UGC NET English — Crash Course

From Ancient Greek tragedy and Medieval morality plays through Elizabethan, Jacobean, Restoration, Victorian, Modern, and Contemporary drama — British, American, Indian, and World Drama.

Pre-Chaucerian and Chaucerian poetry, Renaissance to Augustan, Romantic, Victorian, Modern, Contemporary, and American poetry — forms, movements, and major poets.

The novel and short story from the 18th century to Postmodernism — rise of the novel, Victorian fiction, Modernist experimentation, Postcolonial fiction, Indian Writing in English.

Essays, autobiography, travel writing, and criticism from Bacon and Addison to Orwell and beyond — rhetoric, argument, and the essay tradition.

Language acquisition theories, basic linguistic concepts (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), and English Language Teaching (ELT) methodology.

History and evolution of English in the Indian subcontinent — colonial encounter, Indian English literature, language policy, and the future of English in India.

Power structures, ideology, hegemony, popular culture, gender, race, and identity — highly tested unit. Gramsci, Stuart Hall, and the Birmingham School.

Classical criticism (Plato, Aristotle) through Renaissance, Neo-classical, Romantic, and Victorian criticism to the New Critics — close reading and formalism.

Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, Marxism, Feminism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Postcolonialism, Reader-Response, New Historicism, Ecocriticism.

Research methodology, types of research, bibliography, citation styles, editing, and academic writing — essential for PhD eligibility.