UGC-NTA NET Exam Syllabus: Paper II- English

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Paper II – English (Unit-wise Syllabus)

Table of Contents

Unit 1: Literary Theory

  • Classical Criticism – Plato, Aristotle
  • Neoclassical Criticism – Dryden, Pope, Johnson
  • Romantic Criticism – Wordsworth, Coleridge
  • Victorian Criticism – Matthew Arnold
  • New Criticism
  • Structuralism & Post-Structuralism
  • Deconstruction
  • Psychoanalytic Criticism – Freud, Jung, Lacan
  • Marxist Criticism
  • Feminist & Gender Studies
  • New Historicism & Cultural Materialism
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Ecocriticism
  • Reader-Response Theory
  • Discourse Analysis

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Unit 2: English Literature from Chaucer to the Present

  • Chaucer & Medieval Literature
  • Renaissance – Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne
  • Restoration & 18th Century – Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson
  • Romantic Age – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron
  • Victorian Age – Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, Hardy
  • Modern Age – Eliot, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence
  • Contemporary British Literature

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Unit 3: American & Other Non-British English Literatures

  • American Poetry, Novel, Drama, Essays
  • African-American Literature
  • Native American Literature
  • Canadian Literature
  • Australian Literature
  • New Zealand Literature
  • Caribbean Literature
  • Other Commonwealth Literatures

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Unit 4: European Literature (Classical to Modern)

  • Greek & Roman Literature – Homer, Sophocles, Virgil
  • French, German & Russian Literature
  • Kafka, Camus, Sartre
  • Brecht, Ibsen, Chekhov
  • Tolstoy, Dostoevsky

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Unit 5: Indian Writing in English & Indian Literatures in Translation

  • Early Indian English Writing
  • Post-Independence Indian Writing in English
  • Dalit & Tribal Literature
  • Indian Literatures in Translation
  • Major Writers – R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand
  • Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh
  • Salman Rushdie, Mahesh Dattani

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Unit 6: Literary Criticism & History of English Language

A. Literary Criticism

  • Aristotle – Poetics
  • Longinus – On the Sublime
  • Sidney – Apology for Poetry
  • Wordsworth – Preface to Lyrical Ballads
  • T. S. Eliot
  • F. R. Leavis

B. History of English Language

  • Old, Middle & Modern English
  • Phonological & Semantic Changes
  • Growth of Vocabulary
  • Standardization of English
  • Varieties of English

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Unit 7: Cultural & Literary Theory

  • Semiotics
  • Postmodernism
  • Subaltern Studies
  • Queer Theory
  • Disability Studies
  • Diaspora Studies
  • Popular Culture Studies

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Unit 8: Rhetoric, Prosody & Stylistics

  • Figures of Speech
  • Prosody – Meter, Rhyme, Rhythm
  • Stylistic Analysis of Prose & Poetry
  • Narrative Techniques & Structures

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Unit 9: English Language Teaching (ELT) & Linguistics

ELT

  • Language Acquisition Theories
  • Teaching Approaches & Methods
  • Communicative Language Teaching
  • Testing & Evaluation

Linguistics

  • Phonetics & Phonology
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Semantics & Pragmatics
  • Discourse Analysis

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Unit 10: Research Methodology & Teaching Aptitude

  • Types of Research
  • Literature Review
  • Hypothesis & Sampling
  • Research Tools & Data Collection
  • MLA & APA Citation Styles
  • Classroom Management
  • Lesson Planning
  • Use of Technology in Teaching

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