Kerala PSC Collegiate exam for the post of Assistant Professor Syllabus for descriptive examination

 

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

•       Indo European Family of Languages

•       Old English, Middle English,

•        Modern EnglishPhonetics

•        Phonology-General phonetics-Phonetic transcription

•       Stress Intonation Morphology

•        Traditional Grammar and Modern Grammar

•       Form class words-Function Class Words-

•       Fallacies

•       Saussure-Structuralism

•       Syntax-PS Grammar-TG Grammar-Deep Structure-Surface Structure

•       Chomsky’s Trace Theory- Case Grammar, Systemic, Stratification and Tagmemics

•       Semantics- Lexical semantics-

•       Metaphor-

•       Figures of speech

•       Linguistics- Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics

English Language Teaching

•       Key concepts in ELT- ESL- EFL-

•       Mother tongue interference

•        Methods of teaching – Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio Visual Method, Suggestopaedia, Community Language Learning Theories-

•       Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism

•       Learner Factors,

•       Teaching Aids, ICT Types of tests-

•        Tools for Evaluation-

•        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”.

•       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

•       Total number of modules : 14

•       For detailed study          :58

•       For Non detailed study     : 44

•       Short answers, paragraph questions, annotations and essays can be expected

•       Linguistics

•       Criticism = Classical+ Modern

•       Cultural studies