HUSAINI ACADEMY’S STUDY MATERIAL: UNIT WISE CONTENTS · George Ryga 2. James Reaney 3. George F. Walker 4. Allison Mcwood 5. Marie Clements 6. Gratien Gélinas 7. Judith Thompson

HUSAINI ACADEMY NTA/UGC NET: ENGLISH LITERATURE

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HUSAINI ACADEMY’S STUDY MATERIAL: UNIT WISE CONTENTS

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UNIT I- DRAMA

1. Definition Of Drama

2. Different Types And Forms Of Drama

3. Expressionist Drama

4. Closet Drama

5. Drama Of Ideas


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6. History Play

7. Tragedy

8. Comedy

9. Types Of Tragedy

10. Types Of Comedy

11. Poetic Drama

12. Historical Perspective Of Drama

13. The Greek Drama

14. Drama And The Christian Church

15. Miracle And Mystery Plays

16. Moralities And Interludes

17. English Drama And The Renaissance

18. The Romantic Drama Of The Elizabethan Age

19. The Elizabethan Theatre

20. The University Wits

21. Jacobean Drama

22. Restoration Drama

23. Epic Theatre

24. Theatre Of The Absurd

25. Kitchen Sink Realism

26. Drama of Protest

27. Modern Poetic Drama

STUDY OF MAJOR DRAMATISTS AND THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS

