UPESSC Assistant Professor English syllabus

1Literature and Society in the following periods

• (a) Renaissance & Reformation (b) Restoration Period
• (c) Neo-classical Period (d) Romantic Period (e) Victorian Period
• (f) Modern Period (g) Post-Modern Period

2British Drama

• C. Marlowe : Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta
• Ben Jonson : Everyman in His Humour
• W. Shakespeare : Hamlet, Macbeth, The Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Tempest, Julius Caesar
• John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
• John Dryden : All For Love
• W. Congreve : The Way of the World
• George Bernard Shaw : Candida, Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Arms and the Man
• John Galsworthy : Strife, Loyalties
• John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World
• T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
• Sammuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot
• John Osborme : Look Back in Anger
• Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party
• Tom Stoppard : Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• Caryl Churchill : Top Girls

3British Prose and Fiction

• Francis Bacon : 'Of Truth', 'Of Revenge', 'Of Studies', 'Of Marriage and Single Life',
• John Milton : 'Areopagitica'
• Addison and Steele : Essays dealing with Coverly Papers from 'The Spectator'.
• Mary Wollstonecraft : 'A vindication of the Rights of Woman'
• Charles Lamb : 'The South Sea House', 'Dream Children', 'Christ Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago', 'The Superannuated Man' 'Poor Relations', 'Imperfect Sympathies'
• William Hazlitt : 'Public Opinion', 'On Reading Old Books', 'On Reading New Books'
• Virginia Woolf : 'A Room of One's Own'
• Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews
• Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
• Mary Shelley : Frankenstein
• Charles Dickens : Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
• George Eliot : Middle March
• Thomas Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge
• D.H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
• James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Graham Greene : The Power and the Glory
• George Orwell : Nineteen Eighty-Four
• William Golding : Lord of the Flies
• Kazuo Ishiguro : The Remains of the Day

4British Poetry

• G. Chaucer : 'The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales'
• E. Spenser : 'The Faerie Queene Book I'
• Philip Sidney : 'Sonnet 1' and 'Sonnet 31' (from Astrophil and Stella)
• John Donne : 'The Canonization', 'The Flea', 'A Valediction Forbidding Mourning', 'Goe and Catche a Falling Starre', 'Death Be Not Proud'
• J. Milton : 'Paradise Lost Book I', 'Lycidas'
• J. Dryden : 'Absalom & Achitophel'
• A. Pope : 'The Rape of the Lock'
• William Blake : 'London', 'Tyger'
• Thomas Gray : 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'
• William Wordsworth : 'The Prelude' Book I, 'Tintern Abbey', 'The Daffodils'
• S.T. Coleridge : 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan'
• P.B. Shelley : 'Ode to the West Wind', 'Adonais', 'Ode to Skylark'
• John Keats : 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'Ode to Autumn'
• A. Tennyson : 'Lady of Shallot', 'Ulysses', 'The Princess', 'The Lotos Eaters'
• Christina Rossetti : 'Goblin Market'
• Robert Browning : 'Rabbi Ben Ezra', 'Prospice', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'The Last Ride Together', 'My Last Duchess'
• Matthew Arnold : 'The Scholar Gypsy', 'Dover Beach'
• W.B. Yeats : 'Easter 1916', 'The Second Coming', 'A Prayer for my Daughter', 'Among School Children', 'Sailing to Byzantium', 'Byzantium'
• T.S. Eliot : 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', 'The Waste Land',
• W.H. Auden : 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats', 'The Shield of Achilles', 'Partition', 'The Unknown Citizen', 'Musee des Beaux Arts'
• Philip Larkin : 'The Whitsun Weddings', 'Ambulances', 'Church Going'
• Ted Hughes : 'Hawk Roosting', 'The Thought Fox'
• Seamus Heaney : 'Digging', 'Death of a Naturalist'
• Carol Ann Duffy : 'Valentine'

5Literary Theory and Criticism

• Aristotle : Poetics
• Longinus : 'On the Sublime'
• J. Dryden : 'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy'
• Dr Johnson : 'Preface to Shakespeare'
• W. Wordsworth : 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads'
• S.T. Coleridge : Biographia Literaria (Chaps XIII, XIV, XVIII)
• Matthew Arnold : 'Study of Poetry', 'Culture and Anarchy'
• T.S. Eliot : 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'Hamlet', 'The Metaphysical Poets'
• I.A. Richards : The Principles of Literary Criticism
• F.R. Leavis : 'Literature and Society', 'Literary Criticism and Philosophy'

6Literary Theory and Literary Criticism

• New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Feminism, Post-Colonialism, Cultural Theory, Psycho-analytical Criticism, Marxism, Reader-Response Theory, Indian Poetics – Rasa, Dhvani Schools, Eco-Criticism, Queer Theory, Digital Humanities, Posthumanism, Medical Humanities

