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Admission & first meetingप्रवेश और पहली मुलाकातEnquire at your nearest NDSS centre, meet the teacher, fix the batch time and get your study material.
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Part 1 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 1Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 1: Old and Middle English PeriodUnit 2: Renaissance and Elizabethan AgeUnit 3: Puritan, Restoration and Neo-classical Age
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Part 2 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 2Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 4: Romantic AgeUnit 5: Victorian AgeUnit 6: Modern Age
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Unit tests & assignmentsयूनिट टेस्टRegular tests in the university / board pattern.
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Semester 5 exam (university / board)विश्वविद्यालय / बोर्ड परीक्षाPrevious papers and full revision before the exam.
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Online tests & resultऑनलाइन टेस्ट और रिज़ल्टTake the tests online; your marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
सिलेबस · पाठ्यक्रम
1 subject · 6 chapters · 28 topics
01Unit 1: Old and Middle English Period
4 टॉपिक+
- Old English literature: Beowulf
- Middle English: Chaucer, Langland, Gower
- Malory: Morte d'Arthur
- Miracle and morality plays
02Unit 2: Renaissance and Elizabethan Age
5 टॉपिक+
- The Renaissance and its features
- Spenser and Sidney
- University Wits and Shakespeare
- Francis Bacon
- Jacobean age and the King James Bible
03Unit 3: Puritan, Restoration and Neo-classical Age
6 टॉपिक+
- Milton and the Puritan age
- Restoration age: Dryden and comedy of manners
- Neo-classical age: Pope and Swift
- Periodical essay: Addison and Steele
- Samuel Johnson
- Rise of the novel
04Unit 4: Romantic Age
4 टॉपिक+
- Features of Romanticism
- Lyrical Ballads (1798): Wordsworth and Coleridge
- Byron, Shelley and Keats
- Romantic prose: Lamb and Hazlitt
05Unit 5: Victorian Age
4 टॉपिक+
- Victorian age: background and features
- Tennyson, Browning and Arnold
- Victorian novel: Dickens, Eliot, Hardy
- Victorian prose: Carlyle and Ruskin
06Unit 6: Modern Age
5 टॉपिक+
- Modernism and its features
- T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats
- Joyce and Woolf
- War poets
- Modern drama: Shaw and Beckett
About this course
आप यह कर पाएँगे
- Describe the major ages of English literature with their dates and features
- Name the major writers and works of each age
- Explain literary movements such as the Renaissance, Neo-classicism, Romanticism and Modernism
- Explain the social and historical background of each age
- Answer objective and essay questions on literary history
यह किसके लिए है
- B.A Semester 5 students with English as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
- Students preparing for TGT / PGT / UGC NET English
आपको क्या चाहिए
- English papers of Semesters 1-4
Online tests & result
Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
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सवाल
Which syllabus does this course follow?
It follows the UP State Universities NEP 2020 common minimum syllabus (MGKVP, VBSPU, Lucknow University and others) for B.A English, Semester 5. Where your own university's syllabus differs, the centre follows your university syllabus.
How will I be tested?
Unit-wise MCQ tests, short and long answer practice in university exam pattern, and a final mock paper.
How do I remember so many names and dates?
Age-wise charts of writers, works and dates are given and revised through weekly objective tests.
