UGC NET ENGLISH BATCH
Created by Boostabrain Senior Academic Faculty & JRF Panel
What You Will Get In This Batch
Live & Recorded Classes
Interactive lectures with full HD recordings & multi-speed control
Daily Practice Problems (DPPs)
Unit-wise question sets with step-by-step solutions
Handwritten Notes & Mind Maps
Crisp chapter summaries for rapid last-minute revision
All India CBT Mock Tests
Real NTA test interface with percentile & ranking analysis
Direct Faculty Doubt Clearance
Daily live doubt sessions directly with subject mentors
Full Course Validity
Unrestricted video access and PDF downloads for the batch validity period
Course Description & Overview
Syllabus & Unit-Wise Structure
100% NTA Exam pattern aligned syllabus
- Elizabethan and Jacobean drama – Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson
- Restoration and 18th-century comedy – Congreve, Goldsmith, Sheridan
- Modern drama – Ibsen, Shaw, Beckett, Pinter, Osborne
- American drama – O’Neill, Miller, Tennessee Williams
- Indian drama in English and translation – Karnad, Tendulkar, Dattani
- Postcolonial drama – Soyinka and others
- Forms – tragedy, comedy, absurd theatre
- Chaucer and Spenser
- Metaphysical poets; Milton
- Neoclassical poetry – Dryden, Pope
- Romantic poetry
- Victorian poetry
- Modernist poetry – Yeats, Eliot
- Post-war and contemporary poetry
- American poetry – Whitman, Dickinson, Frost
- Indian English poetry – Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Kamala Das
- Poetic forms – sonnet, ode, elegy, dramatic monologue
- Rise of the novel – Defoe, Richardson, Fielding
- Austen and the Victorian novel – Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy
- Modernist fiction – Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence
- Post-war and contemporary fiction
- American fiction – Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, Morrison
- Indian English novel – Anand, Narayan, Raja Rao, Rushdie, Roy
- Short story – Poe, Chekhov, O. Henry and Indian writers
- Bacon; Addison and Steele
- Johnson, Lamb, Hazlitt
- Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold
- Twentieth-century prose – Orwell, Woolf
- Autobiography, biography and travel writing
- Indian non-fiction – Gandhi, Nehru, Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Linguistics – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- Structure of English – sounds, word formation, sentence patterns
- History of the English language
- Varieties of English
- Language teaching – grammar-translation, direct, audio-lingual, communicative, task-based
- Language testing
- History of English in India; Macaulay’s Minute
- English as a second language; Indian varieties of English
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- English and Indian languages; translation
- Evolution of Indian writing in English
- Language policy and English education
- Birmingham school – Williams, Hoggart, Stuart Hall
- Popular culture and media studies
- Gramsci and hegemony; Frankfurt school and the culture industry
- Identity – race, gender, class, caste
- Subaltern and postcolonial studies
- Ecocriticism and digital culture
- Classical criticism – Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus
- Renaissance to neoclassical – Sidney, Dryden, Johnson
- Romantic criticism – Wordsworth, Coleridge
- Victorian – Arnold, Pater
- Twentieth century – Eliot, Richards, Leavis; New Criticism
- Indian aesthetics – rasa, dhvani, alankara, riti, vakrokti, auchitya
- Structuralism – Saussure, Barthes
- Post-structuralism and deconstruction – Derrida, Foucault
- Psychoanalytic criticism – Freud, Lacan
- Marxist criticism – Althusser, Jameson, Eagleton
- Feminist criticism – Showalter, Gilbert and Gubar, Cixous, Kristeva, Butler
- New Historicism and cultural materialism
- Postcolonial theory – Said, Spivak, Bhabha
- Reader-response, ecocriticism, queer theory
- Research – concept, types and methods
- Research process and design
- Primary and secondary sources; archival research
- Documentation and citation – MLA Handbook
- Thesis and article writing
- Research ethics and plagiarism
- Digital humanities tools
Frequently Asked Questions
All live classes are streamed directly inside the Boostabrain App and Web Portal. If you miss a live session, high-quality recorded backup videos with multi-speed controls will be made available within 2 hours.
Yes! You will receive downloadable unit-wise PDF study notes, handwritten mind maps, and Daily Practice Problems (DPPs) after every class.
This course comes with 6 months full access validity from the date of enrollment.
You can ask live text/audio doubts during classes. Additionally, our faculty mentors provide daily direct doubt resolution sessions.
Yes, you can watch classes on Android mobile app, iOS app, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers.
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