English Literature: PPSC Exam Syllabus

Section A

Short Notes : Two questions sets of short answer of questions on prescribed texts ( 4 out of 6) 150                       words each.

William Shakespeare -	King Lear, As you like it
John Donne -	Canonization, The Good Morrow, Relique, Death Be Not Proud, Valediction Forbidding Mourning.
Alexander Pope -	The Rape of the Lock
William Wordsworth -	Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, The Prelude Book-I
W.B. Yeats -	Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantiam, Prayer for My Daughter, Among School Children.
Robert Frost -	The Road not taken, Mending wall, After Apple Picking Birches.
Nissim Ezekiel -	Night of the Scorpian, Enterprise, Background, Casually, Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher.

Section B

Short Notes : Two questions sets of short answer of questions on prescribed texts ( 4 out of 6) 150                       words each.

Charles Dickens -	Hard Times
Thomas Hardy -	Tess
Henry James -	Portrait of a Lady
Raja Rao -	Kanthapura
D.H. Lawrence -	Sons and Lovers
Bernard Shaw -	Pygmalion
Arthur Miller -	Death of a Salesman

Section C

Short Notes : Two Essay-type questions on Movements/Authors/Trends/Texts/Approaches (4 to 5                       pages).

Renaissance, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Metaphysical Poetry, Neo-classicism, Augustan Satire, Romantic Movement, Rise of the Novel, Victorianism, Modernism, Stream of Consciousness Novel, Absurd Drama, Marxist, Psycho-Analytic and Feminist approaches to literature.

Section D

Short Notes : Two unseen passages for critical appreciation(Candidate to attempt one).