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English Literature CSS Syllabus

The paper is divided into six components along with the marks allocation for each component.

English Précis And Composition CSS Syllabus

I.             Essays: (10 Marks)

• Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness)
  • George Orwell (Politics and the English Language; The Prevention of Literature)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Transcendentalist; Self-Reliance)

II.           Short Stories: (10 Marks)

• Somerset Maugham (The Lotus-Eater)
  • G.K.Chesterton (A Somewhat Improbable Story)
  • O’Henry (The Gift of the Magi)

III.          Poetry: (20 marks)

• William Wordsworth (Resolution and Independence; Lines Composed Few Miles Above, Tintern Abbey)
  • John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Autumn)
  • Lord Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses; The Lady of Shalott)
  • Yeats (A Dialogue of Self and Soul; The Second Coming)
  • Eliot (The Wasteland; Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
  • Philip Larkin (Maturity; Continuing to Live; The Trees)
  • Wallace Stevens (A Postcard from the Volcano; Continual Conversation with a Silent Man; Dry Loaf) OR Walt Whitman (As I Ponder’d in Silence; Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?; This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful)

IV.         Drama: (20 marks)

• Shakespeare (Hamlet; King Lear; Twelfth Night)
  • William Congreve (The Way of the World)
  • Shaw (Pygmalion; Heartbreak House )
  • Harold Pinter (The Caretaker)
  • Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
  • Eugene O’Neill (Long Day’s Journey into Night)

V.           Novels: (20 marks)

• Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd)
  • D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)
  • George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-four)
  • James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
  • Iris Murdoch (Under the Net)

• Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)       or William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)

VI.         Literacy Theory & Criticism (20 Marks)

• Structuralism
  • Marxism
  • Deconstructionism
  • Psychoanalytic criticism
  • Feminist criticism
  • Postcolonial Criticism