MA English Entrance Syllabus – CUET PG LAQP01

MA English Entrance Syllabus – CUET PG LAQP01

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MA English Entrance Course Part – 1 (Anglo Saxons to Elizabethan Age)

Bible Translations

  • Bible Translations Part I (From Early ages till Medieval Period)
  • Bible Translations Part II (Renaissance to Late Renaissance Period)

Anglo Saxons Age and Literature

  • Introduction to Anglo Saxons Age
  • Background of Anglo Saxons Age
  • Timeline and Kingdoms of Anglo Saxons Age
  • Literature, Genres and Manuscripts Of Anglo Saxons Period
  • Major Writers and Works of Old English Literature

Anglo Norman Age and Literature

  • Introduction and Background of Anglo Norman Age
  • Timeline of England’s Dynasties (From 1066 – 1485)
  • Anglo Norman Literary Cycles and Matter
  • Early writers of Anglo Norman Period
  • Major writers and works of Anglo Norman Period

Medieval English Literature

  • Background of English Medieval Period
  • The Black Death, The Hundred Years’ War and The Peasants’ Revolt
  • The Church, Feudalism and Chivalry
  • The Great Chain of Being, Wheels of Fortune and Black Death
  • Arthurian Legends and Chivalric Romances
  • Religious Vs. Secular Medieval Writings (Romance, Travelogues, Religion and other works)

Medieval English Writers

  • John Wycliffe and Lollards Movement
  • William langland and Dream Vision Genre
  • The Pearl Poet and the Alliterative Revival
  • John Gower – English, French and Latin works
  • Early female writings: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Christine de Pizan

Chaucer and 14th Century Literature

  • Geoffrey Chaucer’s life, background and other details
  • Early works of Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Major works of Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Short Poems, translations and Prose by Chaucer
  • Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue and Tales

Italian Renaissance Age Background and Highlights

  • Black Death and The Beginning of Renaissance
  • Italian Renaissance background, movement and history
  • Study of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio’s works
  • Italian Renaissance – Study of art and architecture
  • Famous Italian Renaissance Paintings, Music and Literature

Age of Revival and 15th Century Literature

  • Socio-Political, Literary and Religious Background
  • Literary barrenness and Emergence of English Chaucerians
  • The works of Scottish Literature and Scottish Chaucerians
  • Ballads and Other Literature in the 15th Century
  • Prose Works of the 15th Century
  • Sir Thomas Malory and Arthurian Romances

Emergence of Drama – From Medieval to Early Renaissance Period

  • Early Medieval Drama – Liturgical plays, themes and examples
  • Medieval English drama vs. Ancient Classical Drama
  • Pageants, Tropes, Music and Famous Biblical Episodes
  • Medieval Drama Cycles: Study of Miracle, Mystery and Morality Plays
  • Emergence of Interludes, Secular Drama and Drama of Early Renaissance Period

16th Century Age and Literature

  • Religion, Society and Politics of Tudor Age
  • The timeline of Tudor Dynasty
  • The Major Plots and Rebellions of the Elizabethan Era
  • Detailed Study of Elizabethan England
  • Timeline of Elizabethan Theatres
  • War of the Theatres: Writers and Works
  • The Early Tudor Poets: Henry Howard, Thomas Wyatt, John Skelton and others
  • Elizabethan Age Poets: Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Campion, Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel and others
  • The Emergence of University Wits: Detailed study of the works of John Lyly, Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe
  • Other drama of the 16th century: George Gascoigne, Nicholas Udall, Thomas Norton and Sackville and other dramatists
  • Prose works: Roger Ascham, John Foxe, Michael Drayton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Richard Hooker and others
  • William Shakespeare’s Life and Works:
    • Detailed study of Shakespeare’s Plays, Poems and Sonnets
    • Major sources of Shakespeare’s plays
    • List of Major characters, themes, settings and literary techniques
    • Important quotations from Shakespeare’s works
    • Timeline of Shakespeare’s Plays, movie and other
    • Literary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays
    • Postcolonial reading of Shakespeare’s plays 