1. EUROPEAN/BRITISH DRAMATISTS

1. Christopher Marlowe

2. William Shakespeare

3. William Congreve

4. Aphra Behn

5. John Webster


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6. Thomas Dekker

7. Oliver Goldsmith

8. George Bernard Shaw

9. T. S. Eliot

10. Samuel Becket

11. John Osborne

12. Tom Stoppard

13. Christopher Fry

14. Luigi Pirandello

15. John Millington Synge

16. W. B. Yeats

17. Noel Coward

18. Sarah Kane

19. Caryl Churchill

20. Alan Ayckbourn

21. David Hare

22. Edward Bond

23. Alan Bennett

24. Arnold Wesker

25. John Arden

26. Robert Bolt

27. J. B. Priestley

28. John Galsworthy

29. Jim Allen

30. Graham Greene

31. David Storey

32. William Somerset Maugham

2. AMERICAN DRAMA

1. Elbert Albee

2. Arthur Miller

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3. Eugene O’Neill

4. Tennessee Williams

5. David Henry Hwang

6. Marsha Norman

7. Sam Shepard

8. David Mamet

9. August Wilson

10. Lorainne Hansbury

11. Tony Kushner

12. Christopher Dorang

13. Moss Hart

14. Langston Hughes

15. David Rabe

16. David Henry Hwang

17. William Dunlap

18. Philip Barry

19. Neil Simon

20. Thornton Wilder

3. CANADIAN DRAMA

1. George Ryga

2. James Reaney

3. George F. Walker

4. Allison Mcwood

5. Marie Clements

6. Gratien Gélinas

7. Judith Thompson

8. Brad Fraser

9. Robert Lepage

10. David French


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4. RUSSIAN DRAMA

1. Anton Chekhov

2. Vladimir Nabokov

3. Leo Tolstoy

4. Alexander Ostrovsky

5. Alexander Pushkin

5. AUSTRALIAN DRAMA

1. David Williamson

2. Jack Davis

3. Alma De Groen

4. Peter Kenna

5. Patrick White

6. Dorothy Hewett

7. Bille Brown

8. Nick Enright

9. Gwen Meredith

10. Hal Porter

11. Jim McNeil

12. Jennifer Rankin

13. Kylie Tennant

14. Bob Maza

15. Peter Kenna

16. Alec Coppel

17. Richard Davey

18. Frank Bren

19. Rod Milgate

20. Max Afford

21. George Darrell

22. Alan Seymour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov


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23. Michael Gurr

24. Oriel Gray

25. David Malouf

6. AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN DRAMA

1. Femi Osofisan

2. Wole Soyinka

3. Athol Fugard

4. Trevor Dave Rhone

5. Nuruddin Farah

6. Derek Walcott

7. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

UNIT II– POETRY

1. BRITISH/EUROPEAN POETRY

1. Definition Of Poetry

2. Types And Forms Of Poetry

3. Geoffrey Chaucer

4. Edmund Spenser

5. John Donne

6. Andrew Marvell

7. Augustan Verse Satire

8. Alexander Pope

9. John Dryden

10. John Milton

11. Thomas Hardy

12. Thomas Grey

13. John Keats


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14. William Blake

15. William Wordsworth

16. S. T. Coleridge

17. P. B. Shelley

18. Robert Browning

19. Elizabeth Barret Browning

20. Robert Bridges

21. D. G. Rossetti

22. Robert Burns

23. Rupert Brooke

24. D. H. Lawrence

25. John Clare

26. T. E. Hulme

27. Alfred Lord Tennyson

28. Matthew Arnold

29. Rudyard Kipling

30. Gerard Manley Hopkins

31. Georgian Poetry

32. Imagist Poetry

33. Symbolist Poetry

34. T. S. Eliot

35. W. B. Yeats

36. Poetry Of The 1930’s

37. Philip Larkin

38. W. H. Auden

39. Wilfred Owen

40. Stephen Spender

41. Walter de la Mare

42. Ted Hughes

43. Seamus Heaney

44. Kingsley Amis


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2. AMERICAN POETRY

1. Walt Whitman

2. Robert Frost

3. Emily Dickinson

4. Sylvia Plath

5. Wallace Stevens

6. J. M. Langston Hughes

7. Allen Ginsberg

8. Adrienne Rich

9. Wendy Rose

10. Maya Angelou

11. Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. William Carlos Williams\

