UGC NET ENGLISH LITERATURE NOTES
Unit –I : Drama - Development of drama in English Literature
Unit –II : Poetry - From Old English to Modern Age
Unit –III : Fiction, short story- Important short stories covered
Unit –IV : Non-Fictional Prose
NOTE: In this part comprehension passages will be included in order to assess critical reading, critical thinking and writing skills. These four units will cover all literatures in English.
Unit –V : Language: Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy. English in Use.
Unit –VI : English in India: Important writers and their works
Unit –VII : Cultural Studies
Unit –VIII : Literary Criticism - topic wise notes
Unit –IX : Literary Theory post World War II - 50 important theories
Unit –X : Research Methods and Materials in English
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UNIT 1
Drama
British Drama: From Elizabethan to Victorian
PART 1
Christopher Marlowe- Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe- Jew of Malta
William Shakespeare- Othello
William Shakespeare- King Lear
William Shakespeare- Hamlet
William Shakespeare- Macbeth
William Shakespeare- Tempest
Ben Jonson- Volpone
Thomas Middleton- Revenger's Tragedy
William Congreve- Way of the World
John Webster- Duchess of Mal
G.B Shaw- Arms & The Man
G.B Shaw- Pygmalion
T.S Eliot- Murder in the Cathedral
John Millington Synge- Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge- Riders to the Sea
Alan Bennett: History Boys
Harold Pinter- Birthday Party
Harold Pinter- Dumb Waiter
Samuel Beckett- Waiting for Godot
Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard- Arcadia
Terence Rattigan- Browning Vision
Terence Rattigan- Windslow Boy
John Osborne- Look Back in Anger
Caryl Churchill- Top Girls
American Drama
PART 2
Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams- The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller- All My Sons
Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
Eugene O'Neill- Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill: Hairy Ape
Eugene O'Neill: The Emperor Jones
Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
August Wilson: Fences
August Wilson: The Piano Lesson
Post-Colonial-Drama
PART 3
Wole Soyinka- The Lion & The Jewel
Wole Soyinka- Death & The King's Horsemen
Derek Walcott- Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott- Pantomime
European Drama
PART 4
Aeschylus- Agamemnon
Sophocles- Oedipus Rex
Euripides- The Bacchae
Aristophanes- The Clouds
Luigi Pirandello- Six Characters in Search of an Author
Anton Chekhov- The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov- Uncle Vanya
Goethe- Faust (Parts 1 and 2)
Bertolt Brecht- Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht- The Life of Galileo
Eugène Ionesco- The Chairs
Albert Camus- The Stranger
Albert Camus- The Plague
August Strindberg- Miss Julie
Henrik Ibsen- Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen- Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen- An Enemy of People
Indian Drama
PART 5
Girish Karnad- Hayavadana
Vijay Tendulkar- Silence! The Court is in the Session
Mahesh Dattani- Dance Like A Man
UNIT II
Poetry
British Poetry: From Old English Period to Romantic Age
PART I
Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
Beowulf
Geoffrey Chaucer- Canterbury Tales
Edmund Spenser- The Faerie Queene
John Donne Sunne Rising, Canonization, Valediction Forbidden Mourning & Flea
Andrew Marvell- To His Coy Mistress
John Milton- Paradise Lost
Alexander Pope- The Rape of the Lock
Thomas Gray- Elegy Written in Country Churchyard
William Blake- Songs of Innocence & Experience
William Wordsworth- Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Solitary Reaper,
Ode to Duty, London 2802 & Prelude
Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Kubla Khan, Christabel, Frost At Midnight
Lord Byron- She Walks in Beauty, Don Juan & When we two parted
John Keats- Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Melancholy &
Ode on Indolence
P B Shelley- Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind & Prometheus Unbound
British Poetry: Victorian Age to Post Modern Age
PART II
Lord Alfred Tennyson- Ulysses, Lotus Eaters, Break Break Break, The Princess
Robert Browning- My Last Duchess, Fra Lippo Lippi, Porphyria's Lover & A Grammarian's
Funeral
Christina Rossetti- Goblin Market
G M Hopkins- Pied Beauty
Matthew Arnold- Dover Beach, Scholar Gypsy & Thyrsis
W B Yeats- Sailing to Byzantium, Among School Children, Leda & Swan
W H Auden- Musée des Beaux Arts, In Memory of W.B. Yeats & September 1, 1939
T S Eliot- The Wasteland
Wilfred Owen- Strange Meeting, Futility, Anthem for Doomed Youth & Dulce et Decorum est
Seamus Heaney- Digging
Ted Hughes- Pike, Hawk Roosting, View of a Pig, Thistles & Thought Fox
Philip Larkin- At Grass, Wants, Church Going, Aubade
American Poetry
