhtin
- Lesson 1042: Claude Levi-Strauss
- Lesson 1043: Vladimir Propp
- Lesson 1044: Charles Sanders Pierce
- Lesson 1045: Tzvetan Todorov Newly Added
- Lesson 1046: Jonathan Culler Newly Added
- Lesson 1047: Gerard Genette
- Lesson 1048: Michael Riffaterre Newly Added
- Lesson 1049: Valentin Voloshinov Newly Added
- Lesson 1050: A.J. Greimas
Chapter 58- Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism
11 lessons
- Lesson 1051: What is Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism?
- Lesson 1052: Michel Foucault
- Lesson 1053: Jacques Derrida
- Lesson 1054: Paul de Man
- Lesson 1055: J. Hillis Miller
- Lesson 1056: Geoffrey Hartman
- Lesson 1057: Barbara Johnson Newly Added
- Lesson 1058: Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari Newly Added
- Lesson 1059: Catherine Belsey Newly Added
- Lesson 1060: Rudolf Bultmann Newly Added
- Lesson 1061: Giorgio Agamben Newly Added
Chapter 59- Post Modernism
10 lessons
- Lesson 1062: What is Post Modernism?
- Lesson 1063: Jean Baudrillard
- Lesson 1064: Julia Kristeva
- Lesson 1065: Fredric Jameson
- Lesson 1066: Jean-Francois Lyotard
- Lesson 1067: Susan Sontag
- Lesson 1068: Peter Middleton Newly Added
- Lesson 1069: Patricia Waugh Newly Added
- Lesson 1070: David Kennedy Newly Added
- Lesson 1071: Edward Larrissy Newly Added
Chapter 60- Psychoanalysis Criticism
4 lessons
Chapter 61- Archetypal Criticism
6 lessons
Chapter 62- Reader-Response Theory
13 lessons
- Lesson 1082: What is Reader-Response Theory?
- Lesson 1083: Wolfgang Iser
- Lesson 1084: Stanley Fish
- Lesson 1085: Hans Robert Jauss
- Lesson 1086: E.D. Hirsch Jr. Newly Added
- Lesson 1087: Georges Poulet Newly Added
- Lesson 1088: Suzanne Keen Newly Added
- Lesson 1089: Louise Rosenblatt Newly Added
- Lesson 1090: Walter J. Slatoff Newly Added
Chapter 63- Marxism
15 lessons
- Lesson 1095: What is Marxist Criticism?
- Lesson 1096: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
- Lesson 1097: Louis Althusser
- Lesson 1098: Antonio Gramsci
- Lesson 1099: Pierre Bourdieu
- Lesson 1100: Terry Eagleton Newly Added
- Lesson 1101: Ernest Mandel
- Lesson 1102: E. P. Thompson Newly Added
- Lesson 1103: Ernest Gellner Newly Added
- Lesson 1104: Richard Ohmann
- Lesson 1105: Ernesto Laclau
- Lesson 1106: Francis Mulhern Newly Added
- Lesson 1107: K.M. Newton Newly Added
- Lesson 1108: Georg Lukacs Newly Added
- Lesson 1109: Lucien Goldmann
Chapter 64- Postcolonial Criticism
39 lessons
- Lesson 1110: What is Postcolonial Criticism?
- Lesson 1111: Edward Said
- Lesson 1112: Frantz Fanon
- Lesson 1113: Homi K. Bhabha
- Lesson 1114: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Newly Added
- Lesson 1115: Aime Cesaire
- Lesson 1116: Leopold Sedar Senghor
- Lesson 1117: Salman Rushdie
- Lesson 1118: Edward Soja
- Lesson 1119: Benedict Anderson
- Lesson 1120: Gauri Vishwanathan Newly Added
- Lesson 1121: Aijaz Ahmad Newly Added
- Lesson 1122: C.L.R. James Newly Added
- Lesson 1123: Robert J.C. Young Newly Added
- Lesson 1124: Ashis Nandy Newly Added
- Lesson 1125: Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt
- Lesson 1126: Bill Ashcroft
- Lesson 1127: Gareth Griffiths
- Lesson 1128: Helen Tiffin
- Lesson 1129: Mary Louise Pratt
- Lesson 1130: Rita Kothari Newly Added
- Lesson 1131: Abdul R. JanMohamed
- Lesson 1132: Paul Carter Newly Added
- Lesson 1133: Avtar Brah Newly Added
- Lesson 1134: Baljinder K. Mahal Newly Added
- Lesson 1135: Alok Mukherjee Newly Added
- Lesson 1136: Neil Lazarus Newly Added
- Lesson 1137: Satya P. Mohanty
- Lesson 1138: Rosemary Sayigh
- Lesson 1139: Simon Gikandi
Chapter 65- New Historicism
7 lessons
Chapter 66- Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Newly Added 10 lessons
Chapter 67- Feminism
42 lessons
- Lesson 1166: What is Feminism?
