Haryana public Service Commission
Bays No. l_10, Block_B,
Sector_4, panchkula
Announcement
It is hereby announced for generar information ofcandidates
that the commission
had advertised 2424 posts of
Assistant professor (couege
Cadre) in various Subjects in
Higher Education Department, Haryana,
vide advertisement No.42 to 67
0f 2024fo.,owed
by the announcement dated 3o.1o.2o24and
corrigendum-Il dated 24.02.2025.commission
has
received many representations
for more specific and detaired syllabus
for the post of Assistant
Professor (corlege cadre) in the
subject ofEnglish. Therefore, the
commission has considered
the representations and the sylrabus
for the above.uia po.t tu. been
detailed out. The detailed
syllabus is attached & also available
on Commission,s website.
Dated: lo.\,1a4: lL4JdL-)r,
'lelUl>oT
Secretary
Haryana Public Serv ice
lomrnission
Panchkula ()9
Syllabus for the Post of Assistant Professor (College Cadre)
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Subject-English
Unit l: Drama
Sophocles: OediPus Rex
Kalidasa : Ab hi g Y o n 5 h o ku nt a I o m
Plaulus: The Pot of Gold
Christopher Ma rlowe: Doctor Fd ustus
Wif liam Shakespe arei Hamlet; Twetfth Night; Henry tV Port l, The
Merchant of venice
John Webster: The Duchess of Molfi
Ben Jonson: Volqone or the Fox
William Congreve I The Woy of the World
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: fhe Schoolfor Scondol
George Bernard Shaw: Arms ond the Mon
John Osborne: Look Bock in Anger
Samuel Beckett: Woiting for Godot
Eugene O'Neill: The lcemon Cometh
Arthur Miller: Deoth of o Solesmon
Tennessee William si A Streetcor Nomed Desire
Henrik lbsen: A Doll's House
Girish Karnard: IugloEt
Mahesh Dattani: Finol Solutions
Unit ll: Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Conterbury Toles: Generol Prologue
Edmund SPenser: The Foerie Queene
Philip Sidney: Sonnet 1 ("Loving in truth and fain in verse my love to
show")
Sonnet 2 ("Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot")
Sonnet 5 ("lt is most true that eyes are formed to serve")
Sonnet 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon' thou climb'stthe skies")
Sonnet 39 ("Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace")
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18, Sonnet 24, "Venus and Adonls"
JohnDonne:"TheFlea","AValedictionForbiddingMourninS""'TheEcstasy""'The
Good Morrow"
John Milton: Parodise Lost Book I
Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
John Dryden: Absolom ond AchitoPhel
Alexander PoPe: The RoPe of the Lock
Samuel Johnson: "The Vanity of Human Wishes"
WilliamWordsworth:,.TinternAbbey.,,''odeonthelntimationsoflmmortality',
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
P. B. Shelley: "Ode to West Wind", "To a Skylark"
John Keats: "ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian U rn"' "ode to Autumn"
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lotus Eaters", "Ulysses"', "ln Memoriam
Mistress"
Robert Browning, "vty t-..t Duchess", "The Last Ride To8ether",''Lost
Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach", "The Scholar-Gipsy"
D. G. Rossetti: "The Blessed Damozel", "The Portrait"
W.B. Yeats: "The Second Coming", ", "When You Are Old", "A Prayer for
My
Daughter"
T. S. Eliot: "The Waste Land", "The Love Song of J' Alfred Prufrock"
W. H. Auden:"ln Memory of W. B. Yeats", ', "The Shield of Achilles"
Sylvia Plath: "Daddy", ", "Lady Lazarus"
WaltWhitman:"WhenLilacsLastintheDooryardBloom'd","CrossingBrooklyn
Ferry"
Emily Dickinson: "Because lCould Not Stop for Death", "Success is Counted
Sweetest", "lTaste a Liquor Never Brewed"
Nissim Ezekiel: "Nightofthe Scorpion", "Goodbye Party for Miss PushpaT S'","The
Patriot", "The Professor"
Kamala Das: "The Freaks", "A Hot Noon in Malabar", "The Sunshine Cat", "The
LookinB Glass"
Unit lll: Fiction and Short Stories
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Jane Austen: Pride ond Preiudice
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens: Hord Times
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d' Urbervilles
D.H. Lawrence: 50 ns ond the Lovers
Emile Zola: Nono
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
James Joyce: A Po rtroit of the Artist as o Young Mon
E.M. Forster: A Possoge to lndio
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scdrlet Letter
Kingsley Amis; luckY Jim
