(Syllabus) RPSC: Syllabus For Post of College Lecturer: English

Rajasthan Public Service Commission

Syllabus For Screening Test For Post of College Lecturer: English

Unit – I :

Structure of English Language and its Usage

1. Analysis of Sentence Patterns and Structure of Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase and Preposition Phrase
2. Tense (Aspect, Voice), Conditionals, Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives
3. Primary and Modal Auxiliaries
4. Phrasal Verbs
5. Classification and description of R.P. Consonant and Vowel Sounds, Word - Stress, Phonetic Transcription
6. Comprehension of a literary text, Appreciation and analysis of a poem

Unit – II :

Drama :-

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

Unit – III :

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

Unit – IV

1. Dickens : Great Expectations
2. Hardy : Tess of the D’urbervilles
3. Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter
4. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
5. Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
6. Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. Morrison : The Bluest Eye
8. Narayan : Man-Eater of Malgudi
9. Desai : Cry, the Peacock
10. Roy : The God of Small Things
11. Rushdie : Midnight’s Children
12. Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
13. Atwood : Surfacing
14. White : The Tree of Man

Unit – V

Prose:

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

Unit – VI

Literary Theory and Criticism :

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

Pattern of Question Papers :

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

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