NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to World Literature (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Merin Simi Raj


Lecture 1 - Reading World Literature

Lecture 2 - Epic of Gilgamesh

Lecture 3 - Beowulf : The Anglo - Saxon narratie poem

Lecture 4 - The Lusiads by Luis De Camoes

Lecture 5 - Challenges and Possibilities for World Literature by Kathleen Shields

Lecture 6 - The Garden of Forking Paths by Borges - Part I

Lecture 7 - The Garden of Forking Paths by Borges - Part II

Lecture 8 - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner - Part I

Lecture 9 - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner - Part II

Lecture 10 - Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare and Love Sonnet XVI by Neruda

Lecture 11 - Song of Lawino by Okot p' Bitek

Lecture 12 - Tortures by Wislawa Szymborska

Lecture 13 - Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty The Politics of translation

Lecture 14 - Othello - 1

Lecture 15 - Othello - 2

Lecture 16 - Othello - 3

Lecture 17 - Doll's House

Lecture 18 - Yellow Wallpaper

Lecture 19 - Toba Tek Singh

Lecture 20 - Oroonoko - I

Lecture 21 - Oroonoko - II

Lecture 22 - Poetics Of Aristotle - I

Lecture 23 - Poetics Of Aristotle - II

Lecture 24 - Longinus on the Subline - I

Lecture 25 - Longinus on the Subline - II

Lecture 26 - Errata in MC

Lecture 27 - From Errata to MC

Lecture 28 - The Third and the final Continent - I

Lecture 29 - The Third and the final Continent - II

Lecture 30 - Balthazar's Marvellous Afternoon - I by Marquez

Lecture 31 - Balthazar's Marvellous Afternoon - II

Lecture 32 - The Wasteland - I

Lecture 33 - The Wasteland - II

Lecture 34 - The Wall by Sartre - I

Lecture 35 - The Wall by Sartre - II

Lecture 36 - The Applicant

Lecture 37 - Everyday Use

Lecture 38 - Catcher in the Rye - I

Lecture 39 - Catcher in the Rye - II

Lecture 40 - Stage'ing Protests

Lecture 41 - DR Faustus

Lecture 42 - In A Grove

Lecture 43 - Metamorphosis - I

Lecture 44 - Metamorphosis - II

Lecture 45 - Diary Of a Madman

Lecture 46 - Solid Objects

Lecture 47 - Dawn of the New Indian Novel in English

Lecture 48 - Bartleby The Scrivener

Lecture 49 - The Great Gatsby - I

Lecture 50 - The Great Gatsby - II