- Lesson 1167: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Lesson 1168: Simone de Beauvoir
- Lesson 1169: Virginia Woolf
- Lesson 1170: Kate Millett
- Lesson 1171: Judith Butler
- Lesson 1172: Elaine Showalter
- Lesson 1173: Helene Cixous
- Lesson 1174: Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar
- Lesson 1175: Adrienne Rich Newly Added
- Lesson 1176: Alice Walker Newly Added
- Lesson 1177: Mary Ellman Newly Added
- Lesson 1178: Luce Irigaray Newly Added
- Lesson 1179: Margaret Fuller
- Lesson 1180: Shulamith Firestone
- Lesson 1181: Patricia Meyer Spacks
- Lesson 1182: Donna Haraway
- Lesson 1183: Ellen Moers
- Lesson 1184: Germaine Greer
- Lesson 1185: Betty Friedan Newly Added
- Lesson 1186: Gloria E. Anzaldua & Cherrie Moraga Newly Added
- Lesson 1187: Francoise d'Eaubonne Newly Added
- Lesson 1188: Barbara Christian
- Lesson 1189: Monique Wittig
- Lesson 1190: Evelyn Fox Keller
- Lesson 1191: Nancy Chodorow
- Lesson 1192: Carol Gilligan Newly Added
- Lesson 1193: Annette Kolodny Newly Added
- Lesson 1194: Mary Hiatt
- Lesson 1195: Dale Spender
- Lesson 1196: Nira Yuval-Davis Newly Added
- Lesson 1197: Wendy Martin
- Lesson 1198: Janet Todd Newly Added
- Lesson 1199: Michele Barrett Newly Added
- Lesson 1200: Margaret Anne Doody Newly Added
- Lesson 1201: Annette Kolodny
- Lesson 1202: Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Indian Postcolonial Feminists
Newly Added
Chapter 68- Queer Theory
9 lessons
- Lesson 1208: What is Queer Theory?
- Lesson 1209: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Lesson 1210: Alan Sinfield
- Lesson 1211: Gregory Woods Newly Added
- Lesson 1212: Diarmuid Hester Newly Added
- Lesson 1213: Joseph Beam & Essex Hemphill Newly Added
- Lesson 1214: K.J. Dover Newly Added
- Lesson 1215: Karla Jay Newly Added
- Lesson 1216: Cherry Smith Newly Added
Module 09 · Cultural Studies
3 chapters · 53 lessons
Chapter 70- Major Terms
10 lessons
- Lesson 1222: Defining Culture & Cultural Studies
- Lesson 1223: Elements of Culture
- Lesson 1224: Types of Culture
- Lesson 1225: Ideal vs Real Culture
- Lesson 1226: Cultural Globalization
- Lesson 1227: Mall Culture
- Lesson 1228: Media Culture
- Lesson 1229: Consumer Culture
- Lesson 1230: Cultural Studies (Major Theorists)
- Lesson 1231: Birth of Cultural Studies
Chapter 71- Major Theorists
37 lessons
- Lesson 1232: Stuart Hall
- Lesson 1233: Raymond Williams
- Lesson 1234: Richard Hoggart
- Lesson 1235: Marshall McLuhan
- Lesson 1236: Hannah Arendt Newly Added
- Lesson 1237: John Storey Newly Added
- Lesson 1238: Max Weber Newly Added
- Lesson 1239: Laura Mulvey
- Lesson 1240: Graeme Turner
- Lesson 1241: Émile Durkheim
- Lesson 1242: Angela McRobbie
- Lesson 1243: Clifford Geertz
- Lesson 1244: Michel de Certeau Newly Added
- Lesson 1245: Arjun Appadurai Newly Added
- Lesson 1246: Bruno Latour Newly Added
- Lesson 1247: Michel Callon Newly Added
- Lesson 1248: John Law
- Lesson 1249: Sara Ahmed
- Lesson 1250: Andrew Milner
- Lesson 1251: Camille Paglia
- Lesson 1252: Ziauddin Sardar
- Lesson 1253: Nigel Thrift Newly Added
- Lesson 1254: John Fiske
- Lesson 1255: Ariel Dorfman & Armand Mattelart Newly Added
- Lesson 1256: John Tomlinson
- Lesson 1257: Frederick Jackson Turner
- Lesson 1258: Jerome McGann
- Lesson 1259: Janice Radway
- Lesson 1260: Catherine A. Lutz & Jane L. Collins Newly Added
- Lesson 1261: John Urry Newly Added
- Lesson 1262: Marcel Mauss
- Lesson 1263: Dick Hebdige
- Lesson 1264: Richard Dawkins Newly Added
- Lesson 1265: Paul Thompson Newly Added
- Lesson 1266: Robert Putnam Newly Added
- Lesson 1267: Graham Dawson Newly Added
- Lesson 1268: Al Thomson Newly Added
