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Default Notes Of English Literature

Anglo-saxon Period
Difference between Classicism, Neoclassicism and Romanticism?
Modern Literature (1900-1961)
Modern Drama
Modern Novel and Novelists


POETRY
Poetry Terminology
Critical Appreciation

GEOFFREY
CHAUCER

Chaucer: Art of Characterization
Chaucer: Ecclesiastical Characters
Chaucer: A Humorist
Chaucer: Realism
Chaucer: "Nun's Priest's Tale" - Philosophy of Dreams
Chaucer: "Nun's Priest's Tale" - A mock epic

JOHN MILTON
Milton: Treatment of woman in "Paradise Lost"
Milton: Pandemoniun in "Paradise Lost"
Milton: Hell in "Paradise Lost"
Milton: Character of "Satan"
Paradise Lost: A Classical Epic
Paradise Lost: Treatment of women

ALEXANDER POPE
ROTL: Significance of Cave of Spleen
ROTL: A Comic Epic
ROTL: Social Satire
ROTL: Supernatural Machinery


JOHN DONNE

John Donne a metaphysical poet
John Donne: a love poet

JOHN KEATS
Salient features of Keats' poetry
“Ode on Indolence” as a weaker ode (Keats)
Keats' Sensuousness
Keats – Arts Versus Life
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Keats' concept of beauty

ROBERT BROWNING
Robert Browning: Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning: Obscurity
Robert Browning: Optimism
Robert Browning: Soul Dissection

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Shelley as a revolutionary poet
Shelley's Lyricism
Shelley's Abstractness & Visionary Idealism
Shelley's Love For Nature
Shelley: A Poet Of Love
Shelley: A Revolutionary Poet

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Yeats as a modern poet
Yeats as a romantic poet
Yeats' style
Yeats' symbolism
Irish elements in Yeats' poetry
W.b.yeats : Sailing To Byzantium

DRAMA

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet-Ophelia relationship
The Rivals: Anti-Sentimental Comedy
The Rivals: Comedy of Manners

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Jew of Malta: A Typical Marlovian Tragedy
The Jew of Malta: The World of Malta

SOPHOCLES
Oedipus Rex: Catharsis
Oedipus Rex: Character is Destiny
Oedipus Rex: Hamartia
Oedipus Rex: Role of Chorus
Oedipus Rex: Tragic Irony

SEAN O CASEY
Juno and the Paycock: An Introduction
Juno and the Paycock:A Feministic Play
Juno and the Paycock: Jingoism
Juno and the Paycock: Tragoi-comedy
Juno and the Paycock: O'Casey's Pacifism
Juno and the Paycock: Important Textual Quotations

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Arms and the Man: An Introduction
Arms and the Man: Anti-Romantic or Realistic Play
Arms and the Man: Shaw's Plot Construction
Arms and the Man: Bluntschili as a Mouthpiece
Arms and the Man: Theme
Arms and the Man: Title
Arms and the Man: Wit and Humour
Arms and the Man: Important Textual Quotations

HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN
The Wild Duck: Anti-Romantic Play
The Wild Duck: Symbolism
The Wild Duck: Symbols of Lights and Colours
The Wild Duck: Theme of Illusion
The Wild Duck: Title
The Wild Duck: Tragi-comedy
The Wild Duck: Important Textual Quotations

SAMUEL BARCLAY BECKETT
Introduction To Theatre Of Absurd
Waiting For Godot: A tragi-comedy
Structure Of “Waiting For Godot”
Waiting For Godot “existentialism”
Waiting for Godot: Hope for Salvation
“Waiting for Godot”: Realism
Waiting For Godot – As An Absurd Play


NOVEL

JANE AUSTEN
Jane Austen's contribution to English novel
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's Moral Vision
Pride and Prejudice: Love and Marriage Theme
Pride and Prejudice: Title
Pride and Prejudice: Art of Characterization
Pride and Prejudice: Irony
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel With Limited Range

THOMAS HARDY

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Hardy as a Pessimist
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Fate and Chance
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Nature
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: The Peasent World
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Tess - A Pure Woman

GEORGE ELIOT (Mary Anne Evans)
George Eliot as a modern novelist
Mill on the Floss: Humour
George Eliot: A Psychologist
George Eliot: A Moralist
The Mill on the Floss: End of the Novel

