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📚 PG TRB English – Unit-wise Syllabus

📘 Unit 1 – English Literature from 1400 to 1600

Poetry: Chaucer, Spenser, Wyatt, Surrey
Prose: Bacon, Sidney, Bible
Drama: Marlowe, Kyd, Jonson

📝 Test – Unit 1

📘 Unit 2 – English Literature from 1600 to 1798

Poetry: Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope
Prose: Bunyan, Addison, Steele, Swift, Johnson
Drama: Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Congreve, Goldsmith, Sheridan

📝 Test – Unit 2

📘 Unit 3 – English Literature from 1798 to 1832

Poetry: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats
Prose: Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Austen

📝 Test – Unit 3

📘 Unit 4 – English Literature from 1832 to 1901

Poetry: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne
Prose: Carlyle, Ruskin, Newman
Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy

📝 Test – Unit 4

📘 Unit 5 – English Literature from 1901 to Present Day

Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Larkin, Hughes, Heaney
Prose: Orwell, Huxley, Woolf, Forster
Drama: Shaw, Eliot, Osborne, Pinter, Beckett, Stoppard
Fiction: Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Golding, Murdoch, Fowles

📝 Test – Unit 5

📘 Unit 6 – Indian Writing in English

Poetry: Toru Dutt, Sri Aurobindo, Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Jayanta Mahapatra, A.K. Ramanujan
Fiction: R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy
Drama: Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani

📝 Test – Unit 6

📘 Unit 7 – American Literature

Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Ginsberg
Prose: Emerson, Thoreau, James, Baldwin
Fiction: Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Morrison
Drama: O’Neill, Williams, Miller

📝 Test – Unit 7

📘 Unit 8 – Literary Criticism and Theory

Classical, Neoclassical, Romantic, Modern and Postmodern criticism
Literary theory: Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Eco-criticism, Cultural Studies

📝 Test – Unit 8

📘 Unit 9 – English Language Teaching and Linguistics

Language acquisition and learning, Methods of teaching English, Teaching of literature and language skills, Testing and evaluation
Linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse analysis

📝 Test – Unit 9

📘 Unit 10 – English for Competitive Examinations

Grammar, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Usage, Correction of Sentences, Error Identification, Synonyms, Antonyms, Idioms and Phrases, One-word Substitution

📝 Test – Unit 10

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