13. Elizabeth Bishop

14. Gwendolyn Brooks

15. Langston Hughes

16. John Ashbery

17. Ezra Pound

18. Luis Alberto Ambroggio

19. E. E. Cummings

20. Marianne Moore

21. John Crowe Ransom

22. Randall Jarrell

23. James Merrill

24. Gertrude Stein

25. Robert Duncan

3. CANADIAN POETRY

1. Susanna Moodie

2. Dorothy Livesay


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3. L. Purdy

4. D. G. Jones

5. Uma Parameswaran

6. Margaret Atwood

7. Anne Szumigalski

8. Bliss Carman

9. William Wilfred Campbell

4. AUSTRALIAN POETRY

1. James Mcauley

2. Vincent Buckley

3. Peter Porter

4. Dorothy Porter

5. Kevin Hart

6. Les Murray

7. Banjo Paterson

8. Henry Lawson

9. Judith Wright

10. A. D. Hope

11. Kenneth Slessor

12. Bobbi Sykes

13. C. J. Dennis

14. Philip Hodgins

5. AFRICAN/CARIBBEAN POETRY

1. Gabriel Okara

2. Dennis Brutus

3. Edward Braithwaite

4. Derek Walcott

5. Wole Soyinka


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6. Mervyn Morris

UNIT III- FICTION AND SHORT STORIES

1. Forms And Techniques

2. Elements Of Novel

3. Elements Of Short Story

4. Picaresque Novel

5. Historical Novel

6. Gothic Novel

7. Epistolary Novel

8. Regional Novel

9. Dystopia

10. Detective Novel

11. Campus Fiction

12. Science Fiction

13. Space Fiction

14. Metafiction

15. Chic Lit

16. Junk Fiction

1. BRITISH/EUROPEAN/AFRICAN/CARIBBEAN/POST-COLONIAL FICTION

1. Henry Fielding

2. Daniel Defoe

3. Jonathan Swift

4. Thomas Hardy

5. Emile Bronte

6. Charlotte Bronte

7. Charles Dickens

8. James Joyce

9. Joseph Conrad


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10. D. H. Lawrence

11. Virginia Woolf

12. William Golding

13. Nathaniel Hawthorne

14. Anton Chekhov

15. Oscar Wilde

16. O. Henry

17. Leo Tolstoy

18. E. M. Forster

19. Katherine Mansfield

20. Evelyn Waugh

21. George Orwell

22. V. S. Naipaul

23. Chinua Achebe

24. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

25. Jean Rhys

26. Edwidge Danticat

2. AMERICAN FICTION

1. F. Scott. Fitzgerald

2. John Steinbeck

3. Toni Morrison

4. Elbert Albee

5. Saul Bellow

6. Mark Twain

7. Edgar Allan Poe

8. William Faulkner

9. Philip Roth

10. Herman Melville

11. Nathaniel Hawthorne

12. J. D. Salinger


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13. Saul Bellow

14. Henry James

15. Joseph Heller

16. John Updike

17. Ralph Ellison

18. James Baldwin

19. Kurt Vonnegut

20. Sinclair Lewis

3. CANADIAN FICTION

1. Margaret Atwood

2. Margaret Lawrence

3. Michael Ondaatje

4. Rohinton Mistry

5. David Williams

6. Austin Clarke

7. Robertson Davies

8. Matt Cohen (writer)

9. Timothy Findley

10. Marian Engel

11. Lucy Maud Montgomery

12. Carol Shields

4. AUSTRALIAN FICTION

1. Christina Stead

2. Randolf Stow

3. Thomas Keneally

4. Sally Morgan

5. Christopher Koch

6. Miles Franklin


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7. Ethel Turner

8. Patrick White

9. Bryce Courtenay

10. Peter Carey

UNIT IV- NON-FICTION

1. Autobiography

2. Biography

3. Memoir

4. Essays

5. Travelogue

6. Authorised Version Of The Bible

7. Periodical Essays

8. Francis Bacon

9. Joseph Addison

10. Charles Lamb

11. Richard Steele

12. Aldous Huxley

13. Matthew Arnold

14. Virginia Woolf

15. R. L. Stevenson

16. William Hazlitt

17. J. S. Mill

18. Walter Pater

19. John Ruskin

UNIT V- LANGUAGE BASIC CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND PEDAGOGY, ENGLISH IN USE

1. Language Acquisition & Language Learning

2. Theories Of Language Acquisition


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3. Language Learning & Teaching

4. Methods Of Teaching English

5. Grammar Translation Method

6. Direct Method

7. Communicative Language Teaching

8. Registers

9. Dialects

10. Features Of Some Register -Types In English

11. Language Variation

12. Varieties Of English

13. Languages In Contact

14. Prosody

15. Figures Of Speech

UNIT VI- ENGLISH IN INDIA, HISTORY AND EVOLUTION

1. Development of English Literature and English Language in Indian Context

2. Pre-Independence And Post-Independence Indian Literature In English

3. English Language Teaching in India

4. Dialects Of English In India

5. Future of English in India

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH: DRAMA, POETRY, FICTION/NONFICTION