PART III
Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass
Emily Dickinson- I Felt a funeral, I heard a
Robert Frost- Birches, Road Not Taken, After Apple Picking, Stopping by Woods
Sylvia Plath- Ariel, Lady Lazarus & Daddy
Elizabeth Bishop- Selected Poems
Robert Lowell- For the Union Dead
Allen Ginsberg- Howl & A Supermarket in California
Wallace Stevens- The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Sunday Morning & Anecdote of the Jar
Post-Colonial Poetry
PART IV
Langston Hughes- I Too, Harlem, Weary Blues
A.D Hope- Beware of Ruins
Derek Walcott- Omeros
Derek Walcott- Far Cry from Africa
Pablo Neruda- Tonight I can Write, Ars Poetica, The Way Spain Was
Judith Wright- Woman to Man, The Harp & The King
European Poetry
PART V
Homer- The Iliad
Homer- The Odyssey
Virgil- The Aeneid
Ovid- Metamorphoses
Dante- Divine Comedy
Charles Baudelaire- The Flowers of Evil
UNIT III
Novels
British Novels: From Elizabethan to Romantics
PART I
Utopia- Sir Thomas More
Le Morte d’Arthur- Sir Thomas Malory
John Bunyan- Pilgrim Progress
Jonathan Swift- Gulliver's Travels
Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe- Moll Flanders
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Lawrence Sterne- Tristram Shandy
Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen- Mansfield
Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
Horace Walpole- The Castle of Otranto
Fanny Burney- Evelina
British Novels: Victorian Period
PART II
Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
Charles Dickens- David Copper
William Makepeace Thackeray- Vanity Fair
George Eliot- Mill on the Floss
George Eliot- Middlemarch
Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy- Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy- Mayor of the Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy- Jude The Obscure
Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland
Wilkie Collins- The Woman in White
British Novels: Modern & Postmodern Period
DAY 13
Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad- Lord Jim
George Orwell- 1984
James Joyce- Ulysses
James Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf- To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf- Orlando
D.H Lawrence- Sons and Lovers
D.H Lawrence- Women in Love
Aldous Huxley- Brave New World
Graham Greene- The Power and the Glory
E.M Forster- A Passage to India
H.G Wells- The Invisible Man
Rudyard Kipling- The Man Who Would Be King
Jeanette Winterson- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
William Golding- Lord of the Flies
Martin Amis- Lucky Jim
John Fowles- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Muriel Spark- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
American Novels
PART IV
Herman Melville- Moby Dick
Louisa May Alcott- Little Woman
Nathaniel Hawthrone- The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Henry James- The Portrait of a Lady
Theordore Dreiser- Sister Carrie
William Faulkner- Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner- As I Lay Dying
Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
F.Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
Post - Colonial Novels
PART V
Toni Morrison- Beloved
Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Are Watching God
Alice Walker- The Color Purple
Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man
Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea
Kazuo Ishiguru- Never Let me Go
Salman Rushdie- Midnight's Children
V.S Naipaul- A House for Mr Biswas
Sam Selvon- Lonely Londoners
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Half of a Yellow Sun
Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart
J.M Coetzee- Disgrace
Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient
Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood- Surfacing
Shyam Selvaduria- Funny Boy
David Malouf- Fly Away Peter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude
European Novels
PART VI
Fyodor Dostoesvsky- The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace
Alexander Pushkin- Eugene Onegin
Boris Pasternak- Dr Zhivago
Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons
Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita
Thomas Mann- Death in Venice
Franz Kafka- The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka- The Trial
Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha
Günther Grass- The Tin Drum
Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary
Albert Camus- The Plague
Albert Camus- The Stranger
Alexandre Dumas- The Three Musketeers
Pearl S Buck- The Good Earth
Indian Novels
PART VII
R K Narayan- The Guide
R K Narayan- Swami and Friends
Raja Rao- Kanthapura
Kamala Markandaya- Nectar in a Sieve
Khushwant Singh- Train to Pakistan
Anita Desai- Fasting Feasting
Kiran Desai- The Inheritance of Loss
