Syllabus for Assistant Professor in English in Collegiate Education Department

DETAILED SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ENGLISH IN COLLEGIATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (SR FOR ST ONLY )

Total Marks 100

Module 1 – From Early British Literature to the 18th century -20 marks
Module 2 – Romantic and Victorian Period – 10 marks
Module 3 – Twentieth Century British Literature – 10 marks
Module 4 – Indian Writing in English – 10 marks
Module 5 – American Literature – 10 marks
Module 6 – Structure of English Language and Linguistics- 10 marks
Module 7 – English Language Teaching – 5 marks
Module 8 – Literary Criticism – 20 marks
Module 9 – Culture Studies – 5 marks

From Early English Literature to 18th century        Module 1

Detailed study

• John Donne – Batter My Heart, Canonization
• John Milton – Lycidas, Paradise Lost – Book 9
• John Dryden – Macflecknoe
• Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Sonnets No 18, 30, 116
• Alexander Pope –The Rape of the Lock
• Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
• Francis Bacon – Of Studies, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Truth
• Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books
• Robert Burns – A Red, Red Rose
• William Blake – The Tyger, The Lamb

Non Detailed Study

• Beowulf
• Ballads – Sir Patrick Spence, Chevy Chase
• Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy
• Edmund Spencer – Epithalamion
• Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
• Richard Sheridan – The School for Scandal
• Sir Thomas More – Utopia
• Henry Fielding – Tom Jones
• Samuel Richardson – Pamela
• Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

The Romantic and Victorian Period          Module 2

Detailed Study

• William Wordsworth – Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
• Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan
• John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale
• P B Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
• Lord Byron – The Prisoner of Chillon
• Lord Tennyson – Ulysses, Lotos Eaters
• Mathew Arnold – The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach
• Robert Browning – Andrea del Sarto
• G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty
• Thomas de Quincey – On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
• Charles Lamb – Oxford in Vacation, Dream Children
• Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest

Non detailed study

• William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
• Olauda Equiano – The Interesting Narrative (Chapter 4 and 5)
• P.B. Shelley – The Cenci
• Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
• Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
• Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
• Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Ubervilles
• Jane Austen – Persuasion
• Walter Scott – Ivanhoe

Twentieth Century British Literature          Module 3

Detailed Study

• W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
• T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland
• W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B. Yeats
• Dylan Thomas – Poem in October
• Sylvia Plath – Daddy
• Philip Larkin – Church Going
• Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway
• Ted Hughes – Thought Fox
• Thom Gunn – On the Move
• G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion
• T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral
• J.M. Synge – Playboy of the Western World
• Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
• Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
• T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
• Virginia Woolf – Modern Fiction

Non Detailed Study

• F.R. Leavis – The Great Tradition
• Joseph Conrad – The Heart of Darkness
• Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
• James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• George Orwell – 1984
• John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
• Caryll Churchill – Top Girls

Indian Writing in English        Module 4

Detailed Study

• Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1 to 20 from Gitanjali
• Sri Aurobindo – The Trance of Waiting
• Sarojini Naidu – Coromandel Fishers
• Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House, Freaks
• Nissim Ezekiel– Background, Casually
• A.K. Ramanujan – A River, The Striders
• Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
• ManjulaPadmanabhan – Harvest
• Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a Man
• S. N. Dasgupta – The Theory of Rasa
• Kunjunni Raja – Theory of Dhwani

Non detailed Study

• Vijay Tendulkar – The Court is in Session
• Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable
• Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope
• Anita Desai – Clear Light of Day
• R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days
• Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
• Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
• AravindAdiga – The White Tiger
• A.K. Ramanujan – Is there an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay

American Literature       Module 5

Detailed Study

• Walt Whitman – Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
• Emily Dickinson – I felt a funeral
• Robert Frost – Home Burial
• Wallace Stephens – Sunday Morning
• Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
• Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Woman
• Eugene O’Neil – Emperor Jones
• Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

Non detailed Study

• Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance
• Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
• Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
• E E Cummings – Buffalo Bill’s
• Allen Ginsberg – America
• Gertrude Stein – Daughter
• Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
• Herman Melville – Moby Dick
• Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
• Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye

Structure of English Language and Linguistics      Module 6

• Indo European Family of Languages-Old English, Middle English, Modern English
• Phonetics and Phonology-General phonetics-Phonetic transcription- StressIntonation
• Morphology- Traditional Grammar and Modern Grammar- Form class words-Function
• Class Words- Fallacies- Saussure- Structuralism
• Syntax-PS Grammar-TG Grammar-Deep Structure-Surface Structure-Chomsky’s
• Trace Theory- Case Grammar, Systemic, Stratification and Tagmemics
• Semantics- Lexical semantics-Metaphor-Figures of speech
• Linguistics- Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics

English Language Teaching         Module 7

• Key concepts in ELT- ESL- EFL- Mother tongue interference
• Methods of teaching – Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio Visual
• Method, Suggestopaedia, Community Language Learning
• Learning Theories- Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism
• Learner Factors, Teaching Aids, ICT
• Types of tests- Tools for Evaluation- Error Analysis and Remedial Teaching

Literary Criticism         Module 8

• Aristotle – Poetics
• Philip Sydney – An Apology for Poetry
• Samuel Coleridge – BiographiaLiteraria(Chapter 14)
• Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own.
• T. S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
• Northrop Frye – Archetypes of Literature
• Cleanth Brookes- The Language of Paradox
• Edmund Wilson –“Marxism and Literature”.
• Elaine Showalter – “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness”.
• Jacques Derrida- “Differance”.
• Karl Marx- “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof”
• Sigmund Freud – “The Conscious and the Unconscious”; “The Id and The Ego”; “The
• Ego and the Super Ego” Beyond the Pleasure Principles and Other Writings
• JurgenHabermas– “Modernity- An Incomplete Project”
• Raymond Williams– “Tradition, Institution, Formations”
• Stephen Greenblatt – “Shakespeare and the Exorcists”
• Michel Foucault – “Two Lectures” from Power/Knowledge, “The Unities of
• Discourse” from the Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language
• Edward W. Said – “Introduction to Orientalism”.
• HeleneCixous – “The Laugh of the Medusa”
• Eve Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet

Culture Studies          Module 9

• Theodor W. Adorno – “Culture Industry Reconsidered” (pp 98 -107) in Culture
• Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
• Stuart Hall – “Encoding/Decoding” from Culture, Media, Language.
• Laura Mulvey – “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
• Judith Butler – “Subject of Sex/Gender/Desire” from Gender Trouble: Feminism
• and the Subversion of Identity.Angela McRobbie – Postmodernism and Popular Culture.

NOTE: – It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may also appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper.