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NET/JRF English Literature Syllabus

The document provides a syllabus for NET/JRF English Literature. It is divided into 13 modules covering topics such as British Literature, American Literature, Postcolonial Literature, and Literary Criticism. The British Literature section provides 12 chapters covering different historical periods from Old English to Modern Age. Each chapter includes lessons on important authors, poets, dramatists, and literary works from the given period. Similarly, the American Literature section includes 2 chapters on Early American Literature and American writers from the Romantic period. The syllabus aims to comprehensively cover major topics, authors and literary movements in British and American literature.

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NET/JRF English Literature Syllabus

The document provides a syllabus for NET/JRF English Literature. It is divided into 13 modules covering topics such as British Literature, American Literature, Postcolonial Literature, and Literary Criticism. The British Literature section provides 12 chapters covering different historical periods from Old English to Modern Age. Each chapter includes lessons on important authors, poets, dramatists, and literary works from the given period. Similarly, the American Literature section includes 2 chapters on Early American Literature and American writers from the Romantic period. The syllabus aims to comprehensively cover major topics, authors and literary movements in British and American literature.

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  • British Literature
  • American Literature
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • European Literature
  • Indian Literature
  • Literary Criticism
  • Literary Theory
  • Literary Terms & Devices
  • Literary Movements
  • Language & Pedagogy
  • English in India
  • Cultural Studies
  • Research Methodology

NET/JRF

ENGLISH
LITERATURE
SYLLABUS

CONTENTS
Module 1-British Literature 03
Module 2- American Literature 13
Module 3- Postcolonial Literature 16
Module 4- European Literature 18
Module 5- Indian Literature 21
Module 6- Literary Criticism 23
Module 7- Literary Theory 25
Module 8- Literary Terms & Devices 29
Module 9- Literary Movements 33
Module 10- Language & Pedagogy 35
Module 11- English in India 36
Module 12- Cultural Studies 37
Module 13- Research Methodology 38
BRITISH LITERATURE
Chapter 1- Old & Middle English (500 TO 1300 AD)
Lesson 1- Introduction to Anglo Saxon Period: Historic Background, Theme, Style
Lesson 2- Important Works of Anglo Saxon Period
Lesson 3- Introduction to Anglo Norman Literature- Historic Background, Theme, Style
Lesson 4- Important Works of Anglo Norman Period

Chapter 2- Age Of Chaucer (1300 TO 1400 AD)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Chaucerian Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style
Lesson 2- Geoffrey Chaucer
Lesson 3- William Langland
Lesson 4- John Wycliffe
Lesson 5- John Mandeville
Lesson 6- John Gower
Lesson 7- Thomas Hoccleave
Lesson 8- John Lydgate

Chapter 3- Age of Revival (1400 to 1550 AD)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Age of Revival- Historic Background, Theme, Style
Lesson 2- Erasmus
Lesson 3- Thomas More
Lesson 4- William Tyndale
Lesson 5- Richard Tottel
Lesson 6- Thomas Wyatt
Lesson 7- Henry Howard
Lesson 8- Roger Ascham
Lesson 9- Thomas Elyot
Lesson 10- Thomas Malory
Lesson 11- William Dunbar

Chapter 4- Elizabethan Age (1550 to 1600 AD)


3|Page
Lesson 1- Introduction to Elizabethan Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style
Lesson 2- Popular Bible Translations

POETS
Lesson 3- Edmund Spenser
Lesson 4- Thomas Sackville
Lesson 5- Philip Sidney
Lesson 6- Michael Drayton

DRAMATIST
Lesson 7- History & Background of English Theatre
Lesson 8- Early Elizabethan Plays
Lesson 9- Christopher Marlowe
Lesson 10- Robert Greene
Lesson 11- Thomas Nashe
Lesson 12- John Lyly
Lesson 13- Thomas Lodge
Lesson 14- George Peele
Lesson 15- Thomas Kyd
Lesson 16- William Shakespeare

ESSAYIST
Lesson 17- Francis Bacon
Lesson 18- Richard Hooker
Lesson 19- Walter Raleigh
Lesson 20- Richard Hakluyt
Lesson 21- Samuel Purchas
Lesson 22- John Foxe
Lesson 23- William Camden
Lesson 24- John Knox

Chapter 5- Jacobean & Caroline Age (1600 to 1640)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Jacobean & Caroline Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style

DRAMATIST

4|Page
Lesson 2- Ben Jonson
Lesson 3- George Chapman
Lesson 4- Beaumont & Fletcher
Lesson 5- John Webster
Lesson 6- Thomas Middleton
Lesson 7- Thomas Heywood
Lesson 8- Thomas Dekker
Lesson 9- Philip Massinger
Lesson 10- John Ford
Lesson 11- James Shirley
Lesson 12- John Marston
POETS
Lesson 13- John Donne
Lesson 14- Richard Crashaw
Lesson 15- Henry Vaughan
Lesson 16- George Herbert
Lesson 17- Andrew Marvell
Lesson 18- Abraham Cowley
Lesson 19- Thomas Carew
Lesson 20- John Suckling
Lesson 21- Richard Lovelace
Lesson 22- Robert Herrick

Chapter 6- Civil War & Interregnum (1640 to 1660)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Civil War & Interregnum Period- History & Background
Lesson 2- John Milton
Lesson 3- John Bunyan
Lesson 4- Robert Burton
Lesson 5- Thomas Browne
Lesson 6- Jeremy Taylor
Lesson 7- Richard Baxter
Lesson 8- Izaak Walton
Lesson 9- Thomas Fuller

