CC-1: English Language: Overview & Usage; Literary Types

Presentation on the History of the English language by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here

CC-2: European Classical Literature

1. Performance of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Part 1 – Click here
2. Performance of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Part 2 – Click here
3. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on The Oresteia (Agamemnon is the first play in the Oresteia trilogy) – Click here
4. Audio book, The Oresteia (translation by E.D.A. Morshead) – Click here
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Chorus – Click here
6. Presentation on introduction to Greek Tragedy by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here
7. Performance of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (William Shatner, 1957) — Click here

CC-3: Indian Classical Literature & Indian Writing in English

Audio Lecture on Nissim Ezekiel’s “Night of the Scorpion” by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here

CC-4: British Literature: Old English Period to 14th Century

1. Presentation on Alliterative Verse by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here
2. Literature Shorts: Backbencher’s Guide to English Literature Season 3 Episode 1: “The Monster as the Outsider in Beowulf” by Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, KIIT – Click here

CC-5: American Literature

1. Annotated text of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” – Click here
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica article on “The Purloined Letter” – Click here
3. Literature Shorts: Backbencher’s Guide to English Literature Season 2 Episode 1: “Crime Fiction: An Introduction,” Part-1 by Somnath Basu, Assistant Professor, Ramananda College, Bankura – Click here
4. Text of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Crack-Up” – Click here
5. Text of Anne Bradstreet, “Prologue” – Click here
6. Text of Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” – Click here
7. Text of Walt Whitman’s “I Sit and Look Out” – Click here
8. Critical essay on Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” – Click here
9. Critical essay on Walt Whitman’s “I Sit and Look Out” – Click here

CC-6: British Poetry & Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries

1. Annotated text and modern translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 – Click here
2. Annotated text and modern translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65 – Click here
3. Annotated text and modern translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 137 – Click here
4. Presentation on introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here
5. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Click here
6. Critical essay titled “A Modern Perspective: Shakespeare’s Sonnets” by Lynne Magnusson – Click here
7. Videotaped version of Trevor Nunn’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare – Click here
8. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on Shakespeare’s Macbeth – Click here
9. HD Restored Edition of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night– Click here
10. Performance of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the Flint Hills Shakespeare Festival (2019) – Click here
11. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on the Metaphysical Poets – Click here

CC-7: British Poetry & Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries

1. Annotated text of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book 1 – Click here
2. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on Milton – Click here

CC-8: British Literature: 18th Century

1. Presentation on Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here
2. Study Guide to William Congreve’s Way of the World – Click here

CC-9: British Romantic Literature

1. Presentation on Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here
2. Annotated text of “Kubla Khan” – Click here
3. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on May Shelley’s Frankenstein – Click here

CC-10: British Literature: 19th Century

1. Presentation on the Dramatic Monologue by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here
2. Annotated text of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” – Click here
3. Text (with detailed annotation) of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” – Click here

CC-11: British Literature: The Early 20th Century

1. History Documentary on the life and works of G. Bernard Shaw – Click here
2. Movie, Arms and the Man – Click here
3. Literature Shorts: Backbencher’s Guide to English Literature Season 1 Episode 1: “Women and a New Urban Gaze in Virginia Woolf’s Essays and Fiction” by Sujaan Mukherjee, PhD Researcher, Jadavpur University – Click here
4. Literature Shorts: Backbencher’s Guide to English Literature Season 1 Episode 2: “Space, Time and Character in Virginia Woolf’s Essays and Fiction” by Sujaan Mukherjee, PhD Researcher, Jadavpur University – Click here
5. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway – Click here
6. “BBC Radio 4 In Our Time” discussion on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – Click here
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness – Click here

DSE-1 English: Popular Literature or Literature of the Indian Diaspora

1. Encyclopaedia.com article on Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist – Click here
2. In-depth interview with Paulo Coelho – Click here
3. Review of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist published in the magazine, Kirkus Reviews – Click here
4. Review of Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Click here
5. Review of Indra Bahadur Rai’s There’s a Carnival Today translated by Manjushree Thapa – Click here
6. Review article on Indra Bahadur Rai’s There’s a Carnival Today translated by Manjushree Thapa – Click here
7. Interview of Manjushree Thapa and excerpts from There’s a Carnival Today, her translation of Indra Bahadur Rai’s novel – Click here
8. Interview of Manjushree Thapa on Indra Bahadur Rai’s There’s a Carnival Today – Click here

CC-12: Modern European Drama

1. Performance of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros – Click here
2. Performance of Brecht’s Good Person of Szechwan (alternative title of The Good Woman of Setzuan) – Click here
3. Silent movie based on Ibsen’s Ghosts produced by D.W. Griffith and directed by George Nichols – Click here

C-13: Postcolonial Literatures

1. Text of Pablo Neruda’s “Tonight I can write (the saddest lines)” – Click here
2. Audio of Pablo Neruda’s “Tonight I can write (the saddest lines)” – Click here
3. Text of Pablo Neruda’s “What Spain was like” (alternative title of “The way Spain was”) – Click here
4. Text of Mamag Dai’s “Small Towns and the River” – Click here
5. Presentation on Pablo Neruda’s poems by Nikhilesh Bhattacharya – Click here
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica article on the Spanish Civil War, which forms the backdrop of Neruda’s poem, “The way Spain was” – Click here 
7. Video Lecture on Mamag Dai’s poetry by Parjanya Sen, Assistant Professor, Sonada Degree College – Click here