Chapter 72- Important Cultural Studies Group: Frankfurt School
Newly Added 6 lessons
Module 10 · Literary Movements
6 chapters · 71 lessons
Chapter 73- Renaissance
7 lessons
Chapter 74- Enlightenment Age
6 lessons
Chapter 75- Romantic Age
5 lessons
Chapter 76- Victorian Age
8 lessons
Chapter 77- Modern Age
22 lessons
- Lesson 1301: Impressionism
- Lesson 1302: Symbolism
- Lesson 1303: Rhymers' Club
- Lesson 1304: Irish Dramatic Movement
- Lesson 1305: Futurism Newly Added
- Lesson 1306: Vorticism Newly Added
- Lesson 1307: Imagism
- Lesson 1308: Georgian Poets
- Lesson 1309: Stream of Consciousness
- Lesson 1310: High Modernists Newly Added
- Lesson 1311: Lost Generation
- Lesson 1312: Harlem Renaissance
- Lesson 1313: Bloomsbury Group
- Lesson 1314: Southern Agrarians
- Lesson 1315: Surrealism
- Lesson 1316: Super Realism Newly Added
- Lesson 1317: Auden Group
- Lesson 1318: War Poets
- Lesson 1319: New Apocalyptics
- Lesson 1320: Objectivism Newly Added
- Lesson 1321: Black Mountain Poets
- Lesson 1322: Nihilism Newly Added
Chapter 78- Post Modern Age
23 lessons
- Lesson 1323: Dadaism Newly Added
- Lesson 1324: Agitprop
- Lesson 1325: Existentialism
- Lesson 1326: Epic Theatre
- Lesson 1327: Theatre of Cruelty
- Lesson 1328: Theatre of the Absurd (Absurdism)
- Lesson 1329: Angry Young Men
- Lesson 1330: Kitchen Sink Drama
- Lesson 1331: Beat Generation
- Lesson 1332: Movement Poets
- Lesson 1333: Comedy of Menace Newly Added
- Lesson 1334: Confessional Poetry
- Lesson 1335: Campus Novelists Newly Added
- Lesson 1336: Black Arts Movement
- Lesson 1337: Theatre of the Oppressed
- Lesson 1338: Cyberpunk Newly Added
Movements associated with Literary Theory and Critcism
Newly AddedModule 11 · Linguistics
3 chapters · 48 lessons
Chapter 79- Linguistics
9 lessons
- Lesson 1346: Basics of ELT & Linguistics
- Lesson 1347: Phonology & Morphology
- Lesson 1348: Important Terms in Linguistics
- Lesson 1349: Basic English Project
- Lesson 1350: New Bolt Report
- Lesson 1351: Evolution of English Language: Old
- Lesson 1352: Popular Journals & Magazine
- Lesson 1353: Evolution of Dictionary: Popular Dictionaries
- Lesson 1354: Sapir Whorf Hypothesis
Chapter 80- English Language Pedagogy (Teaching Methodologies)
11 lessons
- Lesson 1355: Grammar Translation Method
- Lesson 1356: Direct Method
- Lesson 1357: Situational Approach
- Lesson 1358: Audio Lingual Method
- Lesson 1359: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
- Lesson 1360: Total Physical Response (TPR)
- Lesson 1361: Suggestopedia
- Lesson 1362: Silent Way Method
- Lesson 1363: Natural Approach
- Lesson 1364: Task Based Language Teaching
- Lesson 1365: Interaction Hypothesis
Chapter 81-Important Linguistics
28 lessons
Foundational Theorists in Linguistics
Newly AddedPhilosophy of Language / Pragmatics
Newly AddedLanguage Acquisition & ELT Theories
Newly AddedLanguage and Society / Psycholinguistics
Newly AddedApplied Linguistics / Lexicography
Newly AddedOthers
Newly AddedModule 12 · Research Methodology
2 chapters · 14 lessons
Chapter 82- Research Methodology
10 lessons
- Lesson 1394: Introduction to Research & Types of Literary Research
- Lesson 1395: Aim & Objective of Literary Research
- Lesson 1396: Prerequisite to Literary Research
- Lesson 1397: Materials & Tools of Literary Research
- Lesson 1398: Method of Research: Biographical Research
- Lesson 1399: Method of Research: Bibliographical Research
- Lesson 1400: Method of Research: Critical Approach & Analysis
- Lesson 1401: Difference Between Research Paper
- Lesson 1402: How to Choose Research Topic
- Lesson 1403: Format of Thesis Writing (Citation
Module 13 · Literary Terms & Devices
7 chapters · 182 lessons
