LECTURER IN ENGLISH : COLLEGIATE EDUCATION (CATEGORY NO. 578/2012)

LECTURER IN ENGLISH  : COLLEGIATE EDUCATION

(CATEGORY NO. 578/2012) 

Part I Chaucer to Neo Classicism 

Poetry 

• Geoffrey Chaucer "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales 

• Edmund Spenser "Prothalamion" 

• William Shakespeare Sonnets -18,29,57,124,129 

• John Donne Forbidding "The Canonization" , " A Valediction :Mourning" 

• John Milton Paradise Lost ( Book IX) 

• John Dryden "Mac Flecknoe" 

• Alexander Pope "Atticus Passage" ( From Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot) 

• Thomas Gray “Elegy written in a Country Churchyard” 

Prose 

1. Francis Bacon 

Drama 

'Of Studies", "Of Truth'

1. Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus 

2. Shakespeare Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Julius Caesar 

3. Webster The Duchess of Malfi 

4. Congreve The Way of the World 

5. Sheridan The School for Scandal 

  

Fiction 

1. Fielding Tom ]ones 

Part II The Romantics and the Victorians 

Poetry 

 

1. 'William Blake "The Lamb" , "The Tiger" 

2. William Wordsworth "Ode: Intimations of 

Immortality" 

3. Samuel Coleridge "Dejection : An Ode " 

4. P. B. Shelly "Ode to the West Wind" 

5. John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn " 

6. Alfred Tennyson "Ulysses" 

7. Robert Browning "My Last Duchess" 

8. Mathew Arnold "Dover Beach" 

9. Hopkins "The Windhover" 

10. D. G. Rossetti " The Blessed Damozel" 

Prose 

 

1. Charles Lamb "Dream Children", " Poor 

Relations" 

2. J. S. Mill Subjugation " On the Equality of Sexes" ( 

From The subjugation of 

Women) 

Drama 

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest 

Fiction 

1. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 

2. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 

 3. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights 

 4. George Eliot The Mill on The Floss

 5. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 

6. Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge 

Part III - Twentieth Century Literature 

Poetry 

1. W. B. Yeats " Easter 1916", " Second Coming" 

• 2. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land 

 

3. W.H Auden "Unknown Citizen" 

4. Wilfred Owen "Strange Meetings" 

5. Dylan Thomas "Poem In October" 

6. Philip Larkin "Church Going" 

7. Ted Hughes "Hawk Roosting" 

8. Thorn Gunn "In Santa Maria Del Popolo" 

9. Seamus Heaney "The Tollund Man 

Prose 

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Virginia Woolf "Modern Fiction" 

Drama 

1. T.S Eliot The Murder in the Cathedral 

2. Bernard Shaw Pygmalion 

3. J.M. Synge Riders to the Sea 

4. Samuel Becket Waiting for Godot 

5. Harold Pinter The Birthday Party 

6. Edward Bond Lear T 

Fiction 

1. James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 

2. D.H Lawrence Sons and Lovers 

3. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 

4. Graham Greene Heart of the matter 

5. William Golding The Lord of the Flies 

6. Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook 

7. Allen Sillitoe The Loneliness of the long distance runner 

Part IV - Literary Criticism and Theory 

1. Theories of "Rasa", Dhwani" and "Alankara" 

2. Aristotle "Poetics" 

3. Longinus "On the Sublime" 

4. Sidney "An Apology for Poetry" 

5. Dryden "Preface to the Fables" 

6. Dr. Johnson "Preface to Shakespeare 

7. Wordsworth "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" 

8. Coleridge "Biographia Literaria" (Chapter XIV) 

9. Arnold "Study of Poetry" 

10. T.S. Eliot "Tradition and Individual Talent" 

11. Cleanth Brooks "The Language of Paradox" 

12. Northrop Frye "Archetypes of Literature" 

13. Lionel Trilling "Freud and Literature" 

14. Viktor Shklovsky "Art as Technique" 15. Raymond Williams "Realism and the Contemporary Novel" 

 16. Jacques Derrida 'Structure, Sign and Play in theDiscourses of 

Human Sciences" 