5|Page
Chapter 7- Restoration Age (1660 to 1700 AD)
Lesson 1- Introduction to Restoration Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style

PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 2- John Dryden
Lesson 3- Samuel Butler
Lesson 4- John Evelyn
Lesson 5- Samuel Pepys
Lesson 6- Jeremy Collier
Lesson 7- William Dampier
Lesson 8- John Wilmot
Lesson 9- Thomas Rymer

DRAMATIST
Lesson 10- George Etherage
Lesson 11- William Wycherley
Lesson 12- George Farquhar
Lesson 13- John Vanbrugh
Lesson 14- Colley Cibber
Lesson 15- Thomas Otway
Lesson 16- William Congreve
Lesson 17- Aphra Behn
Lesson 18- John Gay

Chapter 8- Enlightenment Age (1700 to 1800 AD)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Age of Enlightenment- Historic Background, Theme, Style

PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 2- Alexander Pope
Lesson 3- Jonathan Swift
Lesson 4- Richard Steele
Lesson 5- Joseph Addison
Lesson 6- Samuel Johnson

NOVELIST

6|Page
Lesson 7- Daniel Defoe
Lesson 8- Henry Fieldings
Lesson 9- Samuel Richardson
Lesson 10- Tobias Smolett
Lesson 11- Laurence Sterne
Lesson 12- Charlotte Lennox

POETS
Lesson 13- Thomas Gray
Lesson 14- Oliver Goldsmith
Lesson 15- William Cowper
Lesson 16- Robert Burns
Lesson 17- William Blake
Lesson 18- James Thomson
Lesson 19- William Collins
Lesson 20- George Crabbe
Lesson 21- James Macpherson
Lesson 22- Thomas Chatterton
Lesson 23- Thomas Percy
Lesson 24- John Stagg

Chapter 9- Romantic Age (1800 to 1850 AD)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Romantic Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style

POETS
Lesson 2- William Wordsworth
Lesson 3- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lesson 4- Robert Southey
Lesson 5- Lord Byron
Lesson 6- P.B Shelley
Lesson 7- John Keats
Lesson 8- John Clare

PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 9- William Hazlitt

7|Page
Lesson 10- Leigh Hunt
Lesson 11- Charles Lamb
Lesson 12- Thomas De Quincey

NOVELIST
Lesson 13- Walter Scott
Lesson 14- Jane Austen
Lesson 15- Walter Savage Landor
Lesson 16- Mary Shelley
Lesson 17- Anne Radcliff
Lesson 18- Horace Walpone
Lesson 19- Fanny Burney
Lesson 20- William Godwin
Lesson 21- Richard Sheridan

Chapter 10- Victorian Age (1850 to 1900 AD)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Victorian Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style

POETS
Lesson 2- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lesson 3- Robert Browning
Lesson 4- Elizabeth Barret Browning
Lesson 5- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lesson 6- Christina Rossetti
Lesson 7- William Morris
Lesson 8- A.C Swinburne
Lesson 9- G.M Hopkins
Lesson 10- Edward Fitzgerald

NOVELIST
Lesson 11- Charles Dickens
Lesson 12- William Makepeace Thackrey
Lesson 13- George Eliot
Lesson 14- Charles Reade
Lesson 15- Anthony Trollope

8|Page
Lesson 16- Charlotte Bronte
Lesson 17- Emily Bronte
Lesson 18- Anne Bronte
Lesson 19- Bulwer Lyton
Lesson 20- Charles Kingsley
Lesson 21- Elizabeth Gaskell
Lesson 22- R.D Blackmore
Lesson 23- George Meredith
Lesson 24- Thomas Hardy
Lesson 25- R.L Stevenson
Lesson 26- Lewis Carroll
Lesson 27- William Wilkie Collins
Lesson 28- Arthur Conan Doyle

ESSAYIST
Lesson 29- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lesson 30- Thomas Carlyle
Lesson 31- John Ruskin
Lesson 32- Matthew Arnold
Lesson 33- J.H Newman
Lesson 34- Walter Pater
Lesson 35- Oscar Wilde

Chapter 11- Modern Age (1900 to 1950 AD)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Modern Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style

NOVELIST
Lesson 2- Joseph Conrad
Lesson 3- George Orwell
Lesson 4- James Joyce
Lesson 5- Virginia Woolf
Lesson 6- D.H Lawrence
Lesson 7- Aldous Huxley
Lesson 8- Graham Greene

9|Page
Lesson 9- E.M Foster
Lesson 10- Ford Madox Ford
Lesson 11- Arnold Bennett
Lesson 12- H.G Wells
Lesson 13- J.M Barrie
Lesson 14- Rudyard Kipling
Lesson 15- Samuel Butler

DRAMATIST
Lesson 16- John Galsworthy
Lesson 17- G.B Shaw
Lesson 18- T.S Eliot
Lesson 19- Sean O Casey
Lesson 20- J.M Synge

POETS
Lesson 21- W.H Auden
Lesson 22- W.B Yeats
Lesson 23- Siegfried Sassoon
Lesson 24- Wilfred Owen
Lesson 25- Rupert Brooke
Lesson 26- Robert Graves
Lesson 27- Dylan Thomas
Lesson 28- John Masefield
Lesson 29- Alfred Noyes
Lesson 30- A.E Housman

Chapter 12- Post Modern Age (1950 to 2000 AD)


Lesson 1- Introduction to Post Modern Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style

