Syllabus of NET/SET/Asst. Professor Course

Class 11

Renaissance, General Info about University Wits

1

Class 12

Christopher Marlow

1

Class 13

Elizabethan Theatres, John Lyly, Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd

1

Class 14

Edmund Spenser, Various forms of stanzas in a Verse, Figures of Speech

1

Class 15

Sir Philip Sydney, Thomas Dekker, War of Theatres, George Puttenham

2

Jacobean Period

Class 16

History of Jacobean Age, Ben Johnson

1

Class 17

John Webster, Thomas Middleton, John ford, George Chapman

1

Class 18

General Info about Shakespeare, Plays and Folios of Shakespeare,  Bollywood movies based on plays of Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, Problem Play, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor

1

Class 19

Titles of work taken from Plays of  Shakespeare, Two Gentleman of Verona, Taming of the Shrew, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night or What You Will, The Winter’s tale, The Tempest

1

Class 20

Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Crossing Dressing in the Plays of Shakespeare

1

Class 21

Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens

1

Class 22

King John, Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, Richard III, Henry VIII

1

Class 23

Sonnets of Shakespeare, Francis Bacon

1

Caroline Age

Class 24

History of Caroline Age, Cavalier Poets, Metaphysical Poets

1

Class 25

Cavalier Poets in Detail, Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, John Suckling, Thomas Crew, Metaphysical Poets, John Donne

1

Class 26

Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, Types of Odes, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan

2

Restoration Period

Class 27

History of Restoration Period, John Dryden

1

Class 28

John Milton

1

Class 29

John Bunyan

1

Class 30

William Wycherley, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh

1

Class 31

Great Vowel Shift, Samuel Pepys, Other Diarists, Aphra Behn, Samuel Butler, Thomas Hobbes, Izaak Walton, George Farquhar

1

Augustan Age

Class 32

History of Augustan Age, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe

1

Class 33

Alexander Pope

1

Class 34

Jonathan Swift

1

Class 35

Graveyard Poets, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Parnell, Edward Young, William Cowper, Thomas Gray

1

Class 36

Evolution of Novel , Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson

1

Age of Johnson

Class 37

Dr. Samuel Johnson

1

Class 38

Robert Burnes, Fanny Burney, Colley Cibber, Thomas Parnell, Mathew Prior, John Gay

1

Class 39

Edmund Burke, French Revolution, Edward Gibbon, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Thomas Chatterton, Thomas Percy, James Thomson

1

Class 40

William Blake

1

Class 41

R B Sheridan, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin

1

Romantic Age

Class 42

History of Romantic Age, William Wordsworth

1

Class 43

ST Coleridge

1

Class 44

Robert Southey, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott

1

Class 45

John Keats, PB Shelley

1

Class 46

Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock

1

Class 47

Thomas De Quincy, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Periodicals of Romantic Age

1

Victorian Age

Class 48

History of Victorian Age, Samuel Butler (Novelist)

1

Class 49

Mathew Arnold

1

Class 50

Charles Dickens

1

Class 51

Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte

1

Class 52

Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning

1

Class 53

George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater

1

Class 54

Thomas Hardy

1

Class 55

DG Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Lewis Carol, Arthur Canon Doyle

1

Class 56

John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, WM Thackeray, AC Swinburne

1

Class 57

GM Hopkins, Jeremy Bentham, JS Mill, John Henry Newman, William Morris, Oxford Movement

1

Modern Age

Class 58

History of Modern Age, Rudyard Kipling

1

Class 59

TS Eliot

1

Class 60

Oxford Poets, WH Auden, Stephan Spender, Cecil Dy Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Harold Pinter, Comedy of Menace, Theatre of the Absurd

1

Class 61

WB Yeats, Luigi Pirandello

1

Class 62

Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster

1

Class 63

Georgian Poets, War Poets, Robert Graves, Walter De La Mare, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, DH Lawrence