MA English Entrance Course Part – 2 (17th and 18th Century Literature)

Jacobean Age Literature

  • Religion, Society and Politics of the Jacobean Period
  • Elizabethan to Jacobean Age Theatres and Drama
  • Detailed study of Ben Jonson’s Works
  • The plays of Thomas Middleton and City Comedies
  • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Individual and collaborative plays)
  • Thomas Heywood’s plays and other domestic tragedies
  • John Ford – Jacobean and Caroline Plays
  • The plays of Thomas Dekker, Philip Massinger, George Chapman and others
  • Revenge Tragedies of the Jacobean Period: the plays of Cyril Tourneur, John Marston, John Webster and others
  • The Spenserians: Jacobean poets like Michael Drayton, Phineas Fletcher, George Wither, Giles Fletcher
  • The Metaphysical Poets: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley

Caroline Age Literature

  • The history and timeline of the Caroline Period
  • Study of the English Civil War, The Thirty Years’ War etc.
  • Difference between Metaphysical and Caroline Poetry
  • The Caroline Age Poets: Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling and other poets
  • Caroline Drama and Dramatists

Puritan Age: Politics, Society and Literature

  • The history of the English Parliament and the English Civil War
  • The theory of the Divine Right of Kings
  • Oliver Cromwell and the rule of the Puritans
  • Detailed study of John Milton’s works
  • The works of Izaak Walton, Richard Baxter, Jeremy Taylor and others
  • Cambridge Platonists

Restoration Age Literature

  • The study of Restoration Age Politics, Society and Theatres
  • The Royal Society, Acts and major plots and revolutions
  • Timeline of the Restoration age monarchs
  • Difference between Elizabethan and Restoration Theatres
  • Restoration Comedies: Plays of George Etherege, William Wycherley, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar and William Congreve
  • The Works of Aphra Behn
  • The Works of John Dryden and Sir William Davenant
  • The works of John Bunyan, Samuel Butler, Thomas Otway, Samuel Pepys and others
  • Jeremy Collier and anti-theatre pamphlets

18th Century Age and Literature

  • The Augustan Age: History, timeline and Literature
  • Major Characteristics of the Neoclassical Literature
  • Enlightenment Age: Theory, Features and Writers
  • Journals, Magazines, Pamphlets and Essays
  • Works of Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Richard Steel
  • Works of Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Samuel Pepys, Edward Gibbon and others
  • The Rise of the Novel as a Genre: study of different forms of novels, precursor to novel genre and the 18th Century Novels
  • The writings of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson and others
  • The writings of Henry Mackenzie, Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne
  • Maria Edgeworth and other female writers: Fanny Burney, Eliza Heywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Margaret Cavendish, Delarivier Manley and others
  • The Age of Samuel Johnson: Detailed study of Samuel Johnson’s Works
  • The 18th Century Poets: James Thomson, John Dyer, Robert Blair, William Cowper, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith and others
  • The works of Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, J. J. Rousseau, Richard Sheridan, Thomas Percy and others
  • The Rise of the Gothic Novels and famous Gothic works from 18th century to Romanticism Period
  • The 18th Century British Children’s Literature

MA English Entrance Course Part – 3 (19th Century Literature)

19th Century Literature – The Romantic Period

  • The Romantic Period: History, timeline and Literature
  • French Revolution: background and history
  • Sturm und Drang Movement and German Romanticism
  • The Pre-Romantic and Graveyard Poets – Thomas Parnell, Robert Blair, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, Thomas Percy, Thomas Warton, William Cowper, Christopher Smart, Thomas Gray and Oliver Goldsmith
  • Pre-Romantic Poetry of Robert Burns, George Crabbe and James Thomson
  • The First Generation Romantic Poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats
  • Poetry of Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Thomas Campbell and Walter Scott
  • The novels of Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley and others
  • Prose writings of Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, William Hazlitt and Thomas De Quincey

