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PG TRB English

Master the art of language and literature with the official PG TRB English syllabus.

This syllabus includes British Literature, Indian Writing in English, American Literature, Literary Criticism, and Linguistics.

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PG TRB English Syllabus

Unit I – ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1400-1600

Poetry

Geoffrey Chaucer                                   Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (The Book of the Duchess Chapter only)

Edmund Spenser                                     Prothalamion and Epithalamion

Sir Thomas Wyatt                                   Remembrance

Prose

Bacon – Essays                                        Of Truth, Of Friendship, Of Studies, Of Adversity, Of Revenge and Of Ambition

Sir Philip Sydney                                    An Apologie for Poetrie

The Bible                                                The Book of Job

Drama

Christopher Marlowe                              Dr. Faustus

Thomas Kyd                                            The Spanish Tragedy

Ben Jonson                                              Every Man in His Humour

Unit II – ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1601-1798

Poetry

John Milton                                             Paradise Lost, Book – 1X

Andrew Marvell                                      To His Coy Mistress

John Donne                                             The Canonization

Alexander Pope                                       The Rape of the Lock

John Dryden                                            Absalom and Achitophel

Thomas Gray                                           Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Prose and Fiction

Samuel Johnson                                      Life of Milton

Jonathan Swift                                        Gulliver’s Travels

John Bunyan                                           The Pilgrim’s Progress

Daniel Defoe                                           Robinson Crusoe

Drama

John Dryden                                            All for Love

Richard B. Sheridan                                The School for Scandal

William Congreve              The Way of the World

Oliver Goldsmith                                     She Stoops to Conquer

Unit III – ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1798-1850

Poetry

William Wordsworth                               Immortality, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude – Book-I

Samuel Coleridge                                 Ode to Dejection, Kubla Khan

John Keats                                               Ode to a Nightingale

Percy Bysshe Shelley                              Ozymandias, Adonais

Prose and Fiction

Charles Lamb        Essays of Elia Christ’s Hospital, The South Sea House, Dream Children, New Year’s Eve

William Hazlitt                   My First Acquaintance with Poets

William Wordsworth                              Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Jane Austen                                            Sense and Sensibility

Emily Bronte                                          Wuthering Heights

Lyrical Drama

Percy Bysshe Shelley                              Prometheus Unbound

Unit IV – LITERATURE FROM 1851 TO THE PRESENT DAY

Poetry

Mathew Arnold                                       Dover Beach, The Scholar Gypsy

Robert Browning                                     Andrea Del Sarto

Alfred Lord Tennyson                             Ulysses

W.B. Yeats                                               Byzantium

T.S. Eliot                                                  The Waste Land

G.M. Hopkins                                          God’s Grandeur

W.H. Auden                                             The Unknown Citizen

Ted Hughes                                            The Thought Fox

Prose and Fiction

Thomas Carlyle                                        On Heroes, Hero-Worship and theHeroic in History Lecture III- Shakespeare

Mathew Arnold                                         The Study of Poetry

George Orwell                                          You and the Atom Bomb

Charles Dickens                                       Hard Times

George Eliot                                             The Mill on the Floss

Thomas Hardy                                         Mayor of Casterbridge

Virginia Woolf                                           Mrs. Dalloway

Drama

John Osborne                                          Look Back in Anger

Bertolt Brecht                                           Mother Courage and Her Children

J.M. Synge                                               Riders to the Sea

Caryl Churchill                                         Top Girls

Unit V – PLAYS AND SONNETS BY SHAKESPEARE

Drama

Othello, King Lear, The Tempest, Measure for Measure

Sonnets

18, 29,65, 104,106, 116, 129,130

Unit VI – AMERICAN LITERATURE

Poetry

Walt Whitman                                 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Anne Bradstreet                              Prologue

R.W. Emerson                               Brahma

Robert Frost                                    Birches, Mending Wall

Paul Lawrence Dunbar             The Sparrow

Maya Angelou                                 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

E.E. Cummings                               The Cambridge Ladies

Charlotte Perkins Gilman          The Anti-Suffragists

Prose and Fiction

H.D. Thoreau                                  Where I Lived and What I Lived For

R.W. Emerson                               The American Scholar

William Faulkner                            Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Toni Morrison                                 Beloved

Jhumpa Lahiri                                 The Namesake

Drama

Arthur Miller                                           The Death of a Salesman

Eugene O’ Neil                                        Emperor Jones

Tennessee Williams                                 A Street Car Named Desire

Unit VII – (A) INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Poetry

Rabindranath Tagore                               Gitanjali

Nissim Ezeikel                                         Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa

Toru Dutt                                                  Our Casuarina Tree

Kamala Das                                             An Introduction

Sujatha Bhatt                                           A Different History

Prose and Fiction

Jawaharlal Nehru                                     An Autobiography

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar                                  Annihilation of Caste

Mulk Raj Anand                                      Coolie

Kamala Markandeya                                A Handful of Rice

Arundathi Roy             The God of Small Things

Drama

Girish Karnad                                           Hayavadana

Vijay Tendulkar                                        Silence! The Court is in Session

Mahasweta Devi                                      Rudali

Mahesh Dattani                                        Dance like a Man

(B) COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE

Poetry

Kath Walker                                             A Song of Hope

Banjo Patterson                                       Waltzing Mathilda

Wole Soyinka                                           The Telephone Conversation

E.J. Pratt                                                  The Dying Eagle

Judith Wright                                            At Cooloolah

Abioseh Nicol                                           The Meaning of Africa

A.D. Hope                                                Australia

Prose and Fiction

Thomas King                                            Godzilla Vs Post-Colonial

Chinua Achebe                                        Things Fall Apart

Alan Paton                                               Cry, the Beloved Country

Patrick White                                            Voss

Drama

Wole Soyinka                                           The Lion and the Jewel

George Ryga                                           The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Jane Harrison                                          Stolen

Unit VIII – LITERARY CRITICISM

1.     Aristotle                            Poetics

2.     Dryden                          Essay of Dramatic Poesy

3.     Coleridge                          Biographia Literaria Ch. XIV and Ch XVII

4.     T. S. Eliot                      Metaphysical Poets

5.      I. A. Richards                    Four Kinds of Meaning

6.     William Empson           The Seven Types of Ambiguity

7.     Northrop Frye                   The Archetypes of Literature

8.     Cleanth Brooks             Irony as a Principle of Structure

9.     Allen Tate                         Tension in Poetry

10.   Elaine Showalter      Towards a Feminist Poetics

11.   Simone de Beauvoir     The Second Sex

Unit IX – LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND PEDAGOGY

History of English Language and its Growth

Indo – European Family and the Place of English language Old, Middle and Modern English

Growth of Vocabulary from various Foreign Languages, Change in Meaning, Influence of The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton and Dr. Johnson

Characteristics of Modern English, Spelling Reform and the English Lexicon

Linguistics

English Phonetics and Phonology (Vowels, Consonants and Diphthongs) Morphology, Word formation and its different types

Semantics Dialect & Idiolect

Grammar – Traditional, Transformational Generative Grammar and Deep Structure

Applied Linguistics

English Language Teaching (ELT)

History of ELT

Second Language Acquisition Designing Syllabus

Materials Production

Language Testing and Evaluation

UNIT X – APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE SKILLS

Phrases, Synonyms, Antonyms, Prefix and Suffix, Tenses, Voice,

Parts of Speech, Homophones, Articles and Determiners, Identifying Sentence Patterns, Compound Words, Figures of Speech, Identifying and Correcting Errors, British and American English

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