NOVELIST
Lesson 2- Agatha Christie
Lesson 3- Jeanette Winterson
Lesson 4- J.R.R Tolkien
Lesson 5- Bram Stoker

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Lesson 6- Christopher Isherwood
Lesson 7- Bertrand Russell
Lesson 8- J.M Priestley
Lesson 9- Somerset Maugham
Lesson 10- Doris Lessing
Lesson 11- J.K Rowling
Lesson 12- William Goldings
Lesson 13- Ian McEwan
Lesson 14- Lawrence Durrell
Lesson 15- Graham Swift
Lesson 16- Martin Amis
Lesson 17- Kingsley Amis
Lesson 18- Iris Murdoch
Lesson 19- John Fowles
Lesson 20- Muriel Spark
Lesson 21- A.S Byatt
Lesson 22- Malcolm Bradbury
Lesson 23- Angela Carter
Lesson 24- Patrick Kavanagh
Lesson 25- J.P Donleavey
Lesson 26- Anthony Powell
Lesson 27- David Storey
Lesson 28- Joyce Cary
Lesson 29- Angus Wilson
Lesson 30- Anthony Burgess
Lesson 31- Peter Ackroyd

DRAMATIST
Lesson 32- Alan Bennett
Lesson 33- Noel Coward
Lesson 34- Christopher Fry
Lesson 35- Harold Pinter
Lesson 36- Samuel Beckett
Lesson 37- Edward Bond

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Lesson 38- Tom Stoppard
Lesson 39- Terence Rattigan
Lesson 40- Arnold Wesker
Lesson 41- John Osborne
Lesson 42- Caryl Churchill
Lesson 43- Joe Orton

POETS
Lesson 44- Seamus Heaney
Lesson 45- Ted Hughes
Lesson 46- Philip Larkin
Lesson 47- Roy Fuller
Lesson 48- Thom Gunn
Lesson 49- J.H Prynne
Lesson 50- Geoffrey Hill

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AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chapter 13- Early American Literature
Lesson 1- Introduction to Early American Literature
Lesson 2- Founders of America

Chapter 14- American Writers of Romantics Age


Lesson 1- Fredrick Douglass
Lesson 2- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lesson 3- Herman Melville
Lesson 4- James Cooper
Lesson 5- Louisa May Alcott
Lesson 6- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lesson 7- Edgar Allen Poe
Lesson 8- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lesson 9- Henry David Thoreau
Lesson 10- Washington Erving
Lesson 11- Emily Dickinson
Lesson 12- Walt Whitman
Lesson 13- William Cullen Bryant

Chapter 15- American Writers of Victorian Age


Lesson 1- Henry James
Lesson 2- Mark Twain
Lesson 3- Jack London
Lesson 4- Stephen Crane
Lesson 5- Charlotte Gilman Perkins
Lesson 6- Theodore Dreiser
Lesson 7- Kate Chopin
Lesson 8- Edith Wharton

Chapter 16- American Writers of Modern Age

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Lesson 1- William Faulkner
Lesson 2- Ernest Hemingway
Lesson 3- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lesson 4- Gertrude Stein
Lesson 5- Sinclair Lewis
Lesson 6- Tennessee Williams
Lesson 7- Arthur Miller
Lesson 8- Eugene O Neill
Lesson 9- Susan Glaspell
Lesson 10- Robert Frost
Lesson 11- Wallace Stevens
Lesson 12- Ezra Pound
Lesson 13- H.D
Lesson 14- William Carlos William
Lesson 15- E.E Cummings

Chapter 17- American Writers of Post Modern Age


Lesson 1- John Updike
Lesson 2- Harper Lee
Lesson 3- Truman Capote
Lesson 4- J.D Salinger
Lesson 5- John O Hara
Lesson 6- John Steinbeck
Lesson 7- Joseph Heller
Lesson 8- William S Burroughs
Lesson 9- Jack Kerouac
Lesson 10- Edward Albee
Lesson 11- Saul Bellow
Lesson 12- Ray Bradbury
Lesson 13- Allen Ginsberg
Lesson 14- Anne Sexton
Lesson 15- Sylvia Plath
Lesson 16- Robert Lowell

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Lesson 17- Elizabeth Bishop

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POST COLONIAL LITERATURE
Chapter 18- African American Writers
Lesson 1- Tony Morrison
Lesson 2- Zora Neale Hurston
Lesson 3- Alice Walker
Lesson 4- Richard Wright
Lesson 5- Ralph Ellison
Lesson 6- James Baldwin
Lesson 7- Amiri Baraka
Lesson 8- Solomon Northrop
Lesson 9- Langston Hughes
Lesson 10- Maya Angelou

Chapter 19- Writers of British Diaspora


Lesson 1- Jean Rhys
Lesson 2- Kazuo Ishiguru
Lesson 3- Hanif Kureshi
Lesson 4- Timothy Mo
Lesson 5- Caryl Phillips
Lesson 6- Salman Rushdie
Lesson 7- V.S Naipaul
Lesson 8- Sam Selvon

Chapter 20- African Writers


Lesson 1- Chimananda Ngozi Adiche
Lesson 2- Chinua Achibe
Lesson 3- Nadine Gordimer
Lesson 4- J.M Coetzee
Lesson 5- Wole Soyinka
Lesson 6- Ama Ata Aidoo
Lesson 7- Buchi Emecheta

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Lesson 8- Bessie Head
Lesson 9- Ngugi Wa Thiong`O
Lesson 10- Ben Okri
Lesson 11- Nuruddin Farah

