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CSS Syllabus

Subject: English Literature

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Paper: English Literature (100 Marks)
The paper is divided into six components along with the mark’s allocation for each component.

I. Essays: (10 Marks)


• Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness)
• George Orwell (Politics and the English Language; The Prevention of
Literature)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Transcendentalist; Self-Reliance)

II. Short Stories: (10 Marks)


• Somerset Maugham (The Lotus-Eater)
• G.K.Chesterton (A Somewhat Improbable Story)
• O’Henry (The Gift of the Magi)

III. Poetry: (20


marks)
• William Wordsworth (Resolution and Independence; Lines Composed Few
Miles
Above, Tintern Abbey)
• John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Autumn)
• Lord Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses; The Lady of Shalott)
• Yeats (A Dialogue of Self and Soul; The Second Coming)
• Eliot (The Wasteland; Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
• Philip Larkin (Maturity; Continuing to Live; The Trees)
• Wallace Stevens (A Postcard from the Volcano; Continual Conversation
with a Silent
Man; Dry Loaf) OR Walt Whitman (As I Ponder’d in Silence; Are You the
New Person
Drawn Toward Me?; This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful)
IV. Drama: (20
marks)
• Shakespeare (Hamlet; King Lear; Twelfth Night)
• William Congreve (The Way of the World)
• Shaw (Pygmalion; Heartbreak House )
• Harold Pinter (The Caretaker)
• Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
• Eugene O’Neill (Long Day’s Journey into Night)

V. Novels: (20
marks)
• Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd)
• D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)
• George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-four)
• James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
• Iris Murdoch (Under the Net)

VI. Literacy Theory & Criticism (20 Marks)


• Structuralism
• Marxism
• Deconstructionism
• Psychoanalytic criticism
• Feminist criticism
• Postcolonial Criticism

Note: The texts are mentioned in brackets in front of each author’s name.
However, for the component on “Literary Theory and Criticism” and for
understanding poetry and drama, particularly 20th century poetry and
Drama, following readings are suggested:
SUGGESTED READING
S.No. Title Author
1. The basics Literary Theory. (Second Bertens, H. (2008).
edition). Routledge.
2. Literary Theory: An Eagleton, E. (2008).
Introduction. (Anniversary
Edition).
3. A New Handbook of Literary Terms. Mikics, W. (2007).

4. A Companion to Twentieth Century Roberts, N. (2003).


Poetry.
5. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Selden, R., Widdowson,
Literary Theory. (Fifth edition). P., & Brooker, P. (2005)
6. Twentieth Century British Drama. Smart, J. (2001).
7. Modern Critical Views & Harold Bloom (these
Interpretations, ed: 80’s and 90’sinclude all range of
editions. authors and their works
given above)
8. A Companion to 20th Century Drama Krasner David. 2005.
Oxford: Blackwell.

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