UGC NET 2019 English Literature Syllabus

UGC NET English Syllabus

Unit –I : Drama

Unit –II : Poetry

Unit –III : Fiction, short story

Unit –IV : Non-Fictional Prose

NOTE: The first four units must also be tested through comprehension passages to assess critical

reading, critical thinking and writing skills. These four units will cover all literatures in English.

Unit –V : Language: Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy. English in Use.

Unit –VI : English in India: history, evolution and futures

Unit –VII : Cultural Studies

Unit –VIII : Literary Criticism

Unit –IX : Literary Theory post World War II

Unit –X : Research Methods and Materials in English

UNIT I – Drama Content

DRAMA CONTENT

1.      Introduction

1.      Forms of Drama

2.      Medieval Drama

3.      Mystery play

2.      The Second Shepherds’ Play

1.      Miracle play

2.      Morality plays

f.     Hrotsvitha

1.      Everyman – Play

1.      Mummers Play

2.      Greek Drama

2.      Mimesis

1.      Roman drama

2.      Elizabethan and Jacobian Drama

3.      Elizabethan Drama Features

4.      English theatres

5.      Playing companies

6.      Elizebethan Playwrights:

k.    Restoration Drama

a.    Restoration Drama Characteristics

2.      Aristophanes (446 BC – 386 BC)

3.      The Clouds

4.      Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC)

5.      Electra

6.      Sophocles (497/6 – 406/5 BC)

1.      Ajax

2.      Antigone

3.      Women of Trachis

4.      Oedipus at Colonus

5.      Electra

f.     Philoctetes

1.      Oedipus Rex, or Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King

2.      Oedipus The King

5.      Aeschylus (524 – 456/455)

i.    Agamemnon

ii.    The Libation Bearers

iii.    The Eumenides

iv.    The Persians

v.    Seven Against Thebes

vi.    The Suppliants

§  Oresteia

§  Proteus

1.      Prometheus Bound

a.    Electra (Euripides play)

1.      Medea

2.      Orestes

3.      Hippolytus

4.      Herakles

5.      The Trojan Women

6.      John Heywood – (1497 – 1580)

1.      A Play of Four “P” S

2.      A Woman Killed with Kindness

7.      Nicholas Udall – (1504 – 1556)

8.      Roister Doister

9.      Thomas Norton (1532 – 1584)

10.  Thomas Sackville (1536 –1608)

11.  Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex

12.  John Still – (1543 – 1607/8)

13.  Gammer Gurton’s Needle.

14.  John Lyly  (1553 or 1554 – 1606)

15.  Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt

16.  George Peele (1556 – 1596)

1.      The Arraignment of Paris

2.      The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First

c.    The Old Wives’ Tale

d.    The Battle of Alcazar

e.    David and Bethsabe

1.      The Troublesome Reign of King John

13.  Robert Greene – ( 1558 – 1592)

14.  Thomas Kyd. (1558 – 1594)

15.  The Spanish Tragedy

16.  Thomas Lodge -(1558 – 1625)

17.  The Wounds of Civil War

18.  Francis Beaumont (1584 – 1616)

19.  George Chapman- (1559 – 1634)

a.    Bussy D’Ambois

b.    The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron

1.      The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France

2.      Caesar and Pompey

e.    The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn

18.  Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)

1.      University Wits

2.      Doctor Faustus

3.      The Jew of Malta

4.      Taburlaine

5.      Edward II

6.      Dido, Queen of Carthage

19.  Thomas Nashe (1567 – 1601)

1.      The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton

2.      Summer’s Last Will and Testament

20.  Thomas Heywood (1570 – 1641)

21.  A Woman Killed with Kindness

22.  John Fletcher- (1579 – 1625)

23.  John Webster Webster  (1580 – 1634)

1.      The Duchess of Malfi

2.      The White Devil

22. Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627)

a.    The Revenger’s Tragedy

b.    A Game at Chess

c.    The Changeling

23.  John Ford  (1586 – 1639)

24.  ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

25.  George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1592 – 1628)

26.  John Dryden (1631 – 1700)

a.    The Indian Queen

b.    The Indian Emperour

c.    The Tempest (Dryden and D’Avenant play)

d.    The Mistaken Husband

e.    The Mistaken Husband

1.      The State of Innocence

2.      All for Love

26.  Sir George Etherege(1636 – 1692)

27.  The Man of Mode

26. Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639 – 1701)

27. Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689)

28. George Farquhar(1677 – 1707)

a.    The Recruiting Officer

1.      The Beaux’ Stratagem

29.  William Wycherley (1641 – 1716)

a.    The Country Wife

1.      William Congreve

2.      The Way of The World

d.    The Old Bachelor

e.    The Double Dealer

f.     The Mourning Bride

1.      Love for Love

30. Thomas Shadwell (1642 – 1692)

31.  Thomas Otway (1652 – 1685)

a.    Venice Preserv’d

1.      The Orphan

32.  Nathaniel Lee (1653 – 1692)

a.    Oedipus

1.      The Rival Queens

33.  Sir John Vanbrugh (1664 – 1726)

a.    The Relapse

1.      Sequel: The Relapse

c.    The Provoked Wife

1.      Kit-Cat Club

34.  Colley Cibber (1671 – 1757)

35.  Love’s Last Shift

36.  Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)

37.  Cato

36. Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 1774)

c.    She stoops to conquer

37.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 -1832)

38.  Faust

39.  Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751 – 1816)

1.      The school for scandal

2.      The Rivals

3.      A Trip to Scarborough

40.  Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805)

41.  William Tell

42.  Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906)

43.  A Doll’s House

41. Lady Gregory (1852 – 1932)

a.    Cathleen ni Houlihan

b.    The Rising of the Moon

c.    Spreading the News

42.  Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

a.    Salomé

1.      Lady Windermere’s Fan

2.      A Woman of No Importance

3.      An Ideal Husband

4.      The Importance of Being Earnest

43.  George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

1.      Widowers’ Houses

2.      Man and Superman

3.      The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

d.    Don Juan in Hell

1.      Pygmalion

44. Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904)

1.      The Seagull

b.    The Cherry Orchard

45.  John Masefield (1878 – 1967)

46.  M Barrie (1860 – 1937)

a.    Mary Rose

b.    Peter and Wendy

47.  Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)

1.      Mukta Dhara

2.      Girish Raghunath Karnad

3.      Tughlaq

4.      Larins Sahib

48. W. B. Yeats (1865 – 1939)

a.    At the Hawk’s Well

b.    Diarmuid and Grania

c.    On Baile’s Strand

d.    Purgatory

e.    The Land of Heart’s Desire

f.     Cathleen ni Houlihan

g.    The Countess Cathleen

h.    Mosada

49.  Joe Orton (1933 – 1967)

50.  John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933)

1.      Harley Granville-Barker

2.      The Madras Hous

51. Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936)

a.    Six Characters in Search of an Author

52.  Sean O’Casey (1880 -1964)

53.  Juno and the Paycock

54.  James Joyce (1882 – 1941)

55.  Exiles

54. Nikos Kazantzakis(1883 – 1957)

d.    Buddha

55.  Eugene O’Neill(1888 – 1953)

a.    The Hairy Ape

1.      The Great God Brown

2.      Death of a Salesman

56.  John Arden ( 1930 – 2012)

57.  Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956)

58.  Mother Courage and Her Children

59.  Herbert Ernest Bates (1905 – 1974)

60.  Harold Pinter(1930 – 2008)

1.      The Birthday Party

2.      The Homecoming

1.      The Caretaker

1.      The Room

2.      No Man’s Land

3.      One for the Road

60. Henry Livings(1929 – 1998)

61. Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)

a.    Krapp’s Last Tape

b.    Happy Days

c.    Waiting for Godot

d.    Endgame

62. Christopher Fry (1907 – 2005)

a.    The Lady’s Not for Burning

b.    Ring Round the Moon

63.  Eugène Ionesco ( 1909 – 1994)

a.    The Chairs

1.      The Irish Dramatic Movement

64. Tennessee Williams(1911 – 1983)

a.    The Glass Menagerie

b.    A Streetcar Named Desire

65. Terence Rattigan (1911 – 1977)

a.    John Whiting(1917 – 1963)

66. Norman Frederick “N. F.” Simpson  (1919 – 2011)

67. Brendan Behan (1923 – 1964)

68. Badal Sarkar (1925 – 2011)

1.      Ebang Indrajit

2.      Evam Indrajit

c.    Pagla Ghoda

69. Asif Currimbhoy (1928 – 1994)

a.    Inquilab

70.  Edward Albee (1928 – 2016)

a.    The American Dream

b.    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

71.  John James Osborne (1929 – 1994)

72.  Look Back in Anger

73.  Sir Arnold Wesker ( 1932 – 2016)

1.      Chicken Soup with Barley

2.      Roots

74.  Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (1934)

