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SYLLABUS FOR SCREENING TEST FOR THE POST OF LECTURER ENGLISH, COLLEGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Unit I :
Structure of English Language and its Usage
1 2 3 4 5 6 Analysis of Sentence Patterns and Structure of Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase and Preposition Phrase Tense (Aspect, Voice), Conditionals, Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives Primary and Modal Auxiliaries Phrasal Verbs Classification and description of R.P. Consonant and Vowel Sounds, Word - Stress, Phonetic Transcription Comprehension of a literary text, Appreciation and analysis of a poem

Unit II :
Drama :1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Webster Marlowe Shakespeare Sheridan Shaw Beckett Pinter Eliot Miller : : : : : : : : : Duchess of Malfi Dr. Faustus Hamlet, As you like it The School for Scandal Arms and the Man Waiting for Godot The Birthday Party Murder in the Cathedral Death of a Salesman

Unit III :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Milton Donne Pope Gray Wordsworth Coleridge Shelley Keats Tennyson Eliot Yeats Hopkins Frost Dickinson Ezekiel Naidu Ramanujan Kamala Das : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Paradise Lost Books I and IX The Flea, Good Morrow, Canonization, Extasie, A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning The Rape of the Lock Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Daffodils, Tintern Abbey The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Ode to the West Wind Ode to Nightingale Ulysses The Waste Land Sailing to Byzantium Spring and Fall, Pied Beauty Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening I felt a funeral in my brain, Because I could not stop for death Night of the Scorpion, Enterprise Palanquin Bearers, The Souls Prayer A River The Dance of Eunuchs

Unit IV
1 2 3 4 5 6 Dickens Hardy Hawthorne Lawrence Joyce Twain : : : : : : Great Expectations Tess of the Durbervilles The Scarlet Letter Sons and Lovers A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Morrison Narayan Desai Roy Rushdie Chinua Achebe Atwood White

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The Bluest Eye Man-Eater of Malgudi Cry, the Peacock The God of Small Things Midnights Children Things Fall Apart Surfacing The Tree of Man

Unit V Prose
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Bacon Addison Lamb Hazlitt Huxley Russel Lucas Chesterton Snow Forster Orwell Shaw Nehru : : : : : : : : : : : : : Of Studies, Of Adversity Sir Roger in Church, Meditations on Westminister Abbey Dream Children : A Reverie, In Praise of Chimney Sweepers Indian Jugglers Pleasures Fear of Public Opinion Third Thoughts On the pleasure of no longer being young The Two Cultures What I Believe Shooting an Elephant On Freedom Tryst with Destiny (Speech)

Unit VI Literary Theory and Criticism :

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Aristotle Dryden Wordsworth Arnold Eliot Richards Frye Derrida Showalter Said Rushdie : : : : : : : : : : : Poetics An Essay on Dramatic Poesy Preface to Lyrical Ballads The Study of Poetry Tradition and the Individual Talent Principles of Literary Criticism Archetypal Criticism Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences Introduction from Towards a Feminist Poetics Crisis from Orientalism Introduction from Imaginary Homelands

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Pattern of Question Papers :

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Objective Type Paper. Maximum Marks : 100 Number of Questions : 100 Duration of Paper : Two Hours. All Questions carry equal marks. There will be Negative Marking for wrong answer.

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