IMP Works

IMP Works

A list of important works in English literature for the NET exam, focusing on drama and poetry:

Drama:

• William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Tempest
• Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
• George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion, Arms and the Man
• Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband
• Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler
• Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie
• Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
• Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot, Endgame
• Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull
• Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia
• 11. Arthur Miller - All My Sons, A View from the Bridge
• Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
• Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• August Wilson - Fences, The Piano Lesson
• Tom Stoppard - The Real Thing, Travesties
• David Mamet - Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna
• Caryl Churchill - Top Girls, Cloud Nine
• Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party, The Homecoming
• Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh
• Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Antigone

Poetry:

• Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
• William Shakespeare - Sonnets
• John Milton - Paradise Lost
• Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock
• William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience
• John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ode to the West Wind, Prometheus Unbound
• T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land, Four Quartets
• William Butler Yeats - The Tower, The Second Coming
• W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues, Musee des Beaux Arts
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnets from the Portuguese
• Robert Browning - My Last Duchess, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Sylvia Plath - Ariel, Daddy
• Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues, Harlem
• Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Still I Rise
• Seamus Heaney - Digging, Death of a Naturalist
• Derek Walcott - Omeros, The Schooner Flight
• Ted Hughes - Crow, Birthday Letters

Criticism

Here are some important works of literary criticism for the NET exam:

• Aristotle - Poetics
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria
• T.S. Eliot - "Tradition and the Individual Talent," "The Function of Criticism"
• Virginia Woolf - "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"
• Northrop Frye - Anatomy of Criticism
• Roland Barthes - "The Death of the Author," "The Pleasure of the Text"
• Harold Bloom - The Anxiety of Influence
• Edward Said - Orientalism
• Michel Foucault - The Archaeology of Knowledge
• Jacques Derrida - Of Grammatology
• Cleanth Brooks - The Well Wrought Urn
• W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley - "The Intentional Fallacy," "The Affective Fallacy"
• Lionel Trilling - The Liberal Imagination
• Raymond Williams - Marxism and Literature
• Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic
• Homi K. Bhabha - The Location of Culture
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
• Terry Eagleton - Literary Theory: An Introduction
• Fredric Jameson - The Political Unconscious
• Judith Butler - Gender Trouble
  

Prose

    Prose refers to the ordinary form of written language, typically without a metrical structure or formal line breaks. It is the most common form of written expression and is used in various genres such as novels, short stories, essays, and non-fiction works. Prose allows for greater flexibility in sentence structure and narrative style compared to poetry. Some notable examples of prose works include:

• "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
• "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
• "1984" by George Orwell
• "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville
• "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
• "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
• "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• "Middlemarch" by George Eliot
• "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
• "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
• "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
• "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf
• "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
• "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
• "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
• "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis

    These are just a few examples of significant prose works in English literature. Prose encompasses a vast range of styles, themes, and narrative techniques, so exploring a variety of works will provide a broader understanding of the form.

    These works represent a range of influential literary criticism from different periods and perspectives. It's important to study various critical approaches, such as formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and others, to have a well-rounded understanding of literary criticism. Additionally, make sure to refer to the specific syllabus and recommended reading list provided by the exam conducting authority for a comprehensive study plan.

    These are just a few examples of important works in English literature for the NET exam. It's also important to familiarize yourself with literary movements, critical theories, and other major authors and their works. Make sure to consult the syllabus and recommended reading list provided by the exam conducting authority for a comprehensive study plan.