75.  The Lion and the Jewel

74. Caryl Churchill (1938)

b.    Top Girls

75. Shelagh Delaney (1938 – 2011)

a.    A Taste of Honey

76.  Tom Stoppard (1937)

1.      Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

b.    Jumpers

c.    Travesties

d.    Rough Crossing

e.    Arcadia

f.     Indian Ink

g.    The Invention of Love

1.      The Hard Problem

77. Mahesh Dattani (1958)

a.    Final Solutions

78.  Douglas Stewart (1963 – 1985)

79.  Ned Kelly

UNIT II – Poetry

POETRY

UGC NET English

1.      Horace

2.      Ars Poetica

3.      Dante Alighier(1265 – 1321)

1.      The Divine Comedy

4.      John Gower (1330 – 1408)

1.      Confessio Amantis

5.      William Langland (1332 – 1386)

1.      Piers Plowman

6.      Chaucer (1343 – 1400)

1.      Troilus and Criseyde:

2.      The Book of the Duchess:

3.      The Parliament of Fowls

4.      The House of Fame

5.      The Legend of Good Women

6.      The Canterbury Tales

7.      John Heywood (1497 – 1580)

1.      Verse

8.      Thomas Wyatt (1503 -1542)

1.      Wyatt’s poems

2.      “Forget Not Yet”

3.      “The Appeal”

9.      Earl of surrey (1516 -1547)

10.  Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 1599)

1.      Farie Queen

2.      Epithalamion

3.      Prothalamion

4.      The Shepherd’s Calendar

5.      Amoretti

6.      Astrophel

7.      Colin Clouts Come Home Againe

11.  Sir Philip Sidney (1554 -1586)

12.  Astrophil and stella

13.  Arcadia

14.  The Spider and The Flie (1556)

1.      Richard Tottel

2.      Tottel’s Miscellany

15.  Robert Greene (1558 – 1592)

16.  George Chapman (1559 -1634)

17.  Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)

1.      Hero and Leander

14. Shakespeare (1564 –1616)

a.    Sonnets

15.  Samuel Purchas (1577 – 1626)

1.      Purchas his Pilgrimage

16.  John Donne (1572 – 1631)

17.  John Donne

18.  Metaphysical Poetry

19.  The Canonization

20.  The Ecstasie

21.  Elegies

22.  Robert Herrick (1591 –1674)

23.  Herbert (1593 – 1633)

1.      “Affliction”

2.      The Pulley

19. Thomas Nash (1593 –1647)

a.    The Choice of Valentines

1.      The Terrors of the Night

2.      Thomas Carew (1595 –1640)

1.      The cavalier poets

3.      John Milton (1608 -1674)

1.      Paradise Lost

2.      Paradise Regained

3.      Samson Agonites

4.      Sir John Suckling (1609 – 1641)

5.      Richard Crashaw (1613 –1649)

6.      Richard Love lace

7.      Abraham Cowley (1618 –1667)

8.      Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678)

1.      To his Coy Mistress

2.      Garden

9.      Henry Vaughan (1621 – 1695)

10.  Regeneration

27. George Villiers (1628 – 1687)

28.  Dryden (1631 – 1700)

1.      Meckfleck

2.      Absalom and Achitophel

3.      Dryden’ Mac Flecknoe

4.      Religio Laici

5.      A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

6.      The Hind and the Panther

7.      Mac Flecknoe

29. Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (1639 – 1701)

30. Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692)

a.    Jonatham Suift

31.  Alexander Pope Pope (1688 – 1744)

1.      The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

2.      The Rape of the lock

3.      An Essay on Criticism

4.      Pastorals

5.      Discourse on Pastoral Poetry

6.      Dunciad

7.      An Essay on Man

8.      The Imitations of Horace

32.  James Thomson (1700 –1748)

33.  Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

1.      The Vanity of Human Wishes

34.  Thomas Gray (1716 –1771)

1.      Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

35.  William Collins (1721 –1759)

36.  Oliver Goldsmith (1728 – 1774)

a.    The Hermit

b.    The Deserted Village

1.      The Traveller

37. Thomas Percy (1729 – 1811)

a.    Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

38.  William Cowper (1731 – 1800)

1.      The task

39.  Thomas Chatterton (1752 – 1770)

40.  William Blake (1757 – 1827)

1.      Songs of Innocence

2.      Songs of Experience

3.      Poison Tree

4.      The Human Abstract

5.      The Clod and the Pebble

6.      The Book of Urizen

7.      The eternal laws of God”

41.  Robert Burns (1759 – 1796)

1.      Tam o’ Shanter

2.      The Jolly Beggar

42.  Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

43.  Ode : Intimations of Immortality

44.  Tintern Abbey

45.  The Prelude

46.  Daffodiles

47.  Solitary Reaper

48.  Walter scott (1771 – 1832)

a.    The Lady of the Lake (poem)