19th Century Literature – The Victorian Period

  • Victorian Age – timeline, culture and history
  • Victorian age Realism, Utilitarianism, Industrialization and Victorian patriarchy
  • The Early Victorian Age Writings
  • Fin de Siecle and the late Victorian Age Writings
  • Pre-Raphaelite, Aestheticism, Decadence, Realism, Impressionism and other literary and artistic Movements 
  • Victorian Poetry – Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Rossettis, Matthew Arnold, William Morris, G. M. Hopkins, Arthur Hugh Clough, Lewis Carroll and A. C. Swinburne.
  • Female Novelists of Victorian Era – the Bronte Sisters, George Eliot and                                                                             Elizabeth Gaskell
  • The Realistic Novels and the writings of Charles Dickens, Balzac and George Eliot
  • The Bildungsroman Novels: Goethe, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and others
  • Thomas Hardy and the Regional Novels
  • Benjamin Disraeli and the Political Novels
  • William Makepeace Thackeray and the Satirical Novels
  • Detective Fiction – Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie and others
  • H. G. wells and the Science Fiction
  • Modern Fantasy Novels – works of Lewis Carroll, George Macdonald, John Ruskin and others 
  • Novels of George Meredith, Anthony Trollope, Samuel Butler, George Gissing, William Morris, George Moore, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Reade, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Charles Kingsley, William Harrison Ainsworth, R. D. Blackmore and 
  • Works of J. S. Mill, Mary Wollstonecarft, Charles Darwin, Macaulay, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Thomas Carlyle, Herbert Spencer  and others

19th Century Literature – French Authors

  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Arthur Rimbaud
  • Paul Verlaine
  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon
  • Sully Prudhomme
  • Gustave Flaubert
  •  Emily Zola
  • Jules Verne
  • Victor Hugo
  • Honore de Balzac
  • Stendhal
  • Alexander Dumas
  • Stephen Mallarme
  • Alfred Jarry
  • Jules Michelet
  • Alexis de Tocqueville

19th Century Literature – Russian Authors

  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Nikolai Gogol
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Ivan Turgenev
  • Mikhail Lermonto

19th Century Literature – American Authors

  • Mark Twain
  • Henry James
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Walt Whitman
  • Kate Chopin
  • Washington Irving
  • Herman Melville
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Margaret Fuller
  • John Muir
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Stephen Crane
  • James Cooper
  • Frederick Douglass

MA English Entrance Course Part – 4 (Modernism to Contemporary Period Literature)

Modernism to Contemporary

  • Detailed study of Modernism and Post – Modernism Age
  • Timeline of important events
  • 20th Century Literary and Artistic Movements
  • The First World War and Literature
  • The Second World War and Literature
  • Theatre of Absurd and other popular drama
  • Popular genres and Narrative Techniques
  • The British Empire – Imperialism, Colonialism and Post Colonialism
  • Postcolonial Writings and Contemporary Literature
  • World Literature – British Literature, American Literature, African and other Literature
  • Detailed study of Commonwealth Literature

British Literature Novelists

  • Joseph Conrad
  • D. H. Lawrence
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Aldous Huxley
  • George Orwell
  • William Golding
  • Kingsley Amis
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • C. S. Lewis
  • E. M. Forster
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Dame Agatha Christie
  • Arnold Bennett
  • Evelyn Waugh
  • G. K. Chesterton
  • Graham Greene
  • Iris Murdoch
  • J. G. Ballard
  • J. G. Farrell
  • J. K. Rowling
  • John Galsworthy
  • Ford Madox Ford
  • Daphne du Maurier
  • William Somerset Maugham
  • Richard Aldington
  • Radclyffe Hall
  • Angela Carter
  • Anthony Powell
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Anthony Burgess
  • John Fowles
  • Patrick O’Brian
  • Muriel Spark
  • Peter Ackroyd
  • A S. Byatt
  • Zadie Smith
  • Tim Parks
  • David Lodge
  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Margaret Drabble
  • Monica Ali
  • Hilary Mantel