1. Nissim Ezekiel

2. A. K. Ramanujan

3. Kamala Das

4. Jayanta Mahapatra

5. R. K. Narayan

6. Mulk Raj Anand

7. Manohar Malgonkar

8. Asif Currimbhoy


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9. K. N. Daruwala

10. Anita Desai

11. Girish Karnad

12. Ruskin Bond

13. Arun Kolatkar

14. Khushwant Singh

15. Toru Dutt

16. Mahesh Dattani

17. Henry Derozio

18. Mahatma Gandhi

19. Nirad C. Chaudhary

20. Sri Aurobindo

21. Jayant Mahapatra

22. Vikram Seth

23. Amitav Ghosh

24. Mahatma Gandhi

25. Rohinton Mistry

26. Salman Rushdie

27. Jhumpa Lahiri

28. Arundhati Roy

29. Kiran Desai

30. Rabindranath Tagore

31. Nayantara Sehgal

32. Shashi Tharoor

33. Aravinda Adiga

34. Amrita Pritam

35. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

36. Meena Kandasamy

37. Manju Kapur

38. Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

39. Kamla Bhasin


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40. Sunetra Gupta

41. Chitra Banerjee Divakurni

42. Bharati Mukherjee

43. Ismat Chughtai

44. Mahasweta Devi

45. Shobha De

46. Kamala Markandaya

47. Shashi Deshpande

48. Meena Alexander

UNIT VII– CULTURAL STUDIES

1. Origin And Definition Of Cultural Studies

2. Stuart Hall

3. Associated Concepts

4. Semiotics

5. Identity Politics

6. Intertextuality

7. Post-Marxism

8. Concept Of Power And Hegemony

9. Ethnography

10. Critical Race Theory

11. Language Game

12. Consumption And Production Of Discourses

13. Mass Culture

14. Metaphor

15. Multiculturalism

16. Structuralism And Post Structuralism

17. Post Industrial Society

18. Post Materialism

19. Post Humanism


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20. Communication Studies

21. Translation Studies

22. Subaltern Studies

23. Neo-Liberalism

24. Reflexivity

25. Rhizome

26. Simulacrum

27. Existentialism

28. Raymond Williams

29. Cultural Materialism

UNIT VIII - LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Aristotle: Poetics

2. Dr. Samuel Johnson

3. Sir Philip Sidney : An Apology For Poetry

4. John Dryden : An Essay Of Dramatic Poesie

5. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism

6. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

7. William Wordsworth: Preface To The Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads

8. Percy Bysshe Shelley

9. Matthew Arnold

10. Oscar Wilde

11. T. S. Eliot

12. Practical Criticism

13. I. A. Richards

14. Wimsatt And Beardsley: The Intentional Fallacy

15. The New Criticism

16. F. R. Leavis

17. Edward Said

18. Cleath Brooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Popehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecrafthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Womanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelleyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde


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19. Terry Eagleton

20. Simone de Beauvoir

21. Stanley Fish

22. Hélène Cixous

23. Edward Said

24. Elaine Showalter

25. Harold Bloom

26. Viktor Shklovsky

27. Ferdinand de Saussure

28. Sigmund Freud

29. M. H. Abrams

UNIT IX - LITERARY THEORY POST WORLD WAR II

1. Structuralism

2. Post-Structuralism

3. Reader-Response Theory

4. Post-Modernism

5. Historicism

6. New Historicism

7. Feminism

8. Apocalyptic Criticism

9. Absurdism

10. Existentialism

11. New Marxism

12. Colonialism And Post-Colonialism

13. Imperialism

14. Historicism

15. Queer Theory

16. Orientalism

17. Eco-Criticism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoirhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fishhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Cixoushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Saidhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Showalterhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloomhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shklovskyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussurehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freudhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._H._Abrams


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18. Eco-Feminism

UNIT X - RESEARCH METHODS AND MATERIAL IN ENGLISH

1. Qualitative Research

2. Quantitative Research

3. Non-Empirical Research

4. Research Ethics

5. Research Acumen

6. Academic Publishing

7. Position Paper

8. Term Paper

9. Thesis

10. Seminar

11. Academic Conference

12. Workshop

13. Symposium

14. Colloquium

15. Research Paper

16. Journals

17. Bibliography And Citation

18. Plagiarism

19. Libraries: Their Role And Importance

20. The Central Catalogue

21. Reference Books

22. Primary And Secondary Sources

23. Quoting Sources 24. Modern Language Association (MLA)

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HUSAINI ACADEMY’S STUDY MATERIAL: UNIT WISE CONTENTS · George Ryga 2. James Reaney 3. George F. Walker 4. Allison Mcwood 5. Marie Clements 6. Gratien Gélinas 7. Judith Thompson