17. Elaine Showalter "Towards a Feminist Poetics" 

18. Michel Foucault "What's an Author" 

19. Jacques Lacan "The Insistence of the Letter of the Consciousness" 

20 Sharankumar Limbala "Dalit Literature and Aesthetics" (from Towards an 

Aesthetic of Dalit Literature ) 

Part V - History and Structure of English Language and Linguistics 

1. Indo- European family of languages - Grimm's law, Verner's law, Ablaut, Umlaut 

2. Old English - Dialects, Important Characteristics - Vocabulary and Grammar, Literature of 

the period 

3. Middle English - The Norman Conquest - Dialects, Changes in Grammar and 

 Vocabulary - Standard English - Literature of the period. 

4. Modern English - Impact of Renaissance on Grammar and Vocabulary- Dictionaries - 

 Translation of the Bible- Contributions of major writers ( Spenser, Shakespeare and 

 Milton) - Impact of the British empire on English 

5. Growth of Vocabulary and Semantic Changes 

6. Varieties of English - British, American and Indian 

 

7. Phonology- Suprasegmental features 

8. Morphology, Syntax 

9. Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky 

10. Traditional Grammar, Modern Grammar and T G Grammar 

11. Varieties of Language - Style, Dialect, Register, Pidgins, Creole and idiolect 

  

 

12. Branches of Linguistics - Historical, Comparative, Sociolinguistics,

 Psycholinguistics Applied Linguistics and Nero Linguistics 

Part VI – Indian Literature in English, American Literature and 

Women's Writing 

Poetry 

1. Toru Dutt “Our Casuarina Tree” 

2. Sri Aurobindo “Rose of God” 

3. Tagore Gitanjali (1-10) 

4. Ezekiel “Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher” 

5. Kamala Das “Introduction” 

6. Walt Whitman “Out of the Cradle Elndlessly Rocking” 

7. Emily Dickinson “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, 

 “I Died for Beauty” 

8. Robert Frost “Apple Picking”, “Road not Taken” 

9. Sylvia Plath “Daddy” 

10. Akka Mahadevi “It was like a Stream “and” Brother You've Come” 

 

Prose 

1. B. R Ambedkar 

2. Emerson 

'Philosophy of Hinduism" 

'Self Reliance"

Drama 

1. GirishKarnad Hayavadana 

2. Eugene O' Neill Emperor Jones 

3. Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie 

 Fiction 

1. Mulk Raj Anand Coolie 

2. Salman Rushdie Midnights Children 

3. Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 

4. Faulkner The Sound and the fury 

5. Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man 

6. Amiri Baraka Dutchman 

7. Maya Angelou Phenomenal Women 

8. Judith Wright Finale 

9. Lalithambika Andarjanam Pradikara Devatha 

10. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye 

11. Shashi Deshpande That Long Silence 

12. Manjula Padmanaban The Harvest 

Part VII : New Trends in Literature 

1. Post Colonialism 

2. Eco Criticism 

3. Queer Theory 

4. Trauma Theory 

5. New Feminisms 

6. New Historicism 

7. Culture Studies 

8. Diasporic Writing 

9. Public Sphere 

10. Meta Narratives, Hyper Reality & Simulacra Part VIII Research Methodology/Teaching Aptitude 

 

I. TEACHING APTITUDE 

 

• Teaching: Nature, objectives, characteristics and basic requirements; 

• Learner's characteristics; 

• Factors affecting teaching; 

• Methods of teaching; 

• Teaching aids; 

• Evaluation systems. 

 

II. RESEARCH APTITUDE 

 

• Research: Meaning, Characteristics and types; 

• Steps of research; 

• Methods of research; 

• Research Ethics; 

• Paper, article, workshop, seminar, conference and symposium; 

• Thesis writing: its characteristics and format. 

 

Part IX(a) Salient Features of Indian Constitution 

 Part IX (a) Salient Features of Indian Constitution ( 5 Marks)

Salient features of the Constitution - Preamble- Its significance and its place in the interpretation 

of the Constitution. 

 

Fundamental Rights - Directive Principles of State Policy - Relation between Fundamental Rights 

and Directive Principles - Fundamental Duties. 

