NPTEL : NOC:Literature and Life (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. S P Dhanavel


Lecture 1 - What is literature ?

Lecture 2 - What is Life ?

Lecture 3 - The Relationship between Literature and Life

Lecture 4 - Approaches to Literature and Life

Lecture 5 - Essay

Lecture 6 - Poetry

Lecture 7 - Drama

Lecture 8 - The Novel and the Short Story

Lecture 9 - Abdul Kalams When I Failed

Lecture 10 - Chetan Bhagats My Stupid Suicide Plan

Lecture 11 - R K Narayans Toasted English

Lecture 12 - Amishs Why I Write

Lecture 13 - George Orwells Politics and the English Language

Lecture 14 - William Zinssers Writing English as a Second Language

Lecture 15 - Joan Didions Why I Write

Lecture 16 - Virginia Woolfs The Death of the Moth

Lecture 17 - William Wordsworths Resolution and Independence

Lecture 18 - H W Longfellows A Psalm of Life

Lecture 19 - W H Davies Leisure

Lecture 20 - Robert Frosts Mending Wall

Lecture 21 - Emily Dickinsons A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

Lecture 22 - Kamala Dass Words

Lecture 23 - Louise Glücks The Mountain

Lecture 24 - Sujata Bhatts Search for My Tongue

Lecture 25 - Girish Karnads Tughlaq: An Introduction

Lecture 26 - Characters and Characterization in Karnads Tughlaq

Lecture 27 - Sources, Structure, Form, Themes, and Techniques in Tughlaq

Lecture 28 - Irony, Humor and Symbol in Tughlaq

Lecture 29 - Tughlaq: Further Analysis

Lecture 30 - Anton Chekhovs The Bear

Lecture 31 - The Bear: An Analysis

Lecture 32 - J M Synges Riders to the Sea

Lecture 33 - Riders to the Sea: An Analysis

Lecture 34 - Aravind Adigas The White Tiger: An Introduction

Lecture 35 - Characters and Characterization in Aravind Adigas The White Tiger

Lecture 36 - Themes and Techniques in Aravind Adigas The White Tiger

Lecture 37 - Literary Devices in The White Tiger

Lecture 38 - Aravind Adigas The White Tiger: Further Analysis

Lecture 39 - Guy de Maupassants The Dispenser of Holy Water

Lecture 40 - Katherine Mansfields A Cup of Tea

Lecture 41 - Heinrich Bolls Action Will Be Taken

Lecture 42 - Joao Guimaraes Rosas The Third Bank of the River

Lecture 43 - G G Joshi's The Letter

Lecture 44 - Ruskin Bond's The Boy Who Broke the Bank

Lecture 45 - Anjana Appachana's Sharmaji

Lecture 46 - Isaac Asimovs True Love

Lecture 47 - Discussion 1 - Prose

Lecture 48 - Discussion 2 - Poetry

Lecture 49 - Discussion 3 - Drama

Lecture 50 - Discussion 4 - Novel