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(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
- Analysis of Sentence Patterns and Structure of Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase and Preposition Phrase
- Tense (Aspect, Voice), Conditionals, Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives
- Primary and Modal Auxiliaries
- Phrasal Verbs
- Classification and description of R.P. Consonant and Vowel Sounds, Word - Stress, Phonetic Transcription
- Comprehension of a literary text, Appreciation and analysis of a poem
Unit – II :
Drama :-
- Webster : Duchess of Malfi
- Marlowe : Dr. Faustus
- Shakespeare : Hamlet, As you like it
- Sheridan : The School for Scandal
- Shaw : Arms and the Man
- Beckett : Waiting for Godot
- Pinter : The Birthday Party
- Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
- Miller : Death of a Salesman
Unit – III :
- Milton : Paradise Lost – Books I and IX
- Donne : The Flea, Good Morrow, Canonization, Extasie, A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning
- Pope : The Rape of the Lock
- Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Wordsworth : Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Daffodils, Tintern Abbey
- Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Shelley : Ode to the West Wind
- Keats : Ode to Nightingale
- Tennyson : Ulysses
- Eliot : The Waste Land
- Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium
- Hopkins : Spring and Fall, Pied Beauty
- Frost : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Dickinson : I felt a funeral in my brain, Because I could not stop for death
- Ezekiel : Night of the Scorpion, Enterprise
- Naidu : Palanquin Bearers, The Soul’s Prayer
- Ramanujan : A River
- Kamala Das : The Dance of Eunuchs
Unit – IV
- Dickens : Great Expectations
- Hardy : Tess of the D’urbervilles
- Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter
- Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
- Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Morrison : The Bluest Eye
- Narayan : Man-Eater of Malgudi
- Desai : Cry, the Peacock
- Roy : The God of Small Things
- Rushdie : Midnight’s Children
- Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
- Atwood : Surfacing
- White : The Tree of Man
Unit – V
Prose:
- Bacon : Of Studies, Of Adversity
- Addison : Sir Roger in Church, Meditations on Westminister Abbey
- Lamb : Dream Children : A Reverie, In Praise of Chimney Sweepers
- Hazlitt : Indian Jugglers
- Huxley : Pleasures
- Russel : Fear of Public Opinion
- Lucas : Third Thoughts
- Chesterton : On the pleasure of no longer being young
- Snow : The Two Cultures
- Forster : What I Believe
- Orwell : Shooting an Elephant
- Shaw : On Freedom
- Nehru : “Tryst with Destiny” (Speech)
Unit – VI
Literary Theory and Criticism :
- Aristotle : Poetics
- Dryden : An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
- Wordsworth : Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Arnold : The Study of Poetry
- Eliot : Tradition and the Individual Talent
- Richards : Principles of Literary Criticism
- Frye : Archetypal Criticism
- Derrida : Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
- Showalter : Introduction from Towards a Feminist Poetics
- Said : “Crisis” from Orientalism
- Rushdie : Introduction from Imaginary Homelands
Pattern of Question Papers :
- Objective Type Paper.
- Maximum Marks : 100
- Number of Questions : 100
- Duration of Paper : Two Hours.
- All Questions carry equal marks.
- There will be Negative Marking for wrong answer.
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