UGC- NET/JRF
English Literature syllabus

All Questions Came from our Class Lectures and PDF notes that cover entire course.
Section-A
Unit I – Drama
We start drama section with Greek Dramatists, Morality, Miracle Plays, Ourstery Plays to first English play Gorboduc, Shakespeare to G. B. Shaw, including Restoration comedy etc. By the way all questions were from our PDF on the most important 121 English Dramas. T. S. Eliot, Samuel Becket, John Osborne, Harold Pinter etc. all are the part of literary genre called Drama. All categories and types fall in this category like Kitchen Sink Drama, Theatre of Absurd, etc. Just imagine I teach every single line of Shakespeare and other dramatists. Students in a hurry are never selected. Look at the quotations in the exams. Ha Ha Ha Everything is not on the Internet.

Unit II – Poetry
From Bede, ‘Beowulf’ to Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cavaliers, Metaphysical, Pope and Dryden, Pre-Romantics, Romantics, Victorian, Charles Baudelaire, War Poets, Modern Poets, Eliot, Yeats, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Gissing, Derek Walcott, poets from America, Latin America, Africa, India, European Continent etc. all are covered under the Poetry Genre.

 
Unit III (A) Fiction
Romances like ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ by Thomas Malory, Cervantes’s ‘Don Quixote’, Daniel Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens,Thomad Hardy Walter Scott, James Joyce, from ‘The Kite Runner’ (2003) to Kazuo Ishiguro ,all Nobel Prize Winners in this category are taught .Post-independence Indian novels, American novels and the World Classic Novels like _‘Madame Bovary’, ‘Godan’, Dalit Literature – Jhuthan, The Mother of 1084 (Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998)) etc. all are the part of the genre called Fiction. Our classes are famous for detailed description, elaboration and quizzes on all famous fiction.
You know how passages from Oliver Twist were asked in this exam. Our book on fiction satisfies the exam needs of our students all over India.

 
Unit III (B) – Short Story
Our book PDF on all the major short stories is bought even from Americans and Britishers.
Catherine Mansfield, Maupassant, Gogol Poe, Tagore, R. K. Narayan Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Huxley, Fleming, R K Narayan, Faulkner, Anton Chekov, Kazuo Ishiguro, Chimamanda Adichie, Chinua Achebe all have written short stories and we have detailed notes and discussions on this topic to ensure the plot and character go in memory. Our notes on this topic and section are favourite among our students.

 
Unit IV – Non-Fictional Prose

Utopia, Bacon’s ‘Essays’, diary Writers like Samuel Pepys (there was question from Pepys too that we studied) and John Evelyn, Addison, and Steele, Swift, Journals and Periodicals, Seamus Heaney (I discussed his BOG poems and look question from this lecture was also asked) (1975) etc, are the part of Non-Fictional Prose. We go to extra length to cover this section. After all we are creating future Professors of English Literature.

Section-B

Unit V – Language Basic Concepts, Theories and Pedagogy, English in Use
(I discussed at length in three lectures different words that the English language has borrowed from Indian languages and CURRY, MANGOOSE were asked in the exam)
I have already written a book on this topic, so our students feel safe. Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Chomsky, Geoffrey Leech, Langue and Parole (remember two questions were asked on this directly), Speech Act Theory, Skills, Grammar, Parts of Speech, Linguistics, Grammar, Rise of English Language, French and Latin Influence, The Great Vowel Shift, Celtic Language, Medieval English, Modern English, their developments, Direct Method, Eclectic Method, Grammar Translation Method etc. Be ready for more than 10 questions on this topic.

 
Unit VI – English in India, History and Evolution

I start this topic by the discussion and then use our special techniques to teach. 

Lord Macaulay’s Minutes, Kothari’s Three Language Formula, English as Official Language, the largest non-native English speakers of the World, registrar, Chutnification, Indianization of English language, native varieties, Hinglish, Tenglish, Tanglish, Supra-segmental features (stress-intonation-pronunciation etc.), etc. are the part of this unit and only one or couple of questions are asked on this section. Always they ask at least Two -three questions on these topics.

Unit VII – Cultural Studies
(Watch a series of YouTube videos prepared by me on all the writers in CULTURAL STUDIES) – Semiotics, Ethnography, Critical Race theory, Philosophy, theory, film/video studies, Communication Studies – Sender-Message-Receiver, Translators and Translation studies, neo-liberalism etc. are the part of this unit. Don’t underestimate this topic. We always work hard in our classrooms on these topics.

Unit VIII – Literary Criticism
Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Sidney, Pope, Dr. Johnson, Swift, Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’, Coleridge’s ‘Biographia Literaria’, Mathew Arnold, Touch-stone Method, Freud, Modernism, T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, Empson, John Crow Ransom, Intentional and Affective Fallacies etc. – The Critics and Criticism is the part of the Pre II-World War and post II World War.
Our audio and video lectures solve the problems of our online students. But offline students are luckier. No need to say that you all found questions from the lectures as well as MCQs and PDF files. I said that notes are lengthy but don’t compromise with labour.

Unit IX – Literary Criticism Post World War

Formalism, Chicago School, New Aristotelian, New Left, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Reader-Response Theory, Post-Modernism, Historicism, New Historicism, Michel Foucault, Derrida, Barthes, Waves of Feminism, Apocalyptic Criticism, Absurdism and Existentialism, New Marxism, Meta-narrative, Colonialism and Post-colonialism, Imperialism, Orientalism, Eco-criticism, Post 9/11 World, ‘The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond’ by Alan Kirby (2006), Akker’s ‘meta modernism’ , Sokal Effect are the part of this unit. I as an EXPERT teach these topics at least twice in our classes both offline and online. I always ensure selection-based studies plus knowledge. Our book on these topics solves the need of our students.

 
Unit X – Research Methods and Material in English
MLA Style Sheet. API, Plagiarism, Basic Research, Applied Research, Action Research, Scientific Research, Survey Method, Experimental Method, Descriptive Method, Inductive-Deductive Method, Hypothesis, Bibliography and citing, Plagiarism, Different kinds of test, Questionnaires, Observation and Case studies etc. All questions came from our classroom lectures when this topic was first introduced in the NET syllabus.