UGC NET Syllabus(Main Topics) Second Paper

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UGC NET Syllabus






1. Drama 


British Drama: 


1. Medieval Drama: 

  • Everyman (Anonymous)
  • The Second Shepherd’s Play (Wakefield Cycle)  


2. Renaissance Drama:

  •  Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe  
  • Tamburlaine by Marlowe  
  • Volpone by Ben Jonson  
  •   Hamlet,
  •  King Lear,
  •  Macbeth,
  •  Othello, 
  • The Tempest
  •  by William Shakespeare  


3. Restoration Drama:

  •  The Way of the World by William Congreve  
  •    The Rover by Aphra Behn  
  •   The Country Wife by William Wycherley  


4. 18th-Century Drama: 

  •  She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith  
  • The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan  


5. Modern British Drama:

  •   Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  
  •   Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett  
  •  The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter  
  •   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard  




American Drama 

1. The Crucible and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller  

2. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams  

3. Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill  




Postcolonial Drama:

1. Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka  

2. Tughlaq by Girish Karnad  

3. Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan  



2. Poetry  


British Poetry 


1. Medieval:

   - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer  

2. Renaissance:

  •    The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser  
  •  Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney  
  •   OpShakespeare's Sonnets  

3. Metaphysical Poets:

  •     The Flea 
  • A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne  
  •   The Collar by George Herbert  

4. Neo-Classical Poetry:

  •    Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden  
  •  The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope  

5. Romantic Poetry:

  •  Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge  
  •    Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats  
  •    Ode to the West Wind by P.B. Shelley  

6. Victorian Poetry:

  •    In Memoriam by Tennyson  
  •    My Last Duchess by Robert Browning  
  •    Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold  

7. Modern Poetry:

  •    The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats  
  •    The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot  
  •    Musée des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden  

American Poetry:

1. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman  

2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson  

3. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost  

4. Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath  



Indian English Poetry: 

1. Sita by Toru Dutt  

2. Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel  

3. An Introduction by Kamala Das  

3. Fiction  

British Fiction:

  •   Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe  
  • Pamela by Samuel Richardson  
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë  
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë  
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens  
  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy  
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf  
  • Ulysses by James Joyce  

American Fiction  

  •  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville  
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner  
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison  


Postcolonial Fiction: 

  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe  
  • A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o  
  • Swami and Friends by R.K. Narayan  
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy  

4. Short Stories:

  •  The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant  
  •  The Lottery by Shirley Jackson  
  •  A Horse and Two Goats by R.K. Narayan  
  • The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman  

5. Literary Criticism and Theory: 

  •  Aristotle’s "Poetics"
  • Longinus’ On the Sublime 
  •  Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge  
  •  The Function of Criticism by Matthew Arnold  
  •  T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent 
  •  Derrida’s Of Grammatology 
  • Edward Said’s Orientalism  
  •  Elaine Showalter’s A Literature of Their Own

6. Non-Fictional Prose:

  •  Francis Bacon’s Essays (Of Studies, Of Truth)
  • Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson  
  • Gandhi’s My Experiments with Truth 

7. Language and Linguistics 

  •  A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh  
  • The Study of Language by George Yule  

8. Literary Movements and Periods

  •  Renaissance: Hamlet, Dr. Faustus
  •  Romanticism: Lyrical Ballads
  •  Victorian: In Memoriam, Great Expectations  
  •  Modernism: The Waste Land, To the Lighthouse 

9. Indian Writing in English: 

  •  Kanthapura by Raja Rao  
  •  The Guide by R.K. Narayan  
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie  



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