MPPSC Asst. Professor 2026

SYLLABUS

Syllabus

OVERVIEW

GENERAL PAPER

British Literature through Ages (Selfpaced Videos by Dr Kalyani Vallath)

1 Orientation – History of English Literature — PDF BL1

01:54:49
2 Renaissance (Beginnings and University Wits) — PDF BL2

02:04:06
3 Renaissance (Beginnings and University Wits Contd.)

59:12
4 Elizabethan (Shakespeare Part 1) — PDF BL3

49:58
5 Elizabethan (Shakespeare Part 2)

01:57:12
6 Jacobean-Civil War (Jonson, Metaphysicals, Milton) — PDF BL4

01:43:18
7 Restoration-Neoclassicism Part 1 — PDF BL5

01:55:05
8