1

Class 64

James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Henry James

1

Class 65

HG Wells, Somerset Mugham, Sean O Casey, Arnold Bennet, Galsworthy, Dylan Thomas, JM Synge

1

Class 66

George Bernard Shaw, Isherwood Graham Greene, John Drinkwater, Katherine Mansfield

1

Class 67

George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, GK Chesterton, JB Priestley, Dorothy Richardson and Lady Gregory

1

Post-Modern Age 

Class 68

History of Post-Modern Literature, Samuel Beckett, William Golding, John Osborne

1

Class 69

Muriel Spark, Laurence Durrell, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, David Lodge

1

Class 70

Salman Rushdie, Eugene Ionesco, Carol Ann Duffy, Joe Ortan

1

Class 71

VS Naipaul, John Fowles, Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, CP Snow

1

Class 72

Dorris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, Irish Murdoch, Cristopher Fry, Rousseau

1

Class 73

Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Bertrand Russell

1

Class 74

Evelyn Waugh, Ted Hughes, Margaret Drabble, Zaidi Smith

1

Class No.

Topics Covered

Number of PDFs

Class 75

Introduction to Cultural Studies, Plato, Aristotle

1

Class 76

Socrates, Longinus, Horace, Indian Aesthetics

1

Class 77

Russian Symbolist Movement, Russian Formalism, New Formalism, Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky, New Criticism, The Intentional Fallacy, The Affective Fallacy

1

Class 78

JC Ransom, Cleanth Brookes, IA Richards, Allen Tate

1

Class 79

FR Leavis, William Empson, RP Blackmur

1

Class 80

Structuralism, Ferdinand De Saussure

1

Class 81

Claude Levi Strauss, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser 

1

Class 82

Post- Structuralism, Jacques Derrida

1

Class 83

Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Jean Baudrillard

1

Class 84

Reader Response Criticism, Stanley Fish, New Historicism, Stephan Greenblatt

1

Class 85

Archetypal/ Myth Criticism, Northrop Frye

1

Class 86

Cultural Criticism, Mikhail Bakhtin

1

Class 87

Marxism, Raymond Williams

1

Class 88

Antonio Gramsci, Frederic Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Gyorgy Lukacs

1

Class 89

Post-Colonialism, Homi K. Bhabha, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, List of All Post-colonial Works

1

Class 90

Feminist Criticism, Four Waves of Feminism, Gynocriticism, Feminine, Feminist and Female Stages, Womanism, Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism, Marxist and Socialist Feminism, Cultural Feminism, Eco-Feminism, Elaine Showalter, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, Important Works of Feminist Criticism

1

Class 91

Psychoanalytical Criticism, Sigmund Freud

1

Class 92

Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, Queer Theory, Phenomenological Criticism, Hermeneutics

1

Classical Literature

Class 93

Aeschylus, Sophocles

1

Class 94

Trojan War, Homer

1

Class 95

Virgil, Pindar, Ovid

1

Class 96

Euripides, Aristophanes, Juvenal

1

American Literature

Class 97

Introduction to American Literature, American Renaissance, Transcendentalism, American romanticism, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Age, American Beat Movement, Freytag’s Pyramid

1

Class 98

Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, RW Emerson, HW Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau

1

Class 99

Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville

1

Class 100

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass

1

Class 101

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain

1

Class 102

James Cooper, James Lowell, Stephane Crane, Gertrude Stein

1

Class 103

Robert Frost, Ezra Pound

1

Class 104

Hilda Doolittle, William Faulkner, Eugene O’ Neil

1

Class 105

Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams

1

Class 106

Tennessee Williams, Sinclair Lewis, F Scott Fitzgerald

1

Class 107

Arthur Miller, Pearl S Buck

1

Class 108

John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Willian Styron

1

Class 109

Edward Albee, Alice Walker, Philip Roth

1

Class 110

Gabriel García Márquez, Harper Lee, Sylvia Plath

1

Class 111

Toni Morrison, Harold Bloom

1

History of Indian Literature

Class 112

Evolution of English in India, Charles Grant, Company Charter Act 1813, Minutes of Macaulay  1835, LORD AUCKLAND’S MINUTES OF 1839, WOOD’S DESPATCH OF 1854, First Indian Education Commission or Hunter Commission, Indian university commission, Kunzru Committee, The University Education  Commission (1948-49)or  Radhakrishnan Commission, Mudaliar Commission or  Secondary Education Commission, Education Commission 1964-66 (Kothari Commission), Braj Bihari Kachru

