ENGLISH - An outline of the course content - UNIT-I to UNIT-VIII

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U.P. Higher Education Services Commission, Prayagraj presents an English syllabus outlining eight units covering literature across major historical periods and their social contexts. The course maps British drama, British prose and fiction, British poetry, and literary theory and criticism, then extends to American literature and Indian literature in English. Major authors and representative works are listed under each unit, enabling structured study and revision by topic and text.

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UNIT-I : Literature and Society

Renaissance - Post-Modern Period

UNIT-II : British Drama

Major playwrights and key works

UNIT-III : British Prose and Fiction

Essays, essays and novels by listed authors

UNIT-IV : British Poetry

Poetry and major poets

UNIT-V : Literary Theory and Criticism

Core texts and critical approaches

UNIT-VI : Literary Theory and Literary Criticism

Schools: Structuralism to Technological Criticism

UNIT-VII : American Literature

Key American writers and works

UNIT-VIII : Indian Literature in English

Selected Indian writers and works

U. P. HIGHER EDUCATION SERVICES COMMISSION, PRAYAGRAJ Syllabus ENGLISH (Subject Code-10) An outline of the course content UNIT-I : Literature and Society in the following periods (a) Renaissance (b) Reformation (c) Restoration (d) Neo-classical Period (e) Romantic Period (f) Victorion Period (g) Modern Period (h) Post-Modern Period UNIT-II : British Drama C. Marlowe : Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta Ben Jonson : Everyman in His Humour W. Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, The Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Tempest, King Henry IV, Part I & II John Dryden : All For Love W. Congreve : The Way of the World John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi John Galsworthy : Strife, Escape George Bernard Shaw : Candida, Saint Joan, Man and Superman John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral Sammuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot John Osborme : Look Back in Anger Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party Arnold Wesker : Roots UNIT-III : British Prose and Fiction Francis Bacon : ‘Of Truth’, ‘Of Revenge’, ‘Of Studies’, ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’, ‘Of Regimen of Health’ John Milton : ‘Areopagitica’ Addison and Steele : Essays dealing with Coverly Papers from ‘The Spectator’. Charles Lamb : ‘The South Sea House’, ‘Dream Children’, ‘Christ Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago’, ‘The Convalescent’, ‘Poor Relations’, ‘Imperfect Sympathies’ Thomas Carlyle : ‘The Hero as a Poet’ William Hazlitt : ‘Public Opinion’, ‘On Reading Old Books’, ‘On Reading New Books’ T.B. Macaulay : ‘Minutes on Education’ (1835) Virginia Woolf : ‘A Room of One’s Own’ George Orwell : ‘Politics and the English Language’ Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens : Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities George Eliot : Middle March Thomas Hardy : Tess ofthe D’Urbervilles D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory William Golding : Lord ofthe Flies Iris Murdoch : The Sea U.P. Higher Education Services Commission, Prayagraj/mohd.raj/Syllabus/ENGLISH 1 UNIT-IV : British Poetry G. Chaucer : ‘The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’ E. Spenser : ‘The Faerie Queene Book I’ John Donne : ‘The Canonization’, ‘The Flea’, ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’, ‘Goe and Catche a Falling Starre’, ‘A Hymme to God the Father’ J. Milton : ‘Paradise Lost’, Book I & II J. Dryden : ‘Absalom & Achitophel’ A. Pope : ‘The Rape of the Lock’William Blake : ‘London’ Thomas Gray : ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ William Wordsworth : ‘The Prelude’ Book I, ‘Tintern Abbey’ S.T. Coleridge : ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’ P.B. Shelley : ‘Ode to the West Wind’, ‘Adonais’, ‘England in 1819’ John Keats : ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘Ode to Autumn’ A. Tennyson : ‘Lady of Shallot’, ‘Ulysses’, ‘The Princess’, ‘The Lotos Eaters’ Robert Browning : ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’, ‘Prospice’, ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’, ‘The Last Ride Together’, ‘My Lat Duchess’ Matthew Arnold : ‘The Scholar Gypsy’, ‘Thyrsis’, ‘Dover Beach’ W.B. Yeats : ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’, ‘Among School Children’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Lapis Lazuli’, ‘Byzantium’ T.S. Eliot : ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Burnt Norton’ W.H. Auden : ‘Petition’, ‘In Memory ofW.B. Yeats’, ‘Consider’,‘The Shield of Achilles’,‘Partition’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’ Philip Larkin : ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, ‘Ambulances’, ‘Church Going’ Ted Hughes : ‘The Crow’, ‘Hawk Roosting’, ‘The Thought Fox’ UNIT-V : Literary Theory and Criticism Aristotle : ‘Poetics’ Longinus : ‘On the Sublime’ J. Dryden : ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’Dr Johnson : ‘Preface to Shakespeare’ W. Wordsworth : ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ S.T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chaps XIII, XIV, XVIII) Matthew Arnold : ‘Study of Poetry’, ‘Shelley’, ‘Wordsworth’, ‘Culture and Anarchy’

FAQs

What periods are covered in UNIT-I under Literature and Society?

UNIT-I covers Renaissance, Reformation, Restoration, Neo-classical, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post-Modern periods.

Which major authors and plays are listed in UNIT-II?

UNIT-II lists authors such as Marlowe (Doctor Faustus), Ben Jonson, W. Shakespeare (multiple plays), John Dryden, Congreve, Webster, Galsworthy, Shaw, Synge, T.S. Eliot, Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, and Wesker, along with specific work titles.

What topics are included in UNIT-VI?

UNIT-VI includes literary theory and criticism schools such as Structuralism, Deconstruction, Historicism, New Historicism, Feminism, Post-Colonialism, Cultural Theory, Russian Formalism, New Criticism, Psycho-analytical Criticism, Marxism, Reader-Response Theory, Technological Criticism, and Indian Poetics (Rasa, Dhvani Schools).

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