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Part 1
1. RL
2. NCL
3. Lit Crit-1
4. IWE-1
5. RmL
6. VL
7. Lit Crit-2
8. IWE-2
8. CS
Part 2
9. Mod Lit
10. AmLit
11. PCL
12. ELT-1
13. New Lit
14. AfLit
15. Mass Media
16. ELT-2
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9. Mod Lit
Paper 9 The Modernist Literature
Unit 1: Reading Material on The Waste Land
The Waste Land with Explanation
The Waste Land as Modern Epic Poem
Unity of the poem - The Waste Land
Themes - The Waste Land
The Complexity of the poem
The Mythical Technique in The Waste Land
Comment on Five Parts of the poem - 'The Waste Land'
Presentations:
General Introduction and Thematic Study
Universal Human Laws in The Waste Land
Autobiographical Elements in The Waste Land
All Presentations and Online Test to check understanding
Additional Reading:
Critics on The Waste Land
Buddha - Cardinal Discourses - Fire Sermon
Upanishadic Perceptions in T. S. Eliot's Poetry and Drama
"Shantih" in The Waste Land
New Readings in "The Waste Land"
The Waste Land and the Upanishads : What Does the Thunder Say?
Check your understanding of the poem - online test / quiz
Questions for University Exam
Unit 2: Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse
Original etext - Marked Copy
Study Notes on To The Lighthouse:
Gradesaver
Sparknotes
Symbolism in
To The Lighthouse
Narrative Technique - Stream of Consciousness in
To The Lighthouse
Research Articles:
Mythic Patterns in
To The Lighthouse
Fluidity vs Masculinity: Lily's Dilemma in Woolf's
To The Lighthouse
Vision in To The Lighthouse by Glenn Pedersen
Click here for detailed discussion on
To The Lighthouse
To check your understanding of the novel, take this online test
Questions for Examination- To The Lighthouse
Unit 3: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Original Play Act 1
Original Play Act 2
Existentialism
Sisyphus - the Absurd Hero
Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
Circular Nature of the Play
Political Reading of the Play
Deconstructive Reading of the Play
Psychoanalytical Reading of the Play
Postmodernist Reading of the Play
Three Plays - Oedipus, Hamlet and Waiting for Godot
Hindu Philosophy and Waiting for Godot
Lucky's Speech: Explanation
Dirty Jokes in the play
Question Bank - Waiting for Godot
Worksheet - Film Screening
Check your progress - Online Test
Watch these video resources to understand Existentialism
Unit 4: The Birthday Party: Harold Pinter
Original Play
Biography of Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party as Theatre of Absurd
Introduction - Setting, Characters, Pinteresque etc
Various Themes and Interpretations of the Play
Comedy of Menace
Language in 'The Birthday Party'
Feminist Reading of the Play
Research Articles:
Pinter's Birthday Party: The Film and the Play - Harriet and Irving Deer
Art, Truth and Politics - Excerpt from Nobel 2005 Speech by Harold Pinter
- for complete Speech
click here
The Peopled Wound: The Works of Harold Pinter - Martin Esslin
Reflections on Pinter's 'The Birthday Party - Simon O. Lesser
A poem on the play - 'A View of the Party'
Worksheet on the Screening of the Film - The Birthday Party
Check your progress - online test
Unit 5: The Background Reading: Modernist Literature
'The Setting' of the Modern Times and Literature
The Literary Modernism / Modernist Literature
Literary Movements - Modernism and other movements
Modernism
Modernism - Peter Barry
Understanding Modernism and PostModernism
Video Resources:
Modernism and English Literature
Introduction to Modernism
Take this online test to know your understanding of the Modernist Literature
Very Short Modern Poems
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