Irish Novelists

  • James Joyce
  • John Banville
  • J. G. Farrell
  • Colm Toibin
  • John McGahern
  • Paul Lynch
  • Edna O’Brien
  • Patrick Kavanagh

Scottish Novelists

  • Ian Macpherson
  • Edwin Muir
  • Jackie Kay
  • Muriel Spark
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Ali Smith

American Novelists

  • O. Henry
  • John Updike
  • Mark Twain
  • William Faulkner
  • Gertrude Stein
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • John Steinbeck
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • J. D. Salinger
  • Harper Lee
  • Alice Walker
  • Toni Morrison
  • Richard Wright
  • Kathy Acker
  • Sherwood Anderson
  • Margaret Mitchell
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • David Foster Wallace
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Edith Wharton
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Amiri Baraka
  • Tim O’Brien

Modernism to Contemporary Poets

  • T. S. Eliot
  • Ezra Pound
  • W. B. Yeats
  • Rupert Brooke
  • Siegfried Sassoon
  • Wilfred Owen
  • David Jones
  • Issac Rosenberg
  • Robert Graves
  • John McCrae
  • W. H. Auden
  • Stephen Spender
  • Louis Macniece
  • Cecil Day Lewis
  • Christopher Isherwood
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Seamus Heaney
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Philip Larkin
  • Ted Hughes
  • Thom Gunn
  • Roald Dahl
  • Denise Levertov
  • John Masefield

American Poets

  • Ezra Pound
  • Robert Frost
  • Allen Tate
  • Wallace Stevens
  • Robert Lowell
  • Hilda Doolittle
  • E. E. Cummings
  • Sylvia Plath
  • William Carlos Williams
  • Langston Hughes
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Anne Sexton
  • Maya Angelou
  • Louise Gluck
  • Amy Lowell
  • Frank O’Hara

Modernism to Contemporary Dramatists

  • Rodney Ackland
  • Oscar Wilde
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • J. M. Synge
    Sean O’Casey
  • W. B. Yeats
  • John Galsworthy
  • Arnold Wesker
  • John Osborne
  • Henrik Ibsen
  • August Strindberg
  • Dario Fo
  • John Arden
  • J. M. Berrie
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • David Hare

Theatre of Absurd Forerunners and Main Writers

  • Alfred Jarry
  • Luigi Pirandello
  • Antonin Artaud
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Jean Paul Sartre
  • Martin Esslin
  • Marcel Proust
  • Franz Kafka
  • Albert Camus
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Eugene Ionesco
  • Harold Pinter
  • Jean Genet
  • Edward Albee
  • Arthur Adamov
  • Tom Stoppard
  • Thomas Mann

American Dramatists

  • Eugene O’Neill
  • Tennessee Willaims
  • Arthur Miller
  • Edward Albee
  • George Kaufman
  • August Wilson
  • John Patrick Shanley
  • Maya Angelou
  • Philip Barry
  • Amiri Baraka

Other Literature

  • Australian, Canadian, Caribbean, African, New Zealand, Spanish, Latin American and other Literature

Caribbean Literature Authors

  • Jean Rhys
  • George Lamming
  • V. S. Naipaul
  • Derek Walcott
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • Clair Adam
  • Naomi Jackson

African Literature Authors

  • Chinua Achebe
  • Ngugi wa Thiongo
  • Wole Soyinka
  • Doris Lessing
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • J. M. Coetzee
  • Ben Okri
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Roy Campbell

Canadian Literature Authors

  • Margaret Atwood
  • Alice Munro
  • Margaret Laurence
  • Joseph Boyden
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Ian Adams
  • Yann Martel
  • Thomas King
  • Rohinton Mistry
  • Ralph Allen

