NPTEL : NOC:Literary Criticism (From Plato to Leavis) (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Merin Simi Raj


Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Aristotle's Poetics - Session 1

Lecture 3 - Aristotle's Poetics - Session 2

Lecture 4 - Aristotle's Poetics - Session 3

Lecture 5 - Longinus' Sublimity, Genius, Art

Lecture 6 - Longinus' On the Sublime - Session 2

Lecture 7 - Longinus' On the Sublime - Session 3

Lecture 8 - Scott James' The First Romantic Critic

Lecture 9 - Philip Sidney's - An Apology for Poetry - Session 1

Lecture 10 - Philip Sidney's - An Apology for Poetry - Session 2

Lecture 11 - Philip Sidney's - An Apology for Poetry - Session 3

Lecture 12 - Philip Sidney's - An Apology for Poetry - Session 4

Lecture 13 - The Foundations of Western Philosophy

Lecture 14 - Horace's Ars Poetica

Lecture 15 - John Dryden's 'Preface to The Fables'

Lecture 16 - Critical Importance of Aphra Behn

Lecture 17 - Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare - Session 1

Lecture 18 - Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare - Session 2

Lecture 19 - Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare - Session 3

Lecture 20 - Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare - Session 4

Lecture 21 - Wordsworth's 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads'

Lecture 22 - Coleridge's 'Biographia Literaria' (Chapter 13 and 14)

Lecture 23 - Shelley's A Defence of Poetry - Part 1

Lecture 24 - Shelley's A Defence of Poetry - Part 2

Lecture 25 - Shelley's A Defence of Poetry - Part 3

Lecture 26 - Shelley's A Defence of Poetry - Part 4

Lecture 27 - Introduction to Peter Barry's Literary Theory

Lecture 28 - Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Lecture 29 - Edgar Allan Poe's The Poetic Principle - Part 1

Lecture 30 - Edgar Allan Poe's The Poetic Principle - Part 2

Lecture 31 - Leo Tolstoy's What is Art?

Lecture 32 - Matthew Arnold's Study of Poetry

Lecture 33 - Matthew Arnold's Sweetness and Light

Lecture 34 - Russian Formalism

Lecture 35 - Henry James 'The Art of Fiction' (Session 1)

Lecture 36 - T.S. Eliot's 'Tradition and Individual Talent'

Lecture 37 - T.S. Eliot's 'Tradition and Individual Talent' (Session 2)

Lecture 38 - Virginia Woolf's 'Modern Fiction'

Lecture 39 - Virginia Woolf's 'Modern Fiction' (Session 2)

Lecture 40 - Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'

Lecture 41 - Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' (Session 1)

Lecture 42 - Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' (Session 2)

Lecture 43 - Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' (Session 3)

Lecture 44 - Rene Wellek's The New Criticism: Pro and Contra

Lecture 45 - Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - 1

Lecture 46 - Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - 2

Lecture 47 - Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - 3

Lecture 48 - Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - 4

Lecture 49 - Walter Benjamin's The Storyteller

Lecture 50 - FR Leavis

Lecture 51 - FR Leavis's 'The Great Tradition' (Session 1)

Lecture 52 - FR Leavis's 'The Great Tradition' (Session 2)

Lecture 53 - FR Leavis's 'The Great Tradition' (Session 3)