Chapter 21- Canadian Writers


Lesson 1- Michael Ondaatje
Lesson 2- Margaret Atwood
Lesson 3- Yann Martel
Lesson 4- Alice Munro
Lesson 5- Lawrence Hill
Lesson 6- Rohinton Mistry
Lesson 7- Margaret Lawrence
Lesson 8- Gabrielle Roy
Lesson 9- Shyam Selvadurai
Lesson 10- Maria Campbell
Lesson 11- Sinclair Ross
Lesson 12- Thomas King

Chapter 22- Australian Writers


Lesson 1- A.D Hope
Lesson 2- David Malouf
Lesson 3- Patrick White
Lesson 4- Peter Carey
Lesson 5- Judith Wright

Chapter 23- Caribbean & Colombian Writers


Lesson 1- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lesson 2- Derek Walcott
Lesson 3- Jamaica Kincaid
Lesson 4- Edward Brathwaite

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EUROPEAN LITERATURE
Chapter 24- Classical Greek Literature
Lesson 1- Greek Gods & Other Mythical Characters
Lesson 2- History of Greek Civilization
Lesson 3- Greek Theatre
Lesson 4- Homer
Lesson 5- Aeschylus
Lesson 6- Sophocles
Lesson 7- Euripides
Lesson 8- Aristophanes
Lesson 9- Aesop
Lesson 10- Pindar

Chapter 25- Classical Roman Literature


Lesson 1- History of Rome
Lesson 2- Old Testament (History of Christianity)
Lesson 3- New Testament (History of Christianity)
Lesson 4- Cicero
Lesson 5- Virgil
Lesson 6- Ovid
Lesson 7- Seneca

Chapter 26- Italian Literature


Lesson 1- Dante Alighieri
Lesson 2- Petrarch
Lesson 3- Giovanni Boccaccio
Lesson 4- Thomas Aquinas
Lesson 5- Niccolo Machiavelli
Lesson 6- Luigi Pirandello
Lesson 7- Italo Calvino
Lesson 8- Umberto Eco

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Chapter 27- Russian Literature
Lesson 1- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lesson 2- Leo Tolstoy
Lesson 3- Alexander Pushkin
Lesson 4- Anton Chekhov
Lesson 5- Boris Pasternak
Lesson 6- Ivan Turgenev
Lesson 7- Mikhail Bulgakov
Lesson 8- Vladimir Nabakov
Lesson 9- Ivan Bunin
Lesson 10- Maxim Gorky

Chapter 28- German Literature


Lesson 1- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Lesson 2- Bertolt Brecht
Lesson 3- Thomas Mann
Lesson 4- Franz Kafka
Lesson 5- Herman Hesse
Lesson 6- Gunter Grass

Chapter 29- French Literature


Lesson 1- Montaigne
Lesson 2- Moliere
Lesson 3- Voltaire
Lesson 4- Eugene Ionesco
Lesson 5- Gustave Flaubert
Lesson 6- Honare De Balzac
Lesson 7- Emile Zola
Lesson 8- Albert Camus
Lesson 9- Marcel Proust
Lesson 10- Charles Baudelaire
Lesson 11- Guy De Maupassant
Lesson 12- Jean Paul Satre

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Lesson 13- Milan Kundera
Lesson 14- Jean Genet
Lesson 15- Alexander Dumas

Chapter 30- Other European Literature


Lesson 1- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Lesson 2- Miguel De Cervantes
Lesson 3- August Strindberg
Lesson 4- Henrik Ibsen

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INDIAN LITERATURE
Chapter 32- Indian English Novelist
Lesson 1- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Lesson 2- Mulk Raj Anand
Lesson 3- R.K Narayan
Lesson 4- Raja Rao
Lesson 5- Kamala Markandaya
Lesson 6- Manohar Malgaonkar
Lesson 7- Khushwant Singh
Lesson 8- Bharti Mukharjee
Lesson 9- Nirad C. Chaudhari
Lesson 10- Ruskin Bond
Lesson 11- Shashi Deshpande
Lesson 12- G.V Desani
Lesson 13- U. R. Ananthamurthy
Lesson 14- Anita Desai
Lesson 15- Kiran Desai
Lesson 16- Arun Joshi
Lesson 17- Arundhati Roy
Lesson 18- Nayantara Sahgal
Lesson 19- Jhumpa Lahiri
Lesson 20- Amitav Ghosh

Chapter 33- Indian English Poets


Lesson 1- Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Lesson 2- Toru Dutt
Lesson 3- Sri Aurobindo
Lesson 4- Sarojini Naidu
Lesson 5- Rabindranath Tagore
Lesson 6- Kamala Das
Lesson 7- A.K Ramanujan
Lesson 8- A.K Melhotra

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Lesson 9- Nissim Ezekiel
Lesson 10- Gopi Kattoor
Lesson 11- Agha Shahid Ali
Lesson 12- Arun Kolatkar
Lesson 13- Gieve Patel
Lesson 14- Keki Daruwalla
Lesson 15- Meena Alexander
Lesson 16- Jayant Mahapatra
Lesson 17- Mahashweta Devi
Lesson 18- Vikram Seth
Lesson 19- [Link]
Lesson 20- R. Parthasarathy

Chapter 34- Indian Aesthetics


Lesson 1- Introduction to Indian Aesthetics
Lesson 2- Rasa School (Bharat Muni)
Lesson 3- Alamkara School (Bhamaha)
Lesson 4- Guna Dosa School (Dandin)
Lesson 5- Riti School (Vamana)
Lesson 6- Dhwani School (Anandvardhana)
Lesson 7- Vakroti School (Kuntaka)
Lesson 8- Aucitya School (Ksemendra)

