UGC-NET SYLLABUS  – Complete syllabus of ENGLISH LITERATURE / PAPER 2

UNIT-1 DRAMA

• Beginnings of the English drama history and development
• Mystery plays, Miracle and Morality Plays
• History and Background of Elizabethan theatre
• Early Elizabethan playwrights – Marlow, Green, Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Lodge Shakespeare
• Jacobean and Caroline’s playwrights – Johnson, Chapman, Beaumont & Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker, Massinger, Ford, Shirley, Marston
• Restoration to Modern playwrights – John Dryden ‘Etherege, Wycherley, Farquhar, Vanbrugh, Colley Cibber, Otway, William Congreve, John Gay, Galsworthy, Shaw, Eliot, Sean O Casey, L.M. Synge
• Development of Postmodern Drama – Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, John Osborne, Noel Coward, and other playwrights.

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UNIT-2 POETRY

• Origin and development of English poetry
• Old English poetry to Medieval poetry
• Renaissance Poetry (Elizabethan, Jacobean and Puritan)- English poetry and sonnet sequences, Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney, Thomas Sackville, Michael Drayton, Various schools of poetry ‘Metaphysical Poets’ and ‘Cavalier Poets’; John Donne, Abraham Cowley, Crashaw, Vaughan, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Herrick’, Milton
• Neoclassical Poetry (Restoration, Augustan and Transitional)- Dryden, Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, Margaret Cavandish and Burn’s
• Romantic Poetry – William Blake, William Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly, Southey, Lord Byron, John Keats.
• Victorian Poetry – Tennyson, Browning, EB Browning were John Clare, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats, Kipling, Hardy, and Hopkins
• Pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood Modern and Post-Modern Age ; Georgian Poets & World War I
• Modernism in English poetry – T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, Stevenson, Auden group, War Poetry, William Carlos, Williams Rainer, Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud

UNIT-3 FICTION, SHORT STORY

• Historical development of fiction as a genre & short stories – Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan, Sir Thomas Malory, Jonathan Swift,
• From the beginning of English novels – Four Wheels of Novel – Samuel Richardson, Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Oliver
• Novels in 19th Century and novelists
• Realism & naturalism in novels and novelists like; Henrik Ibsen, G.B. Shaw, John Galsworthy
• Modern & Postmodern novels and novelists

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UNIT-4 NON-FICTIONAL PROSE

• Development of non-fictional prose
• Origin, nature, elements & development,
• Reality & imagination,
• Style of non-fictional prose
• Journalism, Entertainment, & Philosophy
• Religion & Politics

UNIT-5 LANGUAGE: BASIC CONCEPTS, THEORIES & PEDAGOGY, ENGLISH IN USE

• Approach, Methods & Technique
• Approach, Design & Procedure
• Three principal views 1. The Structural view 2. The Functional view 3.The Interactive view
• English Teaching Methods
• The Direct Method
• The Grammar Translation Methods
• The Audio-Lingual Methods
• The Structural Approach
• Physical Response
• Communicative Language Teaching
• The Silent Way
• Task Based Language Learning
• The Natural Approach
• The Lexical Approach
• Suggestopedia

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Unit-6 ENGLISH IN INDIA: HISTORY, EVOLUTION & FUTURES

• Introduction of English Language in India
• 1813 Act & the Education
• General Committee of Public Instruction (1823)
• Lord Macaulay’s Education Policy (1835)
• Wood’s Dispatch, 1854 Hunter Commission (1882-83)
• Saddler Commission (1917-1919)
• Indian English Literature History and development
• Indian Writers

Unit-7 CULTURAL STUDIES

• History and Development of Cultural Studies
• Definition, Theory & Methodologies
• Issues, Concepts & Approach & Structure
• Marxism, Feminism, Race & Culture
• Globalization, Popular Culture, Low Culture or Culture Of masses
• Cultural Consumption
• The Concept of “text”
• Prominent Cultural Theorist – Stuart Hall

UNIT-8 LITERARY CRITICISM

• Literary Criticism- An Introduction
• Types of Literary Criticism
• Function of Literary Criticism
• Historical Development
• Medieval Period
• The Renaissance
• Neoclassicism Romanticism
• The Nineteenth Century

Unit-9 LITERARY THEORY POST WORLD WAR II

• Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s)
• Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism (1930s)
• Marxist Criticism (1930s-present) Reader-Response Criticism (1960s)
• Structuralism & Semiotics (1920s-present) Post-Structuralism & Deconstruction (1966s)
• New Historicism (1980s)
• Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s)
• Feminist Criticism
• Gender & Queer Studies
• Critical Race Theory

UNIT-10 RESEARCH METHODS AND MATERIALS IN ENGLISH

• Research Introduction
• Research Types
• Research Methods, Thesis & Hypothesis
• Research Tools, Sampling
• Clarity, Precision & Academic Expression
• Writing the Research Paper & Submissions