SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF LECTURER (10+2) ENGLISH
Unit I: History of English Literature
Middle English, Renaissance, Restoration period, Augustan Age, Romantic Age, Victorian Age, The
Modern period, Postmodern Age
Unit II: English Poetry (16th to 20th Century)
Willam Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope,
John Dryden, William Wordsworth, S T Coleridge, P B Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, William
Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mathew Arnold, Robert Browning, W B Yeats, T S Eliot, Ted Hughes
Unit III: English Drama (Elizabethan to Postmodern)
Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, William Congreve, John Dryden, P B Shelley, Oscar
Wilde, G B Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekov, Eugene O’Neill, Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, Tom
Stoppard
Unit IV: English Novel (From 18th to 20th Century)
Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte,
Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Geroge Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia
Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Margaret Atwood
Unit V: Literary Theory and Criticism (From Classical to 20th Century)
Classical Greek Criticism, Neo-Classical Criticism, Romantic Criticism, Victorian Criticism, New
Criticism, Post-Structuralist Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism
Unit VI: Indian English Literature and American Literature
Mulk Raj Anand, R K Narayan, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Kamala Das, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy,
Nissim Ezekiel, Mahesh Dattani
Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Sylvia
Plath, Arthur Miller, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman
Unit VII: Grammar/ Literary Devices
Tenses, Syntax, Collocation, Punctuation, Articles, Narration (Direct & Indirect), Error spotting,
Spellings, One word substitution, Homophones, Homonyms
Alliteration, Pun, Assonance, Consonance, Paradox, Hyperbole, Conceit, Simile, Metaphor,
Oxymoron, Onomatopoeia, Irony, Allusion, Apostrophe, Anaphora, Synecdoche, Allegory,
Personification, Imagery, symbol, Metonymy, Euphemism etc