4

Rhetoric and Prosody

Class 113

Rhetoric and Prosody

1

Class 114

Rhetorical Devices/Figures of Speech

1

Class No.

Topics Covered

Number of PDFs

Linguistic and Pedagogy

Class 115

Linguistics, Neologism, Dialect, Language Register, Pidgin, Creole, Lingua Franca, Collocation, Inflection, Paralanguage, Metalanguage, The New Bolt Report, Phonology, Morphology, Phonemes, Vowels and Consonants in Linguistics

1

Class 116

Pedagogy, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL), Four Skills of language learning, Methods of Teaching Second Language, Error analysis, Noam Chomsky, Minimalist Program

1

Canadian Literature

Class 117

Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munroe

1

Research Methodology in Literature and Linguistics

Class 118

Research Methodology, APA, MLA, Chicago, How to Write Parenthetical citation, Hypothesis, Research Objectives, Steps of Research, How to Write References and Bibliography in different Stylesheets, Types of Journals

1

Australian Literature

Class 119

History of Australian Literature, Bush Poetry/Ballad

1

Class 120

Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson

1

Class 121

Patrick White, Thomas Keneally, Peter Carey

1

Class 122

AD Hope, David Malouf, John Flanagan, Geraldine Brooks, Paul Jennings

1

Russian Literature

Class 123

Anton Chekhov

1

Class 124

Leo Tolstoy

1

Class 125

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1

Class 126

Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov, Maxim Gorky

1

Class No.

Topics Covered

Number of PDFs

Other Asian Literature

Class 127

Monica Ali

1

Class 128

Bapsi Sidhwa

1

Class 129

Michael Ondaatje

1

Class 130

Shyam Selvadurai

1

African Literature

Class 131

Chinua Achebe

1

Class 132

Wole Soyinka

1

Class 133

Ben Okri, Buchi Emecheta, Chiamananda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer, Ama Ata Aidoo

1

Class 134

JM Coetzee

1

Class 135

Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Derek Walcott, George Lamming

1

German Literature

Class 136

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Immanuel Kant

1

Class 137

Friedrich Schiller, Hermann Hesse

1

Class 138

Thomas Mann

1

Class 139

Franz Kafka

1

Class 140

Gunter Grass, Ann Frank

1

Other European Literature

Class 141

Dante

1

Class 142

Petrarch

1

Class 143

Giovanni Boccaccio, Miguel de Cervantes

1

Class 144

Henrik Ibsen

1

Class 145

Gustav Flaubert, Albert Camus

1

Class 146

Emily Zola, Jean Paul Sarte, Milan Kundera, Orhan Pamuk

1

Dalit Literature

Class 147

Dalit Literature

1

Diasporic Literature

Class 148

Diasporic Literature

1

Etymology and Finding Origin of Words

Class 149

Etymology and Finding origin of Words

1

Indian Literature

Class 150

Henery Derozio Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu

1

Class 151

Bhabani Bhattacharya, Rabindra Nath Tagore,  Nirad C Chaudhary, Janapith Award, Vikram Seth

1

Class 152

RK Narayan

1

Class 153

Raja Rao

1

Class 154

Mulk Raj Anand, Amitav Ghosh

1

Class 155

Arvind Adiga

1

Class 156

Anita Desai, Toru Dutt

1

Class 157

Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy

1

Class 158

Miscellaneous

1