Chapter 35- Indian Dramatist


Lesson 1- Mahesh Dattani
Lesson 2- Girish Karnad
Lesson 3- Badal Sarkar
Lesson 4- Vijay Tendulkar

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LITERARY CRITICISM
Chapter 36- Greek Critics
Lesson 1- Socrates
Lesson 2- Plato
Lesson 3- Aristotle

Chapter 37- Roman Critics


Lesson 1- Horace
Lesson 2- Longinus
Lesson 3- Quintilian

Chapter 38- Middle Age Critics


Lesson 1- Philip Sidney

Chapter 39- Enlightenment Age Critics


Lesson 1- John Dryden
Lesson 2- Alexander Pope
Lesson 3- Samuel Johnson

THINKERS
Lesson 4- Thomas Hobbes
Lesson 5- John Locke
Lesson 6- Giambattista Vico
Lesson 7- Edmund Burke
Lesson 8- Edward Gibbon
Lesson 9- Adam Smith

Chapter 40- Romantic Age Critics


Lesson 1- William Wordsworth
Lesson 2- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lesson 3- John Keats

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Chapter 41- Victorian Age Critics
Lesson 1- George Eliot
Lesson 2- Friedrich Nietsche
Lesson 3- G.M Hopkins
Lesson 4- Henry James
Lesson 5- Matthew Arnold
Lesson 6- T.S Eliot

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LITERARY THEORY
Chapter 42- New Criticism
Lesson 1- Understanding Literary Theory
Lesson 2- What is New Criticism?
Lesson 3- William Empson
Lesson 4- I.A Richards
Lesson 5- Cleanth Brooks
Lesson 6- F.R Leavis
Lesson 7- Wimsatt & Beardsley
Lesson 8- R.P Blackmur
Lesson 9- Allen Tate
Lesson 10- John Crowe Ransom
Lesson 11- Neo Aristotelian

Chapter 43- Formalism


Lesson 1- What is Formalism?
Lesson 2- Victor Shklovsky
Lesson 3- Boris Echenbaum
Lesson 4- Yuri Tynyanov
Lesson 5- Roman Jacobson

Chapter 44- Structuralism


Lesson 1- What is Structuralism ?
Lesson 2- Ferdinand De Saussure
Lesson 3- C.S Peire
Lesson 4- Claude Levi Strass
Lesson 5- Vladimir Propp
Lesson 6- A.J Greimas
Lesson 7- Gerard Genette
Lesson 8- Mikhail Bhakin
Lesson 9- Roland Barthes

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Chapter 45- Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism
Lesson 1- What is Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism?
Lesson 2- Michael Foucault
Lesson 3- Jacques Derrida
Lesson 4- Paul De Mann
Lesson 5- J.H Miller

Chapter 46- Post Modernism


Lesson 1- What is Post Modernism?
Lesson 2- Jean Baudrillard
Lesson 3- Julia Kristeva
Lesson 4- Jean Francois Lyotard
Lesson 5- Frederic Jameson

Chapter 47- Psychoanalysis Criticism


Lesson 1- What is Psychoanalysis Criticism?
Lesson 2- Sigmund Freud
Lesson 3- Jacques Lacan
Lesson 4- Harold Bloom
Lesson 5- Noam Chomsky

Chapter 48- Archetypal Criticism


Lesson 1- What is Archetypal Criticism?
Lesson 2- J.S Frazer
Lesson 3- Carl Jung
Lesson 4- Northrop Frye
Lesson 5- Maud Bodkin

Chapter 49- Reader Response Theory


Lesson 1- What is Reader Response Theory?
Lesson 2- Norman Holland

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Lesson 3- Wolfgang Iser
Lesson 4- Stanley Fish
Lesson 5- H.R Hauss

Chapter 50- Feminism


Lesson 1- What is Feminism?
Lesson 2- Mary Wollstonecraft
Lesson 3- Margaret Fuller
Lesson 4- J.S Mill
Lesson 5- Virginia Woolf
Lesson 6- Simon De Beauvoir
Lesson 7- Kate Millett
Lesson 8- Judith Butler
Lesson 9- Elaine Showalter
Lesson 10- Helene Cixous
Lesson 11- Sandra & Susan Gilbert
Lesson 12- Shulamith Firestone

Chapter 51- Marxism


Lesson 1- What is Marxist Criticism?
Lesson 2- Karl Marx & Engels
Lesson 3- Louis Althrusser
Lesson 4- Antonio Gramsci
Lesson 5- Pierre Bourdieu
Lesson 6- Paul Ricoeur
Lesson 7- Ernest Mandel

Chapter 52- New Historicism


Lesson 1- What is New Historicism
Lesson 2- Stephen Greenbalt
Lesson 3- Raymond William
Lesson 4- Stuart Hall
Chapter 53- Queer Theory
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Lesson 1- What is Queer Theory?
Lesson 2- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Lesson 3- Alan Sinfield
Lesson 4- Adrienne Rich
Chapter 54- Eco Criticism
Lesson 1- What is Eco Criticism?
Lesson 2- Major Theorist