Arundhati Roy- The God of Small Things
Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake
Amitav Ghosh- The Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh- Hungry Tide
Aravind Adiga- The White Tiger
UNIT IV
Short Stories & Non Fiction
Short Stories
PART I
Edgar Allen Poe's Short Stories Short
George Orwell- Shooting an Elephant
Ray Bradbury- A Sound of Thunder
Oscar Wilde- The Nightingale and the Rose
Ernest Hemingway- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Guy de Maupassant- The Necklace
Alice Munro- The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Nikolai Gogol- The Overcoat
James Joyce- Dubliners
O. Henri- The Gift of the Magi
Short Stories
PART II
Kate Chopin- The Story of an Hour
Washington Irving- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Yellow Wallpaper
Anton Chekhov- The Bet
Leo Tolstoy- How Much Land Does a Man Need
Jhumpa Lahiri- Interpreter of Maladies
Henry James- The Beast in the Jungle
Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Birthmark
William Faulkner- A Rose for Emily
Giovanni Boccaccio- The Decameron
Non-Fiction Works (British Literature)
PART III
Francis Bacon- New Atlantis & Great Instauration
Robert Burton- Anatomy of Melancholy
Samuel Pepys- Diary of Samuel Pepys
John Locke- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke- Two Treatises of Government
Edmund Burke- Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Thomas Hobbes- Leviathan
Jonathan Swift- A Modest Proposal
Bertrand Russell- A History of Western Philosophy
E. M. Forster- Aspects of the Novel
George Orwell- Collection of Essays
T. S. Eliot- Selected Essays
Works (American & European)
Henry David Thoreau- Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau- Walden
Ralph Waldo Emerson- The American Scholar
Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self Reliance
Jean Jacques Rousseau- The Social Contract
Jean Paul Sartre- Existentialism Is a Humanism
Albert Camus- The Myth of Sisyphus
Niccolo Machiavelli- The Prince
Maya Angelou- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Plato- The Republic
UNIT V
Language: Basic concepts, theories and pedagogy English in Use.
Language: Basic Concepts & Theories
PART I
Basics of ELT & Linguistics
Phonology & Morphology
Important Terms in Linguistics
Basic English Project
New Bolt Report
Evolution of English Language: Old, Middle & Modern Age
Popular Journals & Magazine
Evolution of Dictionary: Popular Dictionaries
Sapir Whorf Hypothesis
English Language Pedagogy (Teaching Methodologies)
PART II
Grammar Translation Method
Direct Method
Situational Approach
Audio Lingual Method
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
Total Physical Response (TPR)
Suggestopedia
Silent Way Method
Natural Approach
Task Based Language Teaching
Interaction Hypothesis
UNIT VI
PART I
English in India
UNIT VII
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies (Major Terms)
PART I
Defining Culture & Cultural Studies
Elements of Culture
Types of Culture
Ideal vs Real Culture
Cultural Globalization
Mall Culture
Media Culture
Consumer Culture
Cultural Studies (Major Theorists)
PART II
Birth of Cultural Studies
Early Theorist
Stuart Hall
Stephen Greenbalt
Raymond Williams
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Louis Althrusser
Frederick Jameson
UNIT VIII
Literary Criticism
Greek Critics
PART I
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Roman Critics
PART II
Horace
Longinus
Quintilian
Middle Age Critics
PART III
Philip Sidney
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson
Romantic Age Critics
PART IV
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Victorian Age Critics
PART V
George Eliot
Friedrich Nietsche
G.M Hopkins
Henry James
Matthew Arnold
T.S Eliot
UNIT–IX
Literary Theory
Most Important Theories
PART I
New Criticism
Formalism
Structuralism
Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism
Post Modernism
Psychoanalysis Criticism
Archetypal Literary Theory
Reader Response Theory
Feminism
Marxist Criticism
New Historicism
Queer Theory
Eco Criticism
Postcolonial Theory
UNIT–X:
Research Methods
Research Methodology
PART I
Introduction to Research & Types of Literary Research
Aim & Objective of Literary Research
Prerequisite to Literary Research
Materials & Tools of Literary Research
Method of Research: Biographical Research
Method of Research: Bibliographical Research
Method of Research: Critical Approach & Analysis
Difference Between Research Paper, M.Phil Thesis & Dissertation
How to Choose Research Topic
Format of Thesis Writing (Citation, Footnotes & Other Terms)
Research Methodology
PART II
Choosing Research Topic
Writing Research Proposal
Step By Step Guide to Write Research Paper for English Literature
Mistakes Students Make While Doing Research
REVISIONS WITH DETAILED MCQ
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