7American Literature

• R.W. Emerson : 'Hamatreya', 'Brahma', 'The Over Soul'
• Walt Whitman : 'One's Self I Sing', 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed', 'A Passage to India', 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'
• Emily Dickinson : 'I never Lost as Much but Twice', 'Success is Counted Sweetest', 'I felt a Funeral in my Brain', 'If I should Die and you should Live'
• Robert Frost : 'Birches', 'Mending Wall', 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', 'The Road not Taken', 'Mowing', 'The Death of the Hired Man'
• Wallace Stevens : 'The Emperor of Ice Cream', 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird', 'The World as Meditation'
• Langston Hughes : 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers', 'Harlem'
• Sylvia Plath : 'Daddy', 'Ariel'
• Eugene O' Neill : The Hairy Ape
• Tennessee Williams : The Glass Menagerie
• Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman
• N. Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter
• E. Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea
• H. Melville : Moby Dick
• Mark Twain : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• H.D. Thoreau : Civil Disobedience.
• Tony Morrison : The Bluest Eye
• Maxine Hong Kingston : The Woman Warrior

8Indian Literature in English

• Toru Dutt : 'Lakshman', 'The Lotus', 'Our Casuarina Tree'
• Sarojini Naidu : 'Palanquin Bearers', 'Bangle-sellers', 'Weavers', 'The Flute-Players of Vrindavan'
• R.N. Tagore : Gitanjali
• M.K. Gandhi : Hind Swaraj
• Swami Vivekanand : 'Chicago Lecture'
• Sri Aurodindo : Savitri Canto I, 'The Future Poetry', 'Is India Civilized'
• Nissim Ezekiel : 'Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher', 'Background Casually', 'The Night of the Scorpion', 'Background Casually'
• Kamala Das : 'An Introduction', 'My Grandmother's House', 'Summer in Calcutta'
• A.K. Ramanujan : 'Self – Portrait', 'A River', 'Obituary'
• Jayanta Mahapatra : 'Hunger', 'Dawn at Puri'
• Raja Rao : Kanthapura
• R.K. Narayan : The Guide
• Anita Desai : Cry the Peacock
• Shashi Deshpande : That Long Silence
• Salman Rushdie : Midnight's Children
• Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines
• Girish Karnad : Hayavadana

9Linguistics, Phonetics & Modern Grammar

• 1. Properties of Human Language
• 2. Scope and Branches of Linguistics
• 3. Language Varieties and Language Change
• 4. Saussure's Concept of Linguistic Sign, Immutability and Mutability of Sign.
• 5. Speech Mechanism and Phonemes in English
• 6. Consonant Clusters, Syllables and Word Stress
• 7. English Morphology and Syntax.
• 8. Chomsky's Transformational and Generative Grammar and Leech's Communicative Grammar
• 9. Stylistics and Literary Criticism, Discourse Analysis, ELT & ESP
• 10. Sociolinguistics

10New Literatures in English

• Australian and New Zealand Literature
• Patrick White : Voss
• Judith Wright : 'Woman to Man'
• Sally Morgan : My Place
• Peter Porter : 'Your Attention Please'
• Pry Lawler : Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
• Allen Curnow : 'Time', 'House and Land'
• Keri Hulme : The Bone People
• Canadian Literature
• M.G. Vassanji : 'Am I a Canadian Writer ?'
• Marshall McLuhan : The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man
• Margaret Atwood : Surfacing
• A.M. Klein : 'Indian Reservation : Caughnwaga'
• P.K. Page : 'First Neighbours'
• Earle Birney : 'Bushed', 'The Bear on the Delhi Road'
• African and Caribbean Literature
• Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
• Ngugi Wa Thiang'o : 'Decolonizing the Mind'
• Dennis Brutus : 'A Common Hate Enriched our Love and US'
• Gabriel Okara : The Mystic Drum
• David Diop : 'Africa'
• Edward Braithwaite : 'Tizzic'
• Derek Walcott : 'Ruins of a Great House'
• Mervyn Morris : 'Judas'
• Wole Soyinka : Lion and the Jewel
• Nadine Gordimer : 'English Language Literature and Politics in South Africa'
• Chimamanda Adichie : Half of a Yellow Sun

General Knowledge — common to every subject

1Current Affairs

• A. Major events & Current Affairs : National/International
• B. Personalities in News
• C. Sports News
• D. Current Research in the field of Science.

2Teaching and Research Aptitude

• A. Teaching : Nature, Objectives, Need, Methods Evaluation and Factor Affecting Teaching
• B. Research : Meaning and Methods
• C. Data : Source, Collection and Analysis
• D. Role of UGC in Qualitative Development in Higher Education.

3Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

• A. ICT : Meaning, Advantages and Disadvantages
• B. Basics of Internet & E-mailing
• C. General Abbreviation and Terminology.

4People and Environment

• A. People & Environment Interaction
• B. Environmental Depredation : cause & Solution
• C. National and International affairs for better Environment
• D. Environmental Control.

5Indian History and Geography

• A. Salient Features of Indian Culture
• B. Indian National Movement (1857-1950)
• C. Origin of Universe and Solar System
• D. Indian Geography (General).

6Indian Constitution and Economy

• A. Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
• B. Indian political system : Legislative Executive and Judiciary
• C. Election Commission and Public Service Commission
• D. Population, Poverty, Unemployment; Planning and Development; Income Tax
• E. Agriculture, Industry, Trade; Money, Currency, Banking and Capital Market.

UPESSC Assistant Professor syllabus, English (Subject Code-10), Syllabus/upessc_2026/English_en.pdf — transcribed from the scanned pages, wording as printed.