Kerala
PSC Collegiate exam for the post of Assistant Professor
Syllabus
for
descriptive examination
For detailed study
1.
John Donne – Batter My Heart,
Canonization
2.
Milton – Lycidas, Paradise
Lost - Book 9
3.
John Dryden – Macflecknoe
4.
Thomas Gray – Elegy Written
in a Country churchyard
5.
William Shakespeare – Twelfth
Night, Hamlet, Sonnets No 18, 30, 116
6.
Alexander Pope – Rape of the
Lock
7.
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor
Faustus
8.
Francis Bacon – Of Books, Of
Marriage and Single Life, Of Truth
9.
Jonathan Swift – The Battle
of the Books
10.
Robert Burns – A Red, Red
Rose
11.
William Blake – The Tyger,
The Lamb
12.
William Wordsworth – Ode:
Initimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
13.
Samuel Coleridge – Kubla Khan
14.
John Keats – Ode to a
Nightingale
15.
P B Shelley – Ode to the West
Wind
16.
Lord Byron – The Prisoner of
Chillon
17.
Lord Tennyson – Ulysses,
Lotos Eaters
18.
Mathew Arnold – The Scholar
Gypsy, Dover Beach
19.
Robert Browning – Andrea del
Sarto
20.
G.M. Hopkins – The Pied Beauty
21.
Thomas de Quincey – On the
Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
22.
Charles Lamb – Oxford in
Vacation, Dream Children
23.
Oscar Wilde – The Importance
of Being Earnest
24.
W.B.Yeats – The Second
Coming, Sailing to Byzantium
25.
T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland
26.
W.H. Auden – In Memory of W.B.
Yeats
27.
Dylan Thomas – Poem in October
28.
Sylvia Plath – Daddy
29.
Philip Larking – Church Going
30.
Carol Ann Duffy – Anne Hathaway
31.
Ted Hughes – Thought Fox
32.
Thom Gunn – On the Move
33.
G.B. Shaw – Pygmalion
34.
T.S. Eliot – Murder in the
Cathedral
35.
J.M. Synge – Playboy of the
Western World
36.
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for
Godot
37.
Harold Pinter – The Birthday
Party
38.
T.S. Eliot – Tradition and
Individual Talent
39.
Virginia Woolf – Modern
Fiction
40.
Rabindranath Tagore – Poems 1
to 20 from Gitanjali
41.
Sri Aurobindo – The Trance of
Waiting
42.
Sarojini Naidu – Coromandel
Fishers
43.
Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s
House, Freaks
44.
Nissim Ezeliek – Background,
Casually
45.
A.K. Ramanujan – A River, The
Striders
46.
Girish Karnad – Nagamandala
47.
Manjula Padmanabhan – Harvest
48.
Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a
Man
49.
S. N. Dasgupta – The Theory
of Rasa
50.
Kunjunni Raja – Theory of
Dhwani
51.
Walt Whitman – Out of the
Cradle Endlessly Rocking
52.
Emily Dickinson – I felt a
funeral
53.
Robert Frost – Home Burial
54.
Wallace Stephens – Sunday Morning
55.
Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven
56.
Maya Angelou – Phenomenal
Woman
57.
Eugene O Neil – Emperor Jones
58.
Tennesee Williams – The Glass
Menagerie
Non detailed portions
1.
Beowulf Ballads – Sir Patrick
Spence, Chevy Chase
2.
Geoffrey Chaucer - Prologue
to the Canterbury Tales
3.
Thomas Kyd – The Spanish
Tragedy
4.
Edmund Spencer - Epithalamion
5.
Andrew Marvell – To His Coy
Mistress
6.
Richard Sheridan – The School
for Scandal
7.
Sir Thomas More – Utopia
8.
Henry Fielding/ Samuel Richardson – Pamela
9.
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
10.
William Wordsworth – Preface
to the Lyrical Ballads
11.
Olauda Equiano - The
Interesting Narrative (Chapter 4 and 5) P.B. Shelley – The Cenci
12.
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
13.
Emily Bronte – Wuthering
Heights
14.
Charles Dickens – Oliver
Twist
15.
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the
D’Ubervilles
16.
Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
17.
Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
18.
F.R. Leavis – The Great
Tradition
19.
Joseph Conrad – The Heart of
Darkness
20.
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
21.
James Joyce – A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man
22.
George Orwell – 1984
23.
John Fowles – The French
Lieutenant’s Woman
24.
Angela Carter – Nights at the
Circus
25.
Caryll Churchill – Top Girls
26.
