{"id":97020,"date":"2021-03-22T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=97020"},"modified":"2023-10-27T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:27:58","slug":"english-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-syllabus\/english-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"English Literature Optional UPSC Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"

English Optional-Syllabus<\/strong><\/p>\n

The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a first-hand and critical reading of texts
\nprescribed from the following periods in English Literature : Paper 1 : 1600-1900 and Paper 2 :
\n1900\u20131990.
\nThere will be two compulsory questions in each paper : (a) A short-notes question related to the
\ntopics for general study, and (b) A critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.<\/p>\n

PAPER-I<\/h5>\n

(Answers must be written in English)<\/strong>
\nTexts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate <\/strong>
\nknowledge of the following topics and movements :<\/strong>
\nThe Renaissance; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the
\nMock-epic; Neo-classicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian
\nAge.<\/p>\n

Section A<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest.<\/strong>
\n2. John Donne. The following poems :<\/strong>
\n\u2013Canonization;
\n\u2013Death be not proud;
\n\u2013The Good Morrow;
\n\u2013On his Mistress going to bed;
\n\u2013The Relic;
\n3. John Milton: Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX.
\n4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock.
\n5. William Wordsworth. The following poems :
\n\u2013 Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
\n\u2013 Tintern Abbey.
\n\u2013 Three years she grew.
\n\u2013 She dwelt among untrodden ways.
\n\u2013 Michael.
\n\u2013 Resolution and Independence.
\n\u2013 The World is too much with us.
\n\u2013 Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour.
\n\u2013 Upon Westminster Bridge.
\n6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam.
\n7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll\u2019s House.<\/p>\n

Section B<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver\u2019s Travels.
\n2. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
\n3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones.
\n4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
\n5. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss.
\n6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d\u2019Urbervilles.
\n7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.<\/p>\n

PAPER-II<\/h5>\n

(Answers must be written in English)<\/strong>
\nTexts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate
\nknowledge of the following topics and movements :
\nModernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism
\nand Post-Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist
\napproaches to literature; Post-Modernism.<\/p>\n

Section A<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. William Butler Yeats. The following poems :<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Easter 1916.
\n\u2013 The Second Coming.
\n\u2013 A Prayer for my daughter.
\n\u2013 Sailing to Byzantium.
\n\u2013 The Tower.
\n\u2013 Among School Children.
\n\u2013 Leda and the Swan.
\n\u2013 Meru.
\n\u2013 Lapis Lazuli.
\n\u2013 The Second Coming.
\n\u2013 Byzantium.
\n2. T.S. Eliot. The following poems :<\/strong>
\n\u2013 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
\n\u2013 Journey of the Magi.
\n\u2013 Burnt Norton.
\n3. W.H. Auden. The following poems :<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Partition
\n\u2013 Musee des Beaux Arts
\n\u2013 In Memory of W.B. Yeats
\n\u2013 Lay your sleeping head, my love
\n\u2013 The Unknown Citizen
\n\u2013 Consider
\n\u2013 Mundus Et Infans
\n\u2013 The Shield of Achilles
\n\u2013 September 1, 1939
\n\u2013 Petition
\n4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger.<\/strong>
\n5. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot.<\/strong>
\n6. Philip Larkin. The following poems :<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Next
\n\u2013 Please
\n\u2013 Deceptions
\n\u2013 Afternoons
\n\u2013 Days
\n\u2013 Mr. Bleaney
\n7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems :<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Looking for a Cousin on a Swing
\n\u2013 A River
\n\u2013 Of Mothers, among other Things
\n\u2013 Love Poem for a Wife 1
\n\u2013 Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House
\n\u2013 Obituary
\n(All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets, edited
\nby
\nR. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).<\/p>\n

Section B<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim.
\n2. James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
\n3. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.
\n4. E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.
\n5. Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway.
\n6. Raja Rao. Kanthapura.
\n7. V.S. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

English Optional-Syllabus The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a first-hand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the following periods in English Literature : Paper 1 : 1600-1900 and Paper 2 : 1900\u20131990. There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : (a) A short-notes question related to the topics for… Continue reading English Literature Optional UPSC Syllabus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"parent":50153,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97020","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97020\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}