(Syllabus) Himachal Pradesh PSC: State Eligibility Test (English)

Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission

SET: English Syllabus

PAPER-II

1. Chaucer to Shakespeare.
2. Jacobean to Restoration Periods.
3. Augustan Age : 18th Century Literature.
4. Romantic Period.
5. Victorian Period.
6. Modern Period.
7. Contemporary Period.
8. American and other non-British Literatures.
9. Literary Theory and Criticism.
10. Rhetoric and Prosody.

PAPER-III (A) (CORE GROUP)

1. British Literature from Chaucer to the present day.
2. Criticism and Literary Theory.

Unit-I : Literary Comprehension (with internal choice of poetry stanza and prose passage; four comprehension questions will be asked carrying 4 marks each).

Unit-II : Up to the Renaissance.

Unit III : Jacobean to Restoration Periods.

Unit IV : Augustan Age: 18th Century literature

Unit V : Romanatic Period

Unit VI : Victorian and Pre-Raphaelites

Unit VII : Modern British Literature

Unit VIII: Contemporary British Literature

Unit IX : Literary Theory and criticism up to T.S. Eliot

Unit X : Contemporary Theory

PAPER-III (B) (ELECTIVE/OPTIONAL)

Elective-I : History of English Language, English Language Teaching.

Elective-II : European Literature from Classical Age to the 20th Century.

Elective-III: Indian writing in English and Indian Literature in English translation

Elective-IV: American and other non-British English Literatures.

Elective-V : Literary Theory and Criticism.

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