For the post of Written Recruitment Test for the post of Postgraduate Assistants in Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service.
Syllabus: English (Subject Code: P02) Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600) Poetry For Detailed Study Chaucer : Spenser : For Non-detailed Study Spenser : Wyatt, Surrey: Ballads :
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Faerie Queene - Book-I
Prothalamion and Epithalamion Selections in Peacock's English verse, Vol-I Peacock - Vol-II
Prose For Detailed Study Bacon - Essays Sidney
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For Non-detailed Study The Bible : Drama For Detailed Study Marlowe :
Of Truth, Of Adversity, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Ambition, Of Friendship Apologie For Poetrie
The Book of Job.
Dr. Faustus
For Non-Detailed Study Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy Ben Jonson : The Alchemist
Unit-II - MODERN LITERATURE (1600-1798) Poetry For Detailed Donne Milton Pope
study : : :
Canonisation, The Ecstasie Paradise Lost, Book-IX The Rape of the Lock.
For Non-detailed Study Milton : Gray, Collins & Blake: Herbert : Marvell :
Samson Agonistes Peacock's English Verse - Vol-III 1. Affliction 2. The Pulley To His Coy Mistress
For Detailed Study Johnson :
Life of Milton
Prose
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For Non-Detailed Study Bunyan : Fielding : Drama For Detailed Study Dryden : Sheridan :
The Pilgrim's Progress Tom Jones
All for Love The School for Scandal
For Non-detailed Study : Congreve : The way of the World Goldsmith : She stoops to conquer
Unit-III - MODERN LITERATURE (1798 - 1832) Poetry For Detailed Wordsworth Coleridge Keats Shelley
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For Non-Detailed Study Wordsworth : Shelley :
Immortality Ode, Tintern Abbey Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn. Ode to the West Wind
Prelude - Book-I Adonais
Prose For Detailed Study Lamb :
Hazlitt
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For Non-Detailed Study Shelley : Wordsworth : Jane Austen : Emily Bronte:
Essays of Elia Christ's Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream children, New Year's Eve My First Acquaintance with Poets.
A Defence of Poetry Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1850) Emma Wuthering Heights
Unit-IV - MODERN LITERATURE (1832 to the present day) Poetry For Detailed Arnold Browning Tennyson W.B.Yeats Eliot
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Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy Andrea Del Sarto Morte D' Arthur Byzantium The Waste land
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For Non-Detailed Study: Hopkins : The Wreck of the Deutschland The selections from (i) Owen (ii) W.H.Auden (iii) Stephen Spender in the Faber Book of Modern Verse. Prose For Detailed Study: Carlyle :
The Hero as a Man of Letters (from “On Heroes and Hero Worship”) The Study of Poetry Tradition and Individual Talent
Mathew Arnold: T.S.Eliot :
For Non-detailed Study: Dickens : Great Expectations George Elliot : Middle March Hardy : Jude the Obscure Virginia Woolf : To the Light House Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory Unit-V - SHAKESPEARE Drama For Detailed Study Macbeth, The Tempest For Non-Detailed Study Henry–IV Part-I: Antony and Cleopatra
Measure for Measure
A general knowledge of the other plays, poems and sonnets of Shakespeare is expected of the candidates.
Unit-VI AMERICAN LITERATURE Poetry Detailed study Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Sylvia Plath
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Non-Detailed Study Walt Whitman : E.E.Cummings : Hart Crane : Fiction Mark Twain : Melville : Hemingway :
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Because I could not Stop for Death Mending Wall, Birches, West Running Brook. Daddy
Passage to India The Cambridge Ladies Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Moby Dick The Old Man and the Sea
Prose Detailed study Emerson
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The American Scholar
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Faulkner
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Non-Detailed Study Thoreau : James Thurcer : Drama Detailed study Eugene O’ Neil : Arthur Miller : Non-Detailed Study Tennesse Williams : Edward Albee :
Unit-VII
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Walden The Owl in the Attic
The Hairy Ape The Death of a Salesman A Street Car named Desire Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Poetry Detailed Study: Tagore : Aurobindo :
Gitanjali Thought the Paraclete
Non-Detailed Study: Poems of Sarojini Naidu and Toru Dutt from the Golden Treasury of Indian Poetry. Poems of A.K.Ramanujam, R. Parthasarathy, Kamala Das and Nissim Ezekiel from “Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets” ed. R.Parthasarathy. Fiction Mulk Raj Anand : Raja Rao : R.K. Narayan : Kamala Markandaya:
Coolie Kantapura The English Teacher A Handful of Rice.
Prose Detailed Study: Ananda Commarasamy Aurobindo:The Dance of Shiva (The Title Essay) Non-Detailed Study: Nehru : Drama Detailed Study: Tagore Girish Karnad
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Non-Detailed Study: Gurucharan Das :
Commonwealth Literature Poetry Non-Detailed Study:
An Autobiography
Muktha Dhara Tughlaq
Larine Sahib
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E.J. Pratt Judith Wright Wole Soyinka Abioseh Nicoll A.D.Hope Drama Detailed Study Wole Soyinka
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The Dying Eagle Fire in the Murdering Hut, The Cedars The Telephone conversation The Meaning of Africa Australia
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The Lion and the Jewel
Non–Detailed Study Douglas Stewart :
Ned Kelly
Prose Chinua Achebe
: The Novelist as Teacher
Fiction Chinua Achebe Alan Paten
: Things Fall Apart : Cry, the Beloved Country
Unit-VIII -- APPROACHES TO LITERATURE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Modern Drama Modern Fiction Literary Movements Literary Criticism and Theory Feminism Teaching of English in India Journalism and Creative Writing in English Post – Modernism
Unit-IX – HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Origin of Language Place of English in the Indo-European family General Characteristics of Old and Middle English The rise and growth of Modern English Growth of Vocabulary Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Scandinavian and other foreign influences – Word Formation. 6. Change of Meaning 7. The Makers of English, The Bible, Spenserm, Shakespeare, Milton and Dr.Johnson. 8. American English 9. Indian English 10.Characteristics of Modern English 11.Spelling Reform 12.The English Lexicon Books for reference: 1) Henry Bradley: 2) F.T.Wood : 3) A.C.Baugh :
The Making of English An outline History of the English Language A History of the English Language
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LINGUISTICS Definitions – The Nature and Scope of linguistics, Speech and Writing, Form and Meaning Words, Clause and Phrase – Concord Government– Sentence Pattern Phonology Morphology Idiolect, Dialect Transformational Generative Grammar Books for Study Frank Plalee John Lyons
: Grammar, ELBS : An introduction to Theoretical linguistics
Unit-X PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM 1. Aristotle 2. Dryden 3. Coleridge 4. Keats 5. T.S.Elliot 6. I.A.Richards 7. William Empson 8. Northrop Frye 9. L.Trilling 10. Brooks 11. Allen Tate
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Poetics Essay of Dramatic Poesy Biographia Literaria Ch.XIV and Ch.XVII Letters (from English Critical Tradition-Macmillan) Metaphysical poets Four kinds of Meaning The Seventh Type of Ambiguity The Archetypes of Literature Sense of the Past Irony as a Principle of Structure Tension in Poetry
