Preparation for NET/JRF English - 2

An Overview of what you’ve got to focus on!

Outline to NET/JRF English – Papers II & III - Syllabus January 2017

English Paper II

Unit 1   : Chaucer to Shakespeare

Unit 2  : Jacobean to Restoration Periods

Unit 3  : Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature

Unit 4  : Romantic Period

Unit 5  : Victorian Period

Unit 6  : Modern Period

Unit 7  : Contemporary Period

Unit 8  : American and other non – British Literatures

Unit 9  : Literary Theory and Criticism

Unit 10 : Rhetoric and Prosody

English Paper III ( A ) ( Core Group )

v  British Literature from Chaucer to the present day

v  Criticism and Literary Theory.

Unit – I               : Literary Comprehension. (with internal choice of poetry stanza and prose

passage; four comprehension questions will be asked carrying 4 marks each)

Unit – II             : Up to the Renaissance.

Unit – III           : Jacobean to Restoration Periods.

Unit – IV            : Augustan Age 18th Century Literature.

Unit – V             : Romantic Period.

Unit – VI            : Victorian and Pre – Raphaelites.

Unit – VII          : Modem British Literature.

Unit – VIII         : Contemporary British Literature.

Unit – IX            : Literary Theory and Criticism up to T. S. Eliot.

Unit – X             : Contemporary Theory.

English Paper III ( B ) ( Elective / Optional )

Elective – I       : History of English Language, English Language Teaching.

Elective – II     : European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century.

Elective – III    : Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation.

Elective – IV    : American and other non – British English Literatures.

Elective – V      : Literary Theory and Criticism.

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