b.    Scott The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

44.  Coleridge (1772 – 1834)

1.      Ode Dejection

2.      Kublakhan

3.      Christophel

4.      The Ancient marriner

5.      Frost at Night

6.      Lyrical Ballads

45.  Robert Southey (1774 – 1843)

46.  Byron (1788 – 1824)

1.      The Prisoner of Chillon

2.      Don Juan

3.      The Vision of Judgment

4.      Beppo: A Venetian Story

47.  B.Shelly (1792 – 1822)

1.      To a Skylark

2.      Queen Mab

3.      Adonis

4.      Ode to west wind

5.      Alastor

6.      Julian and madato

48.  John Clare (1793 – 1864)

49.  John Keats (1795 – 1821)

1.      Ode to Grecian Urn

2.      Ode to autumn

3.      Ode to a Nightingale

4.      Endymion

5.      The Eve of St.Agnes

6.      Hyperion

7.      The Fall of Hyperion

8.      La Belle Dame Sans Merci

9.      Ode on Melancholy

10.  Lamia

11.  “Egotistical sublime”

50.  Elizebeth Brarrett Browning (1806 – 1861)

51.  Connets from Portuguese

52.  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 –1892)

1.      The Charge of the Light Brigade -poem

2.      The Defence of Lucknow

3.      The Princess

4.      Ulysses

5.      Maud

6.      Idylls of the King

7.      Tithonus

8.      Morde’ Arthur

i.      Crossing the Bar –published in 1898

1.      “Tithonus”

2.      “Enoch Arden”

3.      Maud, and Other Poems

52.  Robert Browning (1812 –1889)

1.      Andreadel Sarto

2.      My Last Duchess

3.      Rabbi ben Ezra

4.      Men and Women

53. Charles Baudelaire (1821 –1867)

a.    The Flowers of Evil

54.  Matthew Arnold (1822 –1888)

1.      Dover Beach

2.      The scholar Gipsy

3.      Memorial Verses

55.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 –1882)

1.      The Blessed Damozel

2.      Modern Love

56.  Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)

57.  James Thomson (1834 –1882)

1.      TheCity of Dreadful Night

58.  Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 -1930)

59.  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 -1889)

1.      Curtal sonnet

b.    “The sonnets of desolation”

c.    The Wreck of the Deutschland

60.  William Ernest Henley (1849 -1903)

1.      “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands”

2.      Recessional”

61.  Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

62.  Easter 1916

63.  Sailing to By Zantum

64.  Byzantium

65.  Vision

66.  Tower

67.  Leda and Swan

68.  B.Yeats (1865 -1939)

63. André Gide (1869 –1951)

64.  M. Forster (1879 –1970)

65.  Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955)

1.      The Snow man

66.  Harold Hart Crane ( )

1.      Brooklyn Bridge

70. Shri Purohit Swami Shri Purohit Swami (1882 – 1941)

71.  Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)

a.    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

b.    The Hollow Men

c.    Ash-Wednesday

d.    Four Quartets

1.      Burnt Norton

2.      old possum’s book

3.      Gerontion

4.      East Coker

5.      The Dry Salvages

6.      Little Gidding

k.    The Waste Land

l.      Whispers of Immortality

72.  Wilfred Owen (1893 -1918)

73.  Michael Roberts (1902 –1948)

74.  Cecil Day Lewis (1904 -1972)

75.  H. Auden (1907-1973)

1.      Paid on Both Sides

2.      The Orators: An English Study

3.      The Auden Groupor the Auden Generation

d.    September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden

e.    In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden

76.  Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909 -1995)

77.  Edward Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)

1.      Billy Budd–opera

78.  Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 – 1953)