Vijay Tendulakar – The Court
is in Session
27.
Mulk Raj Anand – The
Untouchable
28.
Raja Rao – The Serpent and
the Rope
29.
Anita Desai – Clear Light of
Day
30.
R.K. Narayan – Malgudi Days
31.
Salman Rushdie – Midnighht’s
Children
32.
Arundhati Roy – The God of
Small Things
33.
Aravind Adiga – The White
Tiger
34.
A.K. Ramanujan - Is there an
Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay
35.
Emerson – Self Reliance
36.
Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
37.
Arthur Miller – Death of a
Salesman
38.
E E Cummings – Buffallo Hills
39.
Alln Ginsberg - America
40.
Gertrude Stein – Daughter
41.
Hawthorne – The Scarlett
Letter
42.
Herman Melville – Moby Dick
43.
Hemmingway – The Old Man and
the Sea
44.
Toni Morrison – The Bluest
Eye
Structure of English Language
and Linguistics
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Indo European Family of
Languages
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Old English, Middle English,
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Modern EnglishPhonetics
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Phonology-General phonetics-Phonetic
transcription
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Stress Intonation Morphology
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Traditional Grammar and Modern Grammar
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Form class words-Function
Class Words-
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Fallacies
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Saussure-Structuralism
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Syntax-PS Grammar-TG
Grammar-Deep Structure-Surface Structure
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Chomsky’s Trace Theory- Case
Grammar, Systemic, Stratification and Tagmemics
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Semantics- Lexical semantics-
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Metaphor-
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Figures of speech
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Linguistics-
Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics
English
Language Teaching
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Key concepts in ELT- ESL-
EFL-
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Mother tongue interference
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Methods of teaching – Grammar Translation
Method, Direct Method, Audio Visual Method, Suggestopaedia, Community Language
Learning Theories-
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Behaviourism, Cognitivism,
Constructivism
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Learner Factors,
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Teaching Aids, ICT Types of
tests-
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Tools for Evaluation-
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Error Analysis and Remedial Teaching
Literary
Criticism
1.
Aristotle – Poetics
2.
Philip Sydney – An Apologie
for Poetry
3.
Samuel Coleridge – Biographia Literaria
(Chapter 14)
4.
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own.
5.
T. S. Eliot – Tradition and
Individual Talent
6.
Northrop Fry – Archetypes of
Literature
7.
Cleanth Brookes- The Language
of Paradox
8.
Edmund Wilson –“Marxism and
Literature”.
9.
Elaine Showalter – “Feminist
Criticism in the Wilderness”.
10.
Jacques Derrida-
“Difference”.
11.
Karl Marx- “The Fetishism of Commodities and
the Secret Thereof” Sigmund Freud – “The Conscious and the Unconscious”; “The
Id and The Ego”; “The Ego and the Super Ego” Beyond the Pleasure Principles and
Other Writings
12.
Jurgen Habermas– “Modernity-
An Incomplete Project”
13.
Raymond Williams– “Tradition, Institution,
Formations”
14.
Stephen Greenblatt –
“Shakespeare and the Exorcists”
15.
Michel Foucault – “Two Lectures” from
Power/Knowledge, “The Unities of Discourse” from the Archaeology of Knowledge
and the Discourse on Language
16.
Edward W. Said – “Introduction to
Orientalism”.
17.
Helen Cixous – “The Laugh of the Medusa”
18.
Eve Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet
Culture
Studies
1.
Theodor W. Adorno – “Culture
Industry Reconsidered” (pp 98 -107) in Culture Industry: Selected Essays on
Mass Culture
2.
Stuart Hall – “Encoding/Decoding” from
Culture, Media, Language.
3.
Laura Mulvey – “Visual
Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
4.
Judith Butler – “Subject of Sex/Gender/Desire”
from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Angela McRobbie –
“Postmodernism and Popular Culture”.
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The candidates are expected
to have a comprehensive knowledge of recent trends relating to
1.
Post Colonialism,
2.
Eco Criticism,
3.
New Historicism,
4.
Queer Theory,
5.
Trauma Studies,
6.
New Feminisms,
7.
Culture Studies,
8.
Diasporic Writing,
9.
Public Sphere,
10.
Meta Narratives,
11.
Hyper Reality and
Simulacra.
INSGHTS
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Total number of modules : 14
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For detailed study :58
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For Non detailed study : 44
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Short answers, paragraph
questions, annotations and essays can be expected
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Linguistics
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Criticism = Classical+ Modern
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Cultural studies