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English Literature
Literary periods, prose and poetry analysis.
Group 5Code: 36100 Marks
Recommended for CSS Preparation
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Syllabus Outline
I. Essays (10 Marks)
Bertrand Russell, George Orwell, Ralph Waldo Emerson
II. Short Stories (10 Marks)
Somerset Maugham, G.K.Chesterton, O’Henry
III. Poetry (20 marks)
Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot, Larkin, Wallace Stevens/Walt Whitman
IV. Drama (20 marks)
Shakespeare, Congreve, Shaw, Pinter, Beckett, O’Neill
V. Novels (20 marks)
Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, George Orwell, James Joyce, Iris Murdoch, Hawthorne/Faulkner
VI. Literacy Theory & Criticism (20 Marks)
- Structuralism
- Marxism
- Deconstructionism
- Psychoanalytic criticism
- Feminist criticism
- Postcolonial Criticism