1.      The New Apocalyptics

2.      Fern Hill

79.  Easter (1916)

1.      Sailing to Byzantium

2.      Rhymers’ Club

3.      A Vision

4.      Lead and Swan

80.  Philip Larkin ( 1922 – 1985 )

81.  Sad steps

82.  Seamus Justin Heaney (1939 – 2013)

83.  Musee des Beaux Arts (1940)

84.  Walter whit man (1819 – 1892)

84.  American Literature

85.  Sylvia Plath(1932 -1963)

1.      Daddy

86.  Allen Ginsberg  (1926 – 1997)

87.  e.e. cummings (1894 – 1962)

1.      The Cambridge ladies

88.  Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)

1.      “Mending Wall”

2.      Birches

3.      West-Running Brook

89.  Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

1.      A something in a Summer’s Day

2.      Bless God, he went as soldier’s

3.      How happy is the little Stone

4.      This is my Letter to The World

5.      It sifts from leaden sieves

6.      Because I could not stop for Death”

90.  Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -1849)

a.    The Haunted Palace

1.      To My Mother

2.      The Lake

90.  Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

91.  A something in a Summer’s Day

92.  Bless God, he went as soldier’s

93.  How happy is the little Stone

94.  This is my Letter to The World.

95.  This is my Letter to The World.

96.  Robert Frost (1874-1963)

97.  Mending Wall

98.  ‘Desert Places‘.

99.  Birches

100.                      West Running Brook.

1.      e.e. cummings (1894 – 1962)

1.      The Cambridge ladies

1.      Harold Hart Crane (1899 -1932)

1.      Brooklyn Bridge

1.      Indian Literature

1.      Tagore

2.      Aurobindo

3.      Sarojini Naidu

4.      Toru Dutt from

5.      K.Ramanujam

6.      Kamala Das

7.      Nissim Ezekiel

8.      Common wealth

9.      Judith Wright

10.  Wole Soyinka

11.  Abioseh Nicoll

12.  D.Hope

e.    Derek Walcott

f.     Omeroos

Fiction & Short Story

1.    Introduction

1.      Types of Novel

2.    Sir Thomas More (1478 –1535)

1.      Utopia

3.      Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616 )

1.      Don Quixote

4.      Sir Francis Bacon(1561 –1626)

1.      New Atlantis

5.      Daniel Defoe (1660 –1731)

1.      Robinson Crusoe

2.      Moll Flanders

6.      Samuel Richardson (1689 –1761)

1.      Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

7.      Henry Fielding (1707 –1754)

1.      Tom Jones

b.    Joseph Andrews

c.    Shamela

d.    Amelia

8.      Laurence Sterne (1713 –1768)

1.      Tristram Shandy

9.      Horace Walpole(1717 –1797)

1.      The Castle of Otranto

10.  Oliver Goldsmith(1728 – 1774)

1.      The Vicar of Wakefield

11.  William Godwin (1756 – 1836)

1.      Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams

12.  Ann Radcliffe (1764 –1823)

1.      The Mysteries of Udolpho

13.  Walter scott(1771 – 1832)

1.      Ivanhoe

2.      The Heart of Midlothian

3.      Rob Roy

d.    Waverley

1.      The Bride of Lammermoor

2.      Quentin Durward

3.      Guy Mannering or The Astrologer

4.      The Antiquary

i.      The Black Dwarf

j.      The Monastery

1.      A Romance

2.      The Pirate

m.   The Fortunes of Nigel

1.      Saint Ronan’s Well

2.      Redgauntlet

3.      The Betrothed

4.      The Talisman

5.      Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one

6.      The Fair Maid of Perth(or  Valentine’s Day)

7.      Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist

8.      Count Robert of Paris

9.      Castle Dangerous

10.  The Abbot

14.  Jane Austen(1775 – 1817)

1.      Sense and Sensibility

2.      Persuasion

3.      Pride and Prejudice

4.      Northanger Abbey

5.      Emma

6.      Mansfield Park

15.  Benjamin Disraeli (1804 –1881)

16.  Hawthorne 1804-1864

1.      A House of the Seven Gables

17.  Elizabeth Gaskell(1810-1865)

18.  William Makepeace Thackeray(1811 –1863)

1.      Vanity Fair

19.  Charles Dickens(1812 –1870)

1.      Great Expectations

2.      David Copperfield

3.      A Tale of Two Cities

4.      Martin Chuzzlewit

5.      The Pickwick Papers

6.      Hard Times

7.      The Old Curiosity Shop

8.      Bleak House

i.      Racism in the work of Charles Dickens

1.      William Makepeace Thackeray(1811 –1863)

2.      Vanity Fair

20.  Anthony Trollope( 1815 – 1882)

1.      Barchester Towers

21.  Charlotte Bronte(1816 – 1855)

1.      Jane Eyre

22.  Emily Bronte(1818-1848)

1.      Wuthering heights

23.  George Eliot (1819 –1880)

1.      Middle March

2.      Adam Bede

24.  Herman Melville(1819 –1891)

1.      Moby-Dick or The Whale

25. Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889)