Antipodean (Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Islands) and Other Literature

  • Patrick White
  • David Malouf
  • John Brimingham
  • Peter Carey
  • Miles Franklin
  • Katherine Mansfield
  • Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Murasaki Shikibu
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Pablo Neruda
  • Gabriela Mistral
  • Paulo Coelho
  • Alejo Carpentier

Russian, French and German Authors

  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Boris Pasternak
  • Alexander Goldstein
  • Michel Foucault
  • Claude Levi – Strauss
  • Jean Genet
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Albert Camus
  • Jean – Paul Sartre
  • Antonin Artaud
  • Marcel Proust
  • Aime Cesaire
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Theodor Adorno
  • Gunter Grass
  • Thomas Mann

MA English Entrance Course Part – 5 (Indian English Literature)

Indian Fiction Author

  • Premchand
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
  • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  • Shrilal Shukla
  • U. R. Anantha Murthy
  • R. K. Narayan
  • Mulk Raj Anand
  • Raja Rao
  • Ruskin Bond
  • Rohinton Mistry
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Amitav Ghosh
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Kamala Markandeya
  • Attia Hosain
  • G. V. Desani
  • Vikram Seth
  • Anita Desai
  • Kiran Desai
  • Meenakshi Mukherjee
  • Bharati Mukherjee
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Arundhati Roy
  • Meera Syal
  • Nirad C. Chaudhari
  • Amit Chaudhuri
  • Kamala Markandaya
  • Attia Hosain
  • Hanif Kureishi
  • Aravind Adiga
  • Meena Alexander
  • Amrita Pritam
  • Shashi Tharoor
  • Khushwant Singh
  • Attia Hosain
  • Chaman Nahal
  • Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Pandita Ramabai
  • Mukta Salve
  • Jyotirao Phule
  • Savitribai Phule
  • Tarabai Shinde
  • B. R. Ambedkar
  • E. V. Ramaswamy
  • Omprakash Valmiki
  • Meena Kandasamy
  • Babytai Kamble
  • Bama
  • Baburao Bagul
  • Daya Pawar
  • Narendra Jadhav

Indian Dramatists

  • Harishchandra
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
  • Gurcharan Das
  • Vijay Tendulkar
  • Girish Karnad
  • Badal Sircar
  • Mahesh Dattani
  • Mohan Rakesh
  • Habib Tanvir
  • Utpal Dutt
  • Mahasweta Devi
  • Manjula Padmanabhan
  • Cyrus Mistry

Indian Poets

  • Sarojini Naidu
  • Sri Aurobindo
  • Henry Derozio
  • Michael Madhusudan Dutt
  • Toru Dutt
  • Kashiprasad Ghosh
  • A. K. Ramanujan
  • P. Lal
  • Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
  • R. Parthasarathy
  • Nissim Ezekiel
  • Jayant Mahapatra
  • Arun Kolatkar
  • Dilip Chitre
  • Eunice de Souza
  • Keki Daruwalla
  • Manohar Shetty
  • Ranjit Hoskote
  • Kamala Das
  • Adil Jussawala
  • Namdeo Dhasal
  • Agha Shahid Ali
  • Dom Moraes

MA English Entrance Course Part – 6 (Comparative & Linguistics)

  • Ancient Greek and Latin Literature
  • Classical Indian Drama
  • Study of Indian English Language
  • Translation Studies
  • Comparative Literature Studies
  • Linguistics – basic studies, terms and important highlights

MA English Entrance Course Part – 7 (Literary Theory and Criticism)

  • Literary Theory and Literary Criticism
  • Contemporary Literary Theory
  • Literary and Artistic Movements
  • List of Major Awards and Prizes
  • List of Literary Devices and Literary Terms
  • Reading Poetry – Lyric Poetry, The Sonnet, The Elegy, The Ode, Satire, Prosody etc.
  • Reading Comprehension (Prose and Poetry)

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