CUET PG English Literature Syllabus PDF

**1. English Literature from Classical to Contemporary** - Classical Literature (Greek, Roman, and Sanskrit) - Major works of authors like Homer, Virgil, Sophocles, Kalidasa - Medieval Literature - Chaucer and other medieval English authors - Renaissance Literature - Shakespeare, M...

**1. English Literature from Classical to Contemporary** - Classical Literature (Greek, Roman, and Sanskrit) - Major works of authors like Homer, Virgil, Sophocles, Kalidasa - Medieval Literature - Chaucer and other medieval English authors - Renaissance Literature - Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Milton - 17th & 18th Century Literature - Metaphysical poets (John Donne), Restoration Drama, Augustan prose and poetry (Dryden, Pope, Swift, Addison) - Romantic Literature - Major Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron - Victorian Literature - Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, Browning, Thomas Hardy - Modern and Postmodern Literature - James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Harold Pinter - Indian Literature in English - R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh **2. Genres and Movements** - Poetry (Epic, Lyric, Sonnet, Elegy, Satire) - Drama (Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Absurd Drama) - Novel (Picaresque, Gothic, Historical, Realist, Modernist) - Short Story - Literary Criticism and Theory - Classical criticism (Aristotle's Poetics) - Romantic criticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge) - Modern criticism (New Criticism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism) - Feminist Criticism, Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Marxist Criticism **3. Critical Approaches** - Formalist, Structuralist, and Deconstructionist approaches - Psychoanalytic and Reader-response theories - Feminist, Queer, Marxist, and Postcolonial criticism **4. Literary Terms and Devices** - Figures of speech, narrative techniques, dramatic devices - Key concepts: Allegory, Irony, Paradox, Symbolism, Imagery, Allusion **5. Cultural and Historical Contexts** - Understanding the socio-political and cultural background of various literary periods - Colonialism and postcolonialism - Modernism and Postmodernism **6. English Language** - Evolution of the English language - Grammar, Syntax, Phonology