Chapter 55- Postcolonial Criticism


Lesson 1- What is Postcolonial Criticism?
Lesson 2- Franz Fanon
Lesson 3- Edward Said
Lesson 4- Homi K Bhabha
Lesson 5- Gayatri Spivak
Lesson 6- Aime Cesaire & Leopold
Lesson 7- Edward Soja
Lesson 8- Benedict Anderson
Lesson 9- Antonio Negri & Michael Hart
Lesson 10- Salman Rushdie
Lesson 11- Bill Ashcroft

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LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES
Chapter 56- Literary Devices & Figures of Speech
Lesson 1- Allegory
Lesson 2- Alliteration
Lesson 3- Allusion
Lesson 4- Anaphora
Lesson 5- Antithesis
Lesson 6- Apostrophe
Lesson 7- Bathos
Lesson 8- Conceit
Lesson 9- Circumlocution
Lesson 10- Chaismus
Lesson 11- Diacope
Lesson 12- Hyperbole
Lesson 13- Imagery
Lesson 14- Irony
Lesson 15- Juxtaposition
Lesson 16- Kenning
Lesson 17- Litotes
Lesson 18- Metaphor
Lesson 19- Metonymy
Lesson 20- Onomatopoeia
Lesson 21- Oxymoron
Lesson 22- Pathetic Fallacy
Lesson 23- Paradox
Lesson 24- Personification
Lesson 25- Prolepsis
Lesson 26- Simile
Lesson 27- Synecdoche
Lesson 28- Synesthesia
Lesson 29- Transferred Epithet
Lesson 30- Zeugma

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Chapter 57- Literary Terms
Lesson 1- Anti Climax
Lesson 2- Anti Hero
Lesson 3- Byronic Hero
Lesson 4- Bowdlerize
Lesson 5- Carpe Diem
Lesson 6- Celtic Myths
Lesson 7- Dream Vision
Lesson 8- Deus Ex Machina
Lesson 9- Epiphany
Lesson 10- Epilogue
Lesson 11- Euphemism
Lesson 12- Epigraph
Lesson 13- Epithet
Lesson 14- Epitaph
Lesson 15- Incunabula
Lesson 16- Motif
Lesson 17- Malapropism
Lesson 18- Purple Patch
Lesson 19- Poetic Licence
Lesson 20- Poetic Justice
Lesson 21- Poetic Diction
Lesson 22- Palinode
Lesson 23- Parody
Lesson 24- Satire
Lesson 25- Soliloquy

Chapter 58- Types of Fiction


Lesson 1- Apocalyptic Literature
Lesson 2- Bildungsroman
Lesson 3- Campus Novel
Lesson 4- Chivalric Romance
Lesson 5- Dystopian

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Lesson 6- Epistolary Novel
Lesson 7- Gothic
Lesson 8- Historic
Lesson 9- Metafiction
Lesson 10- Mystery
Lesson 11- Magic Realism
Lesson 12- Memoir
Lesson 13- Picaresque
Lesson 14- Science Fiction
Lesson 15- Roman e Clef

Chapter 59- Types of Narrators


Lesson 1- Narrative Perspective: First, Second & Third Person Point of View
Lesson 2- Omniscient Narrator
Lesson 3- Limited Narrator
Lesson 4- Unreliable Narrator
Lesson 5- Objective Narrator

Chapter 60- Types of Characters


Lesson 1- Protagonist & Antagonist
Lesson 2- Major & Minor Characters
Lesson 3- Dynamic & Static Characters
Lesson 4- Flat & Round Characters
Lesson 5- Stock Characters

Chapter 61- Prosody


Lesson 1- Introduction to Rhetoric & Prosody
Lesson 2- Introduction to Meter
Lesson 3- Types of Metrical Patterns
Lesson 4- Rhyme & Types of Rhyme
Lesson 5- Types of Stanza
Lesson 6- Types of Rhyme Scheme
Lesson 7- Types of Verse

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Lesson 8- Enjambment
Lesson 9- Caesura
Lesson 10- Refrain

Chapter 62- Types of Poetry


Lesson 1- Dramatic Poetry
Lesson 2- Narrative Poetry
Lesson 3- Epic Poetry
Lesson 4- Lyric Poetry
Lesson 5- Elegy
Lesson 6- Sonnet
Lesson 7- Ode
Lesson 8- Pastoral Poetry
Lesson 9- Concrete Poetry
Lesson 10- Doggerel

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LITERARY MOVEMENTS
Chapter 63- Renaissance
Lesson 1- Scottish Chaucerians
Lesson 2- University Wits
Lesson 3- Comedy of Humors
Lesson 4- Masque
Lesson 5- Sons of Ben
Lesson 6- Metaphysical Poets
Lesson 7- Cavalier Poets

Chapter 64- Enlightenment Age


Lesson 1- Commedia Dell`arte
Lesson 2- Kit Kat Club
Lesson 3- Scriblerus Club
Lesson 4- Graveyard Poets

Chapter 65- Romantic Age


Lesson 1- Lake Poets
Lesson 2- Satanic School of Poetry
Lesson 3- Cockney School of Poetry
Lesson 4- Dark Romantics
Lesson 5- Transcendentalism

Chapter 66- Victorian Age


Lesson 1- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Lesson 2- Aestheticism
Lesson 3- Fireside Poets
Lesson 4- Oxford Movement
Lesson 5- Realism
Lesson 6- Naturalism
Lesson 7- Impressionism

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Lesson 8- Symbolism
Lesson 9- Imagism
Lesson 10- Surrealism