 

Executive - Legislature - Judiciary - Both at Union and State Level. - Other Constitutional 

Authorities. 

Centre-State Relations - Legislative - Administrative and Financial. 

Services under the Union and the States. 

Emergency Provisions. 

Amendment Provisions of the Constitution. 

 

 Part IX(b) Social Welfare Legislations and Programmes 

Social Service Legislations like Right to Information Act, Prevention of atrocities against 

Women & Children, Food Security Act, Environmental Acts etc. and Social Welfare Programmes 

like Employment Guarantee Programme, Organ and Blood Donation etc. 

 

Part X(a) Renaissance in Kerala 

TOWARDS A NEW SOCIETY 

Introduction to English education - various missionary organisations and their functioning- founding of 

educational institutions, factories.printing press etc. EFFORTS TO REFORM THE SOCIETY 

(A) Socio-Religious reform Movements 

SNDP Yogam, Nair Service Society, Yogakshema Sabha, Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham, Vaala 

Samudaya Parishkarani Sabha, Samathwa Samajam, Islam Dharma Paripalana Sangham, Prathyaksha 

Raksha Daiva Sabha, Sahodara Prasthanam etc. 

(B) Struggles and Social Revolts 

Upper cloth revolts.Channar agitation, Vaikom Sathyagraha, Guruvayoor Sathyagraha, Paliyam 

Sathyagraha. Kuttamkulam Sathyagraha, Temple Entry Proclamation, Temple Entry Act .Malyalee 

Memorial, Ezhava Memorial etc. 

Malabar riots, Civil Disobedience Movement, Abstention ovement etc. 

ROLE OF PRESS IN RENAISSANCE 

Malayalee, Swadeshabhimani, Vivekodayam, Mithavadi, Swaraj, Malayala Manorama, Bhashaposhini, 

Mathnubhoomi, Kerala Kaumudi, Samadarsi, Kesari, AI-Ameen, Prabhatham, Yukthivadi, etc 

AWAKENING THROUGH LITERATURE 

Novel, Drama, Poetry, Purogamana Sahithya Prasthanam, Nataka Prashtanam, Library movement etc 

WOMEN AND SOCIAL CHANGE 

Parvathi Nenmenimangalam, Arya Pallam, A V Kuttimalu Amma, Lalitha Prabhu.Akkamma 

Cheriyan, Anna Chandi, Lalithambika Antharjanam and others 

LEADERS OF RENAISSANCE 

Thycaud Ayya Vaikundar, Sree Narayana Guru, Ayyan Kali.Chattampi Swamikal, Brahmananda 

Sivayogi, Vagbhadananda, Poikayil Yohannan(Kumara Guru) Dr Palpu, Palakkunnath Abraham Malpan, 

Mampuram Thangal, Sahodaran Ayyappan, Pandit K P Karuppan, Pampadi John Joseph, Mannathu 

Padmanabhan, V T Bhattathirippad, Vakkom Abdul Khadar Maulavi, Makthi Thangal, Blessed Elias 

Kuriakose Chaavra, Barrister G P Pillai, TK Madhavan, Moorkoth Kumaran, C. Krishnan, 

K P Kesava Menon, Dr.Ayyathan Gopalan, C V Kunjuraman, Kuroor Neelakantan Namboothiripad, 

Velukkutty Arayan, K P Vellon, P K Chathan Master, K Kelappan, P. Krishna Pillai, A K Gopalan, T R 

Krishnaswami Iyer, C Kesavan. Swami Ananda Theerthan , M C Joseph, Kuttippuzha Krishnapillai and 

others 

LITERARY FIGURES 

Kodungallur Kunhikkuttan Thampuran, KeralaVarma Valiyakoyi Thampuran, Kandathil Varghesc Mappila. 

Kumaran Asan, Vallathol Narayana Menon, Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer, G Sankara Kurup, 

Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, Chandu Menon, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Kesav Dev, Thakazhi 

Sivasankara Pillai, Ponkunnam Varky, S K Pottakkad and others 

 

Part X(b) General Knowledge and Current Affairs 

 General Knowledge and Current Affairs 

 

NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from 

other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may also appear 

in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be 

covered in the question paper.