George Orwell: Ninetee n Eighty-Four
Mark Twain: HuckleberrY Finn
Henry James: The Portrait of o LodY
Ernest Hemingwayl. A Forewell to Arms
Alice Walker: The Colour PurPle
Raja Rao: KonthoPuro
Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchoble
R. K. Narayan: The Guide
Amitav Ghosh: The Shodow Lines
Shashi Deshpande: Thot Long Silence
Anita Desai: Rosorlto
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Mistress of Spices
Patrick white: The TwYborn Affoir
Margaret Atwood: The Hondmoid's Tole
Chinua Achebe: Things FollAqort
Munshi Premchan d'. Kormobhoomi
V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswos
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
O. Henry: "The Gift of the Magi"
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party"
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Guy de Maupassant: "The Necklace"
Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez:"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World',
Rabindranatah Tagore: "Kabuliwala',
Ruskin Bond: "The Blue Umbrella"
Munshi Premchand: "The Shroud" (Kafan)
Unit lV: Non-Fictional Prose
Francis Bacon: "Of Studies", "Of Truth',, ,'Of Friendship,', ,,Of Love,'
Richard Steele and Joseph Addison: "Duelling,,, ,,Of the Club,,, ,,Female Orators,,,
"Aims of the Spectator"
Mary Wollstonecraft. AVindication of the Rights of Womon
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance, ""The American Scholar,,
Aurobindo: The Foundotions of lndion Culture
.M. K Gandhi: My Experiments withTruth
S Radhakrishnan: The Hindu View of Life
AP ) Kalam:Wings of Fire
Nelson Mandela: "Long Walk to Freedom"
Unit V: LanBuage: Basic Concepts, Theories, and pedagogy, English in Use
Linguistics: Phonetics, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology
Theories of Language Acquisition: Behaviourism, Nativism, and Constructivism
Structuralist and Functionalist Approaches to Language
Methods of Teaching English (e.g., Gramma r-Translation Method, Communicative
Language Teaching)
Language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing (LSRW)
Language Assessment Techniques
Functional English for Communication
Business and Academic English
English for Specific Purpose (e.g., Legal, Technical, Medical)
Unit Vl: English in lndia: History, Evolution, and Futures
Arrival of English in lndia: Colonial tnfluence and the British Education System
Role of English in the Nationalist Movement and post-lndependence Era
English as a Second Language in tndia
Regional lnfluences on lndian English
Role of English in Education, Media, and Governance
Globalization and the Evolving Role of English in lndia
Challenges of Preserving lndigenous Languages
lnnovations in Teaching English in the lndian Context
Unit Vll: Cultural Studies
Raymond Williams
Richard Hoggart
Roland Barthes
Michel Fouca ult
Stuart Hall
Fredric Jameson
Edward Said
Homi K. Bha bha
Stephen G reenblatt
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Unit Vlll: literary Criticism
lndian Aesthetics: Theory of Rdso, ond Theory of Dhavoni
Aristotle: poetlcs
Longinus: On the Sublime
Horacei Ars Poetica
John Dryden: A, Essoy o f Dromotic poesy
William Wordsworth: "preface" to Iyrical Bollads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria
Matthew Arnold: "The Study of poetry,,
Henry James: "The Art of Fiction,,
Saussure: "Nature of the Linguistic Sign,,
. T.5. Eliot: "Tradition and the lndividual Talent',
1. A. Richards: "Two Uses of Language,,
Unit lX: Literary Theory Post World War lt
Marxism
Poststructuralism a nd Deconstruction
Postmodernism
Feminism, Feminist Theory, and post-Feminism
Psychoana lysls Reader-Response Theory
Postcolonial Theory, and Neocolonialism
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Ecocriticism
Queer Theory
Unit X: Research Methods and Materials in English
Types of Research: eualitative, euantitative, Mixed Methods
ldentifying Research Gaps and Formulating euestions
Textual Analysis and Critical Reading
Archival Research and Primary/Secondary Sources
Use of Digital Tools for Research (e.g., JSTOR, MLA Databases)
Structuring Academic papers and Theses
Citation Styles (e.9., MLA, ApA)
Ethical Considerations in Research
Note: The candidate's knowledge must also be tested by asking questions from history,
movements and trends in English.
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