# Literary Criticism (From Plato to Leavis)

- Institution: IIT Madras
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Merin Simi Raj
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106171)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106171)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

## Lectures

1. [Introduction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/e1111ab6e2cf) (Video)
2. [Aristotles Poetics Session 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/5a125910d9f0) (Video)
3. [Aristotles Poetics Session 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/b163f5821fb8) (Video)
4. [Aristotles Poetics Session 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/772b57e929f8) (Video)
5. [Longinus On the Sublime Session 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/409c16ee39c9) (Video)
6. [Longinus On the Sublime Session 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/948ce2cfd206) (Video)
7. [Longinus On the Sublime Session 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/8e42d51095fe) (Video)
8. [Scott James The First Romantic Critic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/5370d4c52798) (Video)
9. [Philip Sidneys -An Apology for Poetry- (Session 1)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/9f201bfa9af5) (Video)
10. [Philip Sidneys -An Apology for Poetry- (Session 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/26d211329e33) (Video)
11. [Philip Sidneys -An Apology for Poetry- (Session 3)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/32a7744c7b87) (Video)
12. [Philip Sidneys -An Apology for Poetry- (Session 4)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/722bafefd437) (Video)
13. [The Foundations of Western Philosophy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/cfaa665acb6c) (Video)
14. [Horaces Ars Poetica](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/87a785ebb0e4) (Video)
15. [John Drydens Preface to The Fables](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/318e9d39d0b5) (Video)
16. [Critical Importance of Aphra Behn](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/9a70e11b45b5) (Video)
17. [Samuel Johnsons Preface to Shakespeare ( Session 1 )](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/e9c9d6579128) (Video)
18. [Samuel Johnsons Preface to Shakespeare ( Session 2 )](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/bc552d289ed7) (Video)
19. [Samuel Johnsons Preface to Shakespeare ( Session 3 )](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/30ddc06c9b3a) (Video)
20. [Samuel Johnsons Preface to Shakespeare ( Session 4 )](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/eb3d8a334695) (Video)
21. [Wordsworths "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/08efd2968d36) (Video)
22. [Coleridges "Biographia Literaria" (Chapter 13 and 14)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/beb5a75d0b03) (Video)
23. [Shelleys A Defence of Poetry Part -1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/255eec5660ca) (Video)
24. [Shelleys A Defence of Poetry Part -2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/53bb49a4739f) (Video)
25. [Shelleys A Defence of Poetry Part -3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/63b2b7c0d0ff) (Video)
26. [Shelleys A Defence of Poetry Part -4](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/9a3ef30c5843) (Video)
27. [Introduction to Peter Barrys Literary Theory](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/a5e67c04edd9) (Video)
28. [Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Women](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/1a5223f9f71c) (Video)
29. [Edgar Allan Poes The Poetic Principle Part - 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/a154c1702496) (Video)
30. [Edgar Allan Poes The Poetic Principle Part - 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/08a311ac515c) (Video)
31. [Leo Tolstoys What is Art?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/788377f91d8d) (Video)
32. [Matthew Arnolds Study of Poetry](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/43fbb2436a88) (Video)
33. [Matthew Arnolds Sweetness And Light](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/164e80c40a49) (Video)
34. [Russian Formalism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/1a53364607a1) (Video)
35. [Henry James "The Art of Fiction" ( Session 1 )](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/a185d0806e2c) (Video)
36. [T.S. Eliots "Tradition and Individual Talent"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/4a6696d82b27) (Video)
37. [T.S. Eliots "Tradition and Individual Talent" (Session 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/792033e559ab) (Video)
38. [Virginia Woolfs "Modern Fiction"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/a25cb76acd3b) (Video)
39. [Virginia Woolfs "Modern Fiction" (Session 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/171b640c9830) (Video)
40. [Virginia Woolfs "A Room of Ones Own"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/79ad95479234) (Video)
41. [Virginia Woolfs "A Room of Ones Own" (Session 1)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/2f2e9b098a9f) (Video)
42. [Virginia Woolfs "A Room of Ones Own" (Session 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/678c0872121a) (Video)
43. [Virginia Woolfs "A Room of Ones Own" (Session 3)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/ce3486dddf31) (Video)
44. [Rene Welleks The New Criticism: Pro and Contra](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/14be0014e730) (Video)
45. [Walter Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/a69a44ff274c) (Video)
46. [Walter Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/191b502ea9af) (Video)
47. [Walter Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/c31ba4c2cdb8) (Video)
48. [Walter Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 4](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/bedb3a5ef9d1) (Video)
49. [Walter Benjamins The Storyteller](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/fb4d161481d7) (Video)
50. [FR Leavis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/0d421f63ec0d) (Video)
51. [FR Leaviss "The Great Tradition" (Session 1)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/ea8bd4483a50) (Video)
52. [FR Leaviss "The Great Tradition" (Session 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/31b0522bd299) (Video)
53. [FR Leaviss "The Great Tradition" (Session 3)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/cec021dc8940) (Video)
54. [Viktor Shklovskys Art as Technique](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106171/81c57f51d8ea) (Video)