a.    The Moonstone

26.  George Meredith(1828 – 1909)

1.      The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son

2.      The Egoist

27.  Leo Tolstoy (1828 –1910)

1.      Anna Karenina

28.  Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

1.      Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2.      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

29.  Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902)

1.      Erewhon

2.      The Way of All Flesh

30.  Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)

a.    The Return of the Native

1.      Jude the Obscure

2.      The Mayor of Casterbridge

31.  Henry James (1843-1916)

1.      The lesson of the master

32.  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

1.      The Picture of Dorian Gray

33. Joseph Conrad (1857 –1924)

a.    Lord Jim

1.      Heart of Darkness

c.    The Shadow-Line  or The Shadow-Line: A Confession

34.  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946)

1.      Tono-Bungay

35.  John Galsworth(1867 –1933)

36.  Luigi Pirandello(1867 –1936)

1.      The Late Mattia Pascal

2.      One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

37. W. Somerset Maugham(1874-1965)

38.  M.Forster (1879-1970)

39. Kailyard school(1880-1914)

40. Premchand ( 1880 – 1936)

41.  Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

1.      To the Lighthouse

2.      Orlando

3.      Dalloway

4.      The Waves

5.      The Voyage Out

42.  James Joyce(1882 – 1941)

1.      Finnegans Wake

2.      Ulysses

3.      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

43. Franz Kafka(1883 –1924)

44.  H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

1.      The last lesson Women in Love

45. Katherine Mansfield (1888 –1923)

46.  Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

1.      Time Must Have a Stop

47.  Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

1.      Brave New World

2.      Brave New World Revisited

48.  Ernest Miller Hemingway(1899 –1961)

1.      The Old Man and the Sea

49. Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966)

a.    A Handful of Dust

50.  George Orwell ( 1903-1950)

1.      Nineteen Eighty-Four

51.  Henry Graham Greene(1904-1991)

1.      Brighton Rock

2.      The Heart of the Matter

3.      England Made Me

4.      The End of the Affair

5.      The Man Within

f.     The Human Factor

1.      The Power and the Glory

52.  P.Snow (1905- 1980)

1.      Corridors of Power

53.  Mulk Raj Anand(1905 –2004)

1.      Coolie

2.      Untouchable

54.  K. Narayan(1906 – 2001)

55.  Raja Rao (1908-2006)

56.  Sir William Gerald Golding (1911-1993)

57.  Anthony Burgess(1917 –1993)

58. Doris Lessing(1919 –  2013)

59. Alan Sillitoe(1928 –2010)

60.  John Maxwell Coetzee(born 1940)

61.  S. Maniam (born 1942)

62.  Alice Walker (1944)

63.  Nuruddin Farah (1945)

64.  William John Banville(1945),

65.  Alan Hollinghurst (1954)

66.  Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)

64.  Arundhati Roy (1961)

65.  Alain Mabanckou (1966)

66.  Deshpande (1966-2009)

67.  Helon Habila Ngalabak (1967)

68.  Colson Whitehead (1969)

69.  Marlon James (1970)

UNIT IV – Non Fictional Prose

NON FICTIONAL PROSE

1.      John Wycliffe (1320-1384

2.      Myles Coverdale (1488 -1569)

3.      William Tyndale (1494  1536)

4.      Roger Ascham (1515 – 1568)

1.      Toxophilus

2.      The Scholemaster

1.      George Puttenham (1529–1590)

1.      English Bible History

1.      John Lyly  (1553 or 1554 –1606)

2.      Richard Hooker (1554 – 1600)

1.      Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

1.      Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(1561-1626)

2.      Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627)

10. Francis Quarles (1592 -1644)

a.    Emblem book

11.  Sir Thomas Browne (1605 – 1682)

1.      Urn Burial

1.      Thomas Browne (1605 – 1682)

1.      Religio Medici(The Religion of a Doctor)

2.      The Garden of Cyrus

1.      John Bunyan (1628 – 1688)

1.      The Pilgrim’s Progress

1.      John Locke (1632 – 1704)

2.      Samuel Pepys (1633 – 1703)

16.  Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)