HENRY FIELDING
Joseph Andrews: Morality
Joseph Andrews: Comic Epic Poem in Prose
JosephAndrews: Humour
Joseph Andrews: A Picareaque
Jospeh Andrews: Realism

JOSEPH CONRAD
Heart of Darkness: Imperialism
Heart of Darkness: Journey to Subconsciousness
Heart of Darkness: Theme of Isolation
Heart of Darkness: Marlow's Symbolic Character
Heart of Darkness: Self Restraint
Heart of Darkness: Symbolism
Heart of Darkness: Theme of Evil
Heart of Darkness: Important Textual Quotations
Heart of Darkness: Significance of Title

PAUL MARK SCOTT
The Jewel in the Crown: Art of Characterization
The Jewel in the Crown: As a Social History
The Jewel in the Crown: Comparison Between Paul Mark Scott and Joseph Conrad
The Jewel in the Crown: Hari Kumar
The Jewel in the Crown: Daphne Manners
The Jewel in the Crown: Objective Reporting
The Jewel in the Crown: Plot
The Jewel in the Crown: Racialism
The Jewel in the Crown: Paul Scott's Technical Integrity
The Jewel in the Crown: The British Attitude
The Jewel in the Crown: The Theme

SIR WILLIAM GERALD GOLDING
Lord of the Flies: An Introduction
Lord of the Flies: Golding's Art of Characterization
Lord of the Flies: Important Textual Quotations

DAME MARGARET DRABBLE
The Ice Age: An Introduction
The Ice Age: Margaret Drabble - A Feminist Writer
The Ice Age: Shifting Sensibility
The Ice Age: Important Textual Quotations


PROSE

FRANCIS BACON
Francis Bacon: Worldly Wisdom
Francis Bacon: Wisest, Brightest, Meanest
Francis Bacon

BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL
Bertrand Russell: Prose Style

JONATHAN SWIFT
Is swift a misanthrope?
Swift's "Gulliver's Travels": A social satire

ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY
Aldous Huxley: Prose Style


GILES LYTTON STRACHEY

Lytton Strachey as a biographer
Lytton Strachey's ironic attitude


LITERARY CRITICISM

ARISTOTLE
Aristotle's plot
Aristotle's concept of tragedy
Aristotle's theory of imitation
Aristotle's concept of ideal tragic hero: Hamartia
Aristotle's concept of catharsis

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
S.T.Coleridge as a critic
S. T. Coleridge: Criticism on Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction
S. T. Coleridge: Imagination and Fancy
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
S. T. Coleridge: Function of Poetry

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT
T.S.Eliot as a critic
The Metaphysical Poets
T. S. Eliot: Dissociation of sensibility
Objective Co-Relative

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
William Wordsworth as a critic
Wordsworth theory of poetic diction
Wordsworth's themes of poetry
Wordsworth's conception of poetry
Wordsworth's views on imagination and fancy
William Wordsworth: Poet of nature

AMERICAN LITERATURE

EMILY ELIZABETH DICKENSON
Emily Dickenson: "Immortality" as a flood subject

ROBERT LEE FROST
Robert Fost: Poetic Qualities
Frost's theme of isolation
Frost's treatment of nature
Frost sane realist not a pessimist
Robert Frost: A Modern Poet
Robert Frost: Major Themes

ARTHUR ASHER MILLER
Death of a Salesman: Social Drama
Death of a Salesman: Modern Tragedy
Death of a Salesman: Symbolism
Death of a Salesman: Time Motif
Death of a Salesman: American Dream

WILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER
The Sound and the Fury: The Theme - Decline of A Family
The Sound and the Fury: Shadow Motif
The Sound and the Fury: Time Motif
The Sound and the Fury: Symbolism

EARNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY
Themes of "The Old Man and The Sea"
Form of "The Old Man and The Sea"
Hemingway: Generation Lost
Hemingway's Hero and Code Hero
The Sun Also Rises: Significance of Bull Fighting
The Sun Also Rises: Hemingway's Style
Hemingway's Code Hero
Hemingway's Hero
The Sun Also Rises: The Lost Generation
Hemingway's Wasteland
The Sun Also Rises: The Fishing Trip
The Sun Also Rises: The Title
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