Chapter 67- Modern Age


Lesson 1- Rhymer`s Club
Lesson 2- Irish Dramatic Movement
Lesson 3- Auden Group
Lesson 4- Georgian Poets
Lesson 5- Harlem Renaissance
Lesson 6- War Poets
Lesson 7- Lost Generation
Lesson 8- Bloomsbury Group
Lesson 9- Stream of Consciousness
Lesson 10- Black Mountain Poets
Lesson 11- New Apocalyptics
Lesson 12- Southern Agrarians

Chapter 68- Post Modern Age


Lesson 1- Black Arts Movement
Lesson 2- Existentialism
Lesson 3- Agitprop
Lesson 4- Theatre of Cruelty
Lesson 5- Epic Theatre
Lesson 6- Angry Young Man
Lesson 7- Kitchen Sink Drama
Lesson 8- Theatre of Absurd
Lesson 9- Theatre of Oppressed
Lesson 10- Beat Generation
Lesson 11- Confessional Poetry
Lesson 12- Movement Poets

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LANGUAGE & PEDAGOGY
Chapter 69- Linguistics
Lesson 1- Basics of ELT & Linguistics
Lesson 2- Phonology & Morphology
Lesson 3- Important Terms in Linguistics
Lesson 4- Basic English Project
Lesson 5- New Bolt Report
Lesson 6- Evolution of English Language: Old, Middle & Modern Age
Lesson 7- Popular Journals & Magazine
Lesson 8- Evolution of Dictionary: Popular Dictionaries
Lesson 9- Sapir Whorf Hypothesis

Chapter 70- English Language Pedagogy (Teaching Methodologies)


Lesson 1- Grammar Translation Method
Lesson 2- Direct Method
Lesson 3- Situational Approach
Lesson 4- Audio Lingual Method
Lesson 5- Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
Lesson 6- Total Physical Response (TPR)
Lesson 7- Suggestopedia
Lesson 8- Silent Way Method
Lesson 9- Natural Approach
Lesson 10- Task Based Language Teaching
Lesson 11- Interaction Hypothesis

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ENGLISH IN INDIA
Chapter 71- English in India: History, Evolution & Future
Lesson 1- Inception of English Education in India by East India Company
Lesson 2- Charter Act of 1813
Lesson 3- Role of Missionaries in English Education
Lesson 4- Demand for English Language by Indians during Colonial Period
Lesson 5- Role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Spreading English
Lesson 6- Role of William Bentinck & Lord Macaulay
Lesson 7- Macaulay’s Minute
Lesson 8- Wood’s Dispatch of 1854
Lesson 9- Hunter Education Commission of 1882
Lesson 10- Indian University Commission 1902
Lesson 11- Gokhale's Bill of 1912
Lesson 12- English Language during Independence Movement
Lesson 13- Role of Mahatma Gandhi in Indian English Literature
Lesson 14- Development of English during Post Independence Period
Lesson 15- Present State of English Language in India
Lesson 16- Summary of Unit 6 (English in India)

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CULTURAL STUDIES
Chapter 72- Cultural Studies (Major Terms)
Lesson 1- Defining Culture & Cultural Studies
Lesson 2- Elements of Culture
Lesson 3- Types of Culture
Lesson 4- Ideal vs Real Culture
Lesson 5- Cultural Globalization
Lesson 6- Mall Culture
Lesson 7- Media Culture
Lesson 8- Consumer Culture

Chapter 73- Cultural Studies (Major Theorists)


Lesson 1- Birth of Cultural Studies
Lesson 2- Early Theorist
Lesson 3- Stuart Hall
Lesson 4- Stephen Greenbalt
Lesson 5- Raymond Williams
Lesson 6- Antonio Gramsci
Lesson 6- Antonio Gramsci
Lesson 7- Louis Althrusser
Lesson 8- Frederick Jameson

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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Chapter 74- Research Methodology
Lesson 1- Introduction to Research & Types of Literary Research
Lesson 2- Aim & Objective of Literary Research
Lesson 3- Prerequisite to Literary Research
Lesson 4- Materials & Tools of Literary Research
Lesson 5- Method of Research: Biographical Research
Lesson 6- Method of Research: Bibliographical Research
Lesson 7- Method of Research: Critical Approach & Analysis
Lesson 8- Difference Between Research Paper, [Link] Thesis & Dissertation
Lesson 9- How to Choose Research Topic
Lesson 10- Format of Thesis Writing (Citation, Footnotes & Other Terms)

Chapter 75- Research Methodology Videos


Lesson 1- Choosing Research Topic
Lesson 2- Writing Research Proposal
Lesson 3- Step By Step Guide to Write Research Paper for English Literature
Lesson 4- Mistakes Students Make While Doing Research

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The role of English education in India during the colonial period was pivotal to shaping India's literary landscape. Instituted by policies like Macaulay's Minute and Wood's Dispatch, English became a tool for administrative purposes as well as higher education. This led to the growth of a Western-educated Indian intelligentsia proficient in English, which in turn facilitated the production of Indian literature that engaged with colonial themes and issues of identity. Figures like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Mahatma Gandhi used English to promote reform and communication across diverse regions, contributing to a rich body of Indian English literature that explores the complexities of post-colonial identity and cultural synthesis .

Realism emerged in Victorian literature as a response to the rapid social changes brought on by industrialization. It aimed to depict life with greater truthfulness and detail, focusing on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Key characteristics of realism include an emphasis on character development, intricate plot constructions exploring social and moral issues, and an objective point of view. Writers like Charles Dickens and George Eliot used realism to highlight the struggles and injustices faced by individuals in a changing society, thus fostering a greater understanding of contemporary social conditions .

