ENGLISH LITERATURE CSS SYLLABUS (100 MARKS)
I. Essays (10 Marks)
- Bertrand Russell
- The Conquest of Happiness
- George Orwell
- Politics and the English Language
- The Prevention of Literature
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Transcendentalist
- Self-Reliance
II. Short Stories (10 Marks)
- Somerset Maugham
- The Lotus-Eater
- G.K. Chesterton
- A Somewhat Improbable Story
- O’Henry
- The Gift of the Magi
III. Poetry (20 Marks)
- William Wordsworth
- Resolution and Independence
- Lines Composed Few Miles Above, Tintern Abbey
- John Keats
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode to Autumn
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Ulysses
- The Lady of Shalott
- Yeats
- A Dialogue of Self and Soul
- The Second Coming
- Eliot
- The Wasteland
- Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Philip Larkin
- Maturity
- Continuing to Live
- The Trees
- Wallace Stevens
- A Postcard from the Volcano
- Continual Conversation with a Silent Man
- Dry Loaf
OR
- Walt Whitman
- As I Ponder’d in Silence
- Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
- This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
IV. Drama (20 Marks)
- Shakespeare
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- Twelfth Night
- William Congreve
- The Way of the World
- Shaw
- Pygmalion
- Heartbreak House
- Harold Pinter
- The Caretaker
- Samuel Beckett
- Waiting for Godot
- Eugene O’Neill
- Long Day’s Journey into Night
V. Novels (20 Marks)
- Thomas Hardy
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- D.H. Lawrence
- Sons and Lovers
- George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-four
- James Joyce
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Iris Murdoch
- Under the Net
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter
OR
- William Faulkner
- The Sound and the Fury
VI. Literary Theory & Criticism (20 Marks)
- Structuralism
- Marxism
- Deconstructionism
- Psychoanalytic criticism
- Feminist criticism
- Postcolonial Criticism
FPSC RECOMMENDED BOOKS List for ENGLISH LITERATURE CSS SYLLABUS
| S.No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The basics Literary Theory. (Second edition). Routledge. | Bertens, H. (2008). |
| 2. | Literary Theory: An Introduction. (Anniversary Edition). | Eagleton, E. (2008). |
| 3. | A New Handbook of Literary Terms. | Mikics, W. (2007). |
| 4. | A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry. | Roberts, N. (2003). |
| 5. | A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. (Fifth edition). | Selden, R., Widdowson, P., & Brooker, P. (2005) |
| 6. | Twentieth Century British Drama. | Smart, J. (2001). |
| 7. | Modern Critical Views & Interpretations, ed: 80’s and 90’s editions. | Harold Bloom (these include all range of authors and their works given above) |
| 8. | A Companion to 20th Century Drama. Oxford: Blackwell. | Krasner, David. (2005). |
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