Cleanth Brooks | The Well-Wrought Urn, Paradox & The Heresy of Paraphrase | UGC NET Literary Theory

Welcome to the Complete Literary Theory Series by English Winglish (Pooja Singh)!!
This video covers New Criticism, Formalism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Reader Response, Feminism, Marxism, New Historicism, and Postcolonial Criticism. Learn important thinkers, critics, and key terms that are most repeated in UGC NET/JRF exams.

This playlist covers all major critics, schools of thought, and theories that are important for UGC NET English, SET, MA English, PhD Entrance Exams, and other literature-related competitive exams.

If you want one-stop, structured, and exam-focused Literary Theory this is the right place for you

What You’ll Learn in This Playlist

We will cover all major movements, books, and critics such as:

✅ I.A. Richards – Meaning of Meaning, Practical Criticism, Four Kinds of Meaning, Two Uses of Language
✅ William Empson– Seven Types of Ambiguity, Some Versions of Pastoral, Milton’s God
✅ T.S. Eliot – Tradition and the Individual Talent, Objective Correlative
✅ Cleanth Brooks – The Heresy of Paraphrase, Well-Wrought Urn
✅ John Crowe Ransom – The New Criticism
✅ Northrop Frye– Anatomy of Criticism, Archetypal Criticism
✅ Roland Barthes – Death of the Author, Mythologies
✅ Michel Foucault – What is an Author?, Power and Discourse
✅ Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction, Différance
✅ Sigmund Freud – Psychoanalysis, Id, Ego, Superego
✅ Lacan, Althusser, Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton, Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, and many more…

👉 Each video explains:

Theory in simple language.
Real-life & exam-relevant examples.
PYQs (Previous Year Questions).
Storytelling approach for better memory.

🔗 Important Video Links (Must Watch for UGC NET)

🎥 Complete Guide to UGC NET English Paper 2👉   • Complete UGC NET Preparation Series  

🎥 Most Repeated PYQs in English Literature👉    • Most Repeated PYQs | UGC NET English Liter...  

🎥 British Literature – Yearwise PYQs👉   • Most Repeated PYQs in British Literature |...  

🎥 Paper 1 Series: From NOT to NET👉   • UGC NET Paper 1 Full Course - From "NOT" t...  



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🎯 Why This Playlist is Important

Literary Theory carries a huge weightage in UGC NET English (10–12 questions directly from theory).

Most aspirants get confused with jargon — I break it into simple, story-based explanations

Covers everything: New Criticism → Structuralism → Poststructuralism → Postcolonialism → Feminism → Ecocriticism


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