Modernist literature employed literary devices such as stream of consciousness, unreliable narrators, and fragmented narratives to signify a break from traditional forms. These techniques enhanced the complexity of the narrative by allowing a deeper exploration of the characters' inner thoughts and emotional landscapes. The stream of consciousness technique, used by writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, presented consciousness as a flowing and connected stream of thoughts, providing a more authentic representation of human cognition. Additionally, the use of unreliable narrators and non-linear timelines encouraged readers to actively engage with the text, piecing together meanings from seemingly disjointed narratives, thus mirroring the ambiguity and complexity of modern life .

The Restoration Age reflected societal changes such as the re-establishment of the monarchy, shifts toward more secular viewpoints, and a renewed interest in scientific inquiry. This period witnessed the rebirth of theater with the re-opening of playhouses and introduced Restoration comedy, characterized by its wit, satire, and exploration of social manners. Libertine themes and the decadence of the courtly lifestyle found expression in both prose and drama, while writers like John Dryden embodied the age's intellectual rigor and focus on linguistic clarity .

Anglo-Saxon literature is characterized by its themes of heroism, loyalty, and the struggle between good and evil, reflecting a society that was heavily focused on warrior culture and the importance of allegiance to one's lord and kinsmen. The alliterative verse, use of kennings, and lack of rhyme are stylistic features prevalent in this period. Historic events like invasions and settlements by various tribes such as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes are mirrored in the literature's focus on epic battles and exploration of fate and mortality .

When conducting biographical research in literature, primary considerations include the historical context of the author's life, their personal experiences, and their relationships with contemporary events and figures. These elements can illuminate the nuances in a literary work and reveal influences that shaped its themes and characters. However, biographical research also necessitates caution as over-emphasizing an author's life events may lead to reductive interpretations, potentially overshadowing the text's broader thematic concerns or its aesthetic singularity. Thus, while biographical context can enrich understanding, it must be balanced with a focus on the text itself to avoid interpretive biases .

Cultural studies play a vital role in understanding literature as both an aesthetic and socio-political artifact by examining how cultural and historical contexts influence and are influenced by literary works. This interdisciplinary approach, associated with theorists like Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams, analyzes literature in relation to power dynamics, societal norms, and ideological structures. It considers literature as part of broader cultural practices, thus providing a comprehensive understanding of its impact and its ability to both reflect and challenge social realities. Cultural studies encourage readers to see beyond the aesthetic dimensions of a text and explore its role in shaping and questioning cultural identities and power relationships .

Geoffrey Chaucer significantly contributed to the evolution of English literature through his introduction of Middle English as a literary language, making literature accessible to a broader audience. His use of the iambic pentameter and the frame narrative structure in 'The Canterbury Tales' laid the groundwork for the development of English poetic forms and narrative techniques. Chaucer's works also provided a vivid portrayal of contemporary society by depicting characters from various social classes, thus enriching English literature with diverse perspectives .

The Elizabethan Age is marked by thematic concerns such as the tension between fate and free will, the nature of power, and the complexities of human emotions. Shakespearean drama, for instance, often explores issues of identity, betrayal, and ambition through complex characterizations and intricate plots. Stylistically, Elizabethan drama is known for its elaborate language, soliloquies, and the use of blank verse. The influence of classical texts and humanist ideals is also evident in its structure and themes .

The Romantic Age's focus on individualism and nature marked a distinct departure from the preceding Age of Enlightenment, which emphasized reason and order. Romantic literature celebrated the individual's emotional and psychological experiences and revered the sublime aspects of nature as a source of inspiration and spiritual renewal. Poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge explored the relationship between humanity and the natural world, advocating for personal freedom and creativity over societal constraints. This individualistic focus enriched the period's literary outputs with personal introspection and a celebration of the intrinsic beauty found in nature .

NET/JRF
ENGLISH
LITERATURE
SYLLABUS 
CONTENTS
Module 1-British Literature
03
Module 2- American Literature
13
Module 3- Postcolonial Literature
16
Module 4- European Literature
18
Module 5- Indian Liter
BRITISH LITERATURE
Chapter 1- Old & Middle English (500 TO 1300 AD)
Lesson 1- Introduction to Anglo Saxon Period: Historic Ba
Lesson 1- Introduction to Elizabethan Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style
Lesson 2- Popular Bible Translations
POETS
Lesso
Lesson 2- Ben Jonson
Lesson 3- George Chapman
Lesson 4- Beaumont & Fletcher
Lesson 5- John Webster
Lesson 6- Thomas Middleton
Chapter 7- Restoration Age (1660 to 1700 AD)
Lesson 1- Introduction to Restoration Age- Historic Background, Theme, Style
PRO
Lesson 7- Daniel Defoe
Lesson 8- Henry Fieldings
Lesson 9- Samuel Richardson
Lesson 10- Tobias Smolett
Lesson 11- Laurence St
Lesson 10- Leigh Hunt
Lesson 11- Charles Lamb
Lesson 12- Thomas De Quincey
NOVELIST
Lesson 13- Walter Scott
Lesson 14- Jane A
Lesson 16- Charlotte Bronte
Lesson 17- Emily Bronte
Lesson 18- Anne Bronte
Lesson 19- Bulwer Lyton
Lesson 20- Charles Kingsle
Lesson 9- E.M Foster
Lesson 10- Ford Madox Ford
Lesson 11- Arnold Bennett
Lesson 12- H.G Wells
Lesson 13- J.M Barrie
Lesson 1

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