20th Cen-1

Unit 1: Reading Material on The Waste Land

• What makes 'The Waste Land' a difficult poem?

• The Waste Land with Explanation

• The Waste Land (Overview)

• The Waste Land as a 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 Poe - '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

  •  Newer 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 Orlando - A Biography

Why should we read Virginia Woolf?

Documentary on Virginia Woolf

Summary with Quotes from the original text

Presentation on Orlando

Presentation on Orlando [Points of Critical Analysis]

Overview of the novel "'Orlando - A Biography"

Stream of Consciousness (video)

Quiz

Question Bank

Further Reading:

Peony, Daffodil &. “Transcending Boundaries | Orlando - Virginia Woolf.” Medium, 12 Aug. 2023, medium.com/@daffodilandpeony/transcending-boundaries-orlando-virginia-woolf-82dcdccb5f2a. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.

Unit 3 - The Great Gatsby

1. Original Novel (Restricted access. Only for Dept Students. Copyright material.)

2. Critical Appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

3. The Social Context - Gatsby and the Jazz Age

4. Thematic Study - The American Dream, The Class Conflict

5. Symbols in the Novel - The Green Light, The Valley of Ashes,  The Eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg

6. Symbolism (article)

7. The Green Light

8. The Eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg (Read this also)

9. Character Study

10. The Ending of the Novel

11. Modernism and Realism

12. Research Articles & Critical Essays on 'The Great Gatsby' (Restricted access. Only for Dept Students. Copyright material.)

13. Study Questions and Answers

14. Online Test - Check your understandingAdditional Video Resources

Unit 4 - Poems: W. B. Yeats

1. On Being Asked for a War Poem

2. The Second Coming

3. Reading 'The Second Coming' as a Pandemic Poem

4. In-depth analysis of these two poems

5. Questions

6. Check your understanding of the poems - Online Test