Chapter 84- Literary Devices
42 lessons
Sound Devices
Newly AddedTropes (Figures of Meaning)
Newly Added- Lesson 1412: Allegory
- Lesson 1413: Political Allegory
- Lesson 1414: Metaphor
- Lesson 1415: Mixed Metaphor
- Lesson 1416: Simile
- Lesson 1417: Metonymy
- Lesson 1418: Synecdoche
- Lesson 1419: Irony (including Dramatic Irony)
- Lesson 1420: Paradox
- Lesson 1421: Oxymoron
- Lesson 1422: Litotes
- Lesson 1423: Hyperbole
- Lesson 1424: Meiosis
- Lesson 1425: Personification
- Lesson 1426: Pathetic Fallacy
- Lesson 1427: Symbol / Symbolism
- Lesson 1428: Imagery
- Lesson 1429: Synesthesia
Schemes (Figures of Construction)
Newly AddedFigures of Indirectness / Suggestion
Newly Added
Chapter 85- Literary Terms
53 lessons
Dramatic Terms
Newly AddedCritical & Theoretical Terms
Newly AddedNarrative & Structural Terms
Newly AddedRhetorical / Stylistic Terms
Newly AddedTextual / Scholarly Terms
Newly AddedGeneral Literary Concepts
Newly Added- Lesson 1477: Anticlimax
- Lesson 1478: Anti-hero
- Lesson 1479: Byronic Hero
- Lesson 1480: Bowdlerize
- Lesson 1481: Carpe Diem
- Lesson 1482: Celtic Myths
- Lesson 1483: Dream Vision
- Lesson 1484: Epiphany
- Lesson 1485: Epigraph
- Lesson 1486: Epithet
- Lesson 1487: Epitaph
- Lesson 1488: Motif
- Lesson 1489: Malapropism
- Lesson 1490: Palinode
- Lesson 1491: Poetic Licence
- Lesson 1492: Poetic Justice
- Lesson 1493: Ambivalence
- Lesson 1494: Black Humour
- Lesson 1495: Chiaroscuro
- Lesson 1496: Freytags Pyramid
- Lesson 1497: Intrigue
- Lesson 1498: Tempo
- Lesson 1499: Epigram
- Lesson 1500: Epigone
- Lesson 1501: Palindrome
- Lesson 1502: Eponymous Character
Chapter 86- Types of Fiction
23 lessons
Form / Structure-Based
Newly AddedTheme-Based
Newly Added- Lesson 1506: Apocalyptic Literature
- Lesson 1507: Dystopian Fiction
- Lesson 1508: Utopian Fiction
- Lesson 1509: Gothic Fiction / Gothic Novel
- Lesson 1510: Historical Fiction
- Lesson 1511: Mystery Fiction
- Lesson 1512: Science Fiction
- Lesson 1513: Magic Realism
- Lesson 1514: Realism / Realist Novel
- Lesson 1515: Chivalric Romance
Character / Journey-Based
Newly AddedSocial / Cultural Types
Newly AddedSpecial Types
Newly Added
Chapter 87- Types of Narrators
11 lessons
By Knowledge / Point of View
Newly AddedBy Reliability
Newly AddedBy Person (Voice)
Newly AddedSpecial Narrative Forms
Newly Added
Chapter 88- Types of Characters
Newly Added 9 lessons
By Role
Newly AddedBy Development
Newly AddedBy Complexity
Newly AddedBy Function
Newly Added
Chapter 89- Prosody
Newly Added 27 lessons
Basic Elements
Newly AddedLine Features
Newly AddedMetrical Feet
Newly AddedMetrical Patterns
Newly Added
Chapter 90- Types of Poetry
17 lessons
Major Types
Newly AddedFixed / Classical Forms
Newly AddedModule 14 · UGC NET Exam Special
Newly Added 2 chapters · 16 lessons
Chapter 91- Commonly Asked Question Types
Newly Added 8 lessons
- Lesson 1590: Reading Comprehension
- Lesson 1591: Chronology-Based Questions
- Lesson 1592: Statement-Type Questions
- Lesson 1593: Translation-Based Questions
- Lesson 1594: Assertion�Reason Questions
- Lesson 1595: Match-the-Column Questions
- Lesson 1596: Quotes & Opening/Closing Lines (Who Said to Whom)
- Lesson 1597: Coined Terms & Key Phrases
Chapter 92- High-Scoring Must-Know Literary Lists
Newly Added 8 lessons
- Lesson 1598: Famous Adaptations of Works
- Lesson 1599: Major Literary Awards & Honours
- Lesson 1600: Pseudonyms and Pen Names of Authors
- Lesson 1601: Renowned Literary Institutes
- Lesson 1602: Key Journals, Magazines
- Lesson 1603: The Bible and Its Translations
- Lesson 1604: Famous Dictionaries
- Lesson 1605: Noted Illustrators
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