1.      A Tale of a Tub

2.      A Modest Proposal

3.      Drapier’s Letters

4.      Gulliver’s Travels

1.      Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)

18.  Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)

1.      Moral Essays

19.  Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761)

1.      The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia

20.  Samuel Johnson (1709 –1784)

1.      Preface to Shakespeare

2.      Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

1.      Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)

2.      Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794)

3.      Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809)

4.      Charles Lamb (1775 – 1834)

1.      Essay – South sea House -by Charles Lamb

2.      Essay – New year’s Eveby Charles Lamb

§  Essay – Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Agoby Charles Lamb

1.      Essay – Dream-Children; a Reverieby Charles Lamb

2.      Oxford in the vacation

1.      Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

2.      “The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers”

3.      My Relations

4.      Mathew Arnold

5.      Culture and Anarchy

6.      Hellenism and Hebraism

1.      William Hazalitt (1778 – 1830)

1.      Table-Talk-Essays on Men and Manners

2.      The Round Table

3.      The Indian Jugglers

4.      My first acquaintance with poets

1.      Shelly (1792 –  1822)

1.      A Defence of Poetry

1.      Thomas Love Peacock (1785 –  1866)

1.      “The Four Ages of Poetry”

1.      Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881)

1.      The Hero as Man of Letters

2.      Modern Painters

29. John Ruskin (1819 – 1900)

a.    Unto This Last

b.    Sesame and Lilies

30. Lytton Strachey  (1880 – 1932)

a.    Eminent Victorians

1.      Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)

1.      A Room of One’s Own

2.      Professions for Women

3.      The Common Reader

d.    The Modern Essay

e.    The Sun and the Fish

32. Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897 – 1999)

1.      George Orwel (1903 – 1950),

1.      “Politics and the English Language”

2.      The Road to Wigan Pier

1.      C. P. Snow (1905 – 1980)

1.      The Two Cultures

2.      Rede Lecture

35. Jean Baudrillard (1929 – 2007)

36. Aijaz Ahmad (1932)

Unit –VIII : Literary Criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM CONTENT

1.      Longinus ( c. 213 – 273 AD)

1.      On the Sublime

1.      Aristotle (384 – 322)

2.      Plato (428 / 427 or 424 / 423 – 348/347 BC)

1.      Poetics

1.      Socrates (470 / 469 – 399BC)

1.      Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586)

1.      An Apology for Poetry

1.      John Dryden (1631 – 1700)

1.      Essay of Dramatic Poesy

1.      William Wilberforce (1759 –1833)

2.      Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 –  1834)

1.      Biographia Literaria

1.      Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859)

2.      Shelly (1792 –1822)

1.      A Defence of Poetry

1.      Keats (1795 –  1821)

1.      Letters

1.      Percy Wyndham Lewis  (1882 – 1957)

1.      Arnold

2.      The Function of Criticism at the Present time

3.      The Study of Poetry

13.  Virginia Woolf(1882 – 1941)

1.      Bennet and Mrs.Brown

2.      “Modern Fiction”

1.      Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972)

1.      The ABC of Reading

1.      T.S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

1.      Traditions and Indivitual Talents

2.      Metaphysical poets

3.      The Sacred Wood

4.      “Hamlet and His Problems”

1.      Charles Kay Ogden (1889 – 1957)

2.      I. A. Richards (1893 –1979)

1.      Practical Criticism

2.      The Four Kinds of Meaning

1.      F. R. Leavis (1895 – 1978)

19.  Allen Tate (1899 –1979)

1.      Tension in Poetry

20.  Lionel Mordecai Trilling  (1905 –1975)

1.      Sense of the Past

21.  1906 William Empson(1906 – 1984)

1.      The Seventh Type of Ambiguity

1.      Cleanth Brooks (1906 – 1994)

1.      Irony as a Principle of Structure

23. Northrop Frye (1912 – 1991)

1.      Critical path

b.    Anatomy of Criticism

c.    The Archetypes of Literature

1.      Wayne C. Booth (1921-1983)

1.      The Rhetoric of fiction

1.      Jacques Derrida Jacques (1930 –2004)

1.      Deconstrction

26.  Helen Hennessy Vendler (1933)