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The Govt. Degree College (GDC) Assistant Professor English exam emphasizes a broad yet structured syllabus across 11 units, blending canonical works with contemporary areas like linguistics and translation studies. Govt. Degree College Assistant Professor English Exam 2025 syllabus is now available, covering comprehensive English Literature from 16th-20th century alongside linguistics, Indian writing, and modern theories. Sahitya Classes provides targeted preparation with Prof. Vineet Pandey’s expert guidance to help you secure this prestigious government position.
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Syllabus
English Literature (16th to 20th Century)
Unit-I — Forms of Literature
- Background to Various Literary Trends and Movements
Unit-II — Poetry
- Geofrey Chaucer: Prologue to The Canterbury Tales(Modern version)
- John Donne: The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Morning, The Ecstasy, The Sunne Rising
- Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
- Edmund Spenser: Epithalamion
- John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book 1
- Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock(Canto 1 and 2)
- William Blake: The Tyger, The Lamb
- William Wordsworth: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Ode: On Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, The Prelude(Book 1), Ode to Duty
- T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel
- John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale
- B. Shelley: Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, To a Skylark
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Defence of Lucknow, Ulysses, The Lotus-Eaters
- Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach, Scholar Gypsy
- S. Eliot: The Waste Land
- B. Yeats: The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Prayer for my Daughter
- Seamus Heaney: Digging, Punishment
- H. Auden: In the Memory of W. B. Yeats, Musee des Beaux Arts, The Shield of Achilles
- Philip Larkin: Church Going, Poetry of Departures
- Ted Hughes: The Thought Fox, Hawk Roosting
Unit-III — Drama
- Christopher Marlowe: Faustus
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Twelfth Night
- John Webster: Duchess of Malfi
- Ben Jonson: Volpone
- Aphra Behn: The Rover
- Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
- B. Shaw: Candida
- S. Eliot: The Family Reunion
- Harold Pinter: The Homecoming
- Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
- John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Unit-IV — Fiction and Prose
- Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- George Eliot: Silas Marner
- Charles Dickens: Hard Times: For These Times
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
- H. Lawrence: The Rainbow
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies
- Graham Greene: The Power and The Glory
- Francis Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Adversity
- Joseph Addison: The Spectator’s Account of Himself, Sir Roger at Home
- Thomas Carlyle: The Hero as Man of Letters
- James Stuart Mill: On Liberty
- Bertrand Russell: Science and Values, Science and War(from The Impact of Science on Society)
Unit-V — Linguistics
- Descriptive Linguistics; Generative Linguistics
- Scope and branches of Linguistics: Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Stylistics
- Language Variations: Dialect, Register, Pidgins, Creoles, Processes of standardization of Language, Language Typology
- Major Concepts: Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic, Synchronic and Diachronic, Competence and Performance, Innate Hypothesis
- Approaches, Linguistic Principles and Techniques in Language Teaching
- Methods of Language Teaching: Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-Lingual Method, Communicative Language Teaching
- Teaching of Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
- Error Analysis; Technological Aids in Language, Language Testing
Unit-VI — Indian Writing in English
- Toru Dutta: The Lotus
- Rabindranath Tagore: Thou hast made me Endless, Leave this Chanting and Singing, I am like a Remnant of Cloud
- Sarojini Naidu: Song of Radha, The Milk Maid
- Raja Rao: On the Ganga Ghat and Other Stories
- Girish Karnad: Nagamandala
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
- Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
- Anita Desai: The Fire on the Mountain
- Jayanta Mahapatra: Hunger, Grandfather
- K. Ramanujan: A River, Another View of Grace, An Introduction, The Looking Glass
- Kamala Das: An Introduction, The Looking Glass
Unit-VII — American Literature
- Walt Whitman: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, One’s-Self I Sing
- Robert Frost: Mending Wall, After Apple Picking, The Gift Outright
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
- Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
- Herman Melville: Moby Dick
- Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus, Daddy
- Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
- Tennessee Williams: A Glass Menagerie
- Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Harlem
Unit-VIII — New Literature in English
- D. Hope: The Death of the Bird
- Patrick White: The Solid Mandala
- Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin
- Derek Walcott: A Far Cry from Africa, Ruins of a Great House
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
- Wole Soyinka: A Dance of the Forest
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Decolonising the Mind
Unit-IX — Women Writing
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
- Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists
- Pratibha Ray: Yajnaseni
- Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman: Women to Men
- Gwendolyn Brooks: A Sunset of the City
- Adrienne Rich: Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law
- Vinda Nabar: Caste as Woman(Chapter One – Our Women, Their Women)
Unit-X — Literature in Translation
Main Concepts: Source Text, Target Text, Foreignization, Domestication, Equivalence, Skopos Theory, Kinds of Translation
- Translation Studies– Chapter One of Andre Lefevere’s Translating Literature
- India, England, France: a (post) colonial
- Translation and Society: The Emergence of a Conceptual Relationshipby Daniel Simeoni
- The Task of Translatorby Walter Benjamin
- Saadat Hasan Manto: Toba Tek Singh
- Munshi Premchand: The Gift of a Cow(tr. Gordon C. Roadarmel)
- Vijay Tendulkar: Silence! The Court is in Session
- Fakir Mohan Senapati: Six Acres and a Third
- Gustave Flaubert: Madam Bovary
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground
- Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil(Les Fleurs du mal)
Unit-XI — Literary Theory and Criticism
- Bharat Muni: The Natyasastra(Chapters VI and VII)
- Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
- Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare
- William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria(Chapter XIII)
- S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
- Ferdinand de Saussure: Nature of the Linguistic Sign
- Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
- Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
- Elaine Showalter: Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness
- Edward Said: Introduction to Orientalism
- Homi K. Bhabha: Introduction: Location of Culture(from The Location of Culture)
- Gayatri C. Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?
- Richard Kerridge: Ecocritical Approaches to Literary Form and Genre
Exam Details
Exact date, format (MCQ/written), cut-offs, and application process for the 2025 Govt. Degree College Assistant Professor exam will be announced via official state PSC/education dept. notifications, heck portals like state PSC websites regularly. Expect 150-200 questions, 2-3 hours duration, focusing 60% on literature, 40% on linguistics/theory/modern lit.
Why Sahitya Classes and Prof. Vineet Pandey?
Master this syllabus with Prof. Vineet Pandey (11×NET, 2×JRF, 17×SET). Complete notes, test series, video lectures, and doubt sessions tailored for GDC success. As Vineet sir and his team will give a you an in-depth detail of everything that is mentioned in the syllabus and with the help of that students can tackle any kind of question in the exam, even what feels like a question which is not from the mention syllabus for the students who have not prepared from the Sahitya classes, students of Sahitya classes can solve those question easily because of the strategy with which Vineet sir helps his students.
FAQs
Q1: Is GDC syllabus same as UGC NET?
A: Similar core lit but GDC adds more linguistics, translation, women writing. Our courses cover both.
Q2: Video lectures available?
A: Yes, full playlist on Sahitya Classes YouTube: “GDC Asst. Prof. English 2025 Syllabus Strategy.”
Q3: Test series included?
A: Practice session after the classes is given to the students In the live classes.
Q4: Mains/interview prep?
A: Complete guidance post-prelims.
Q5: Flexible for working aspirants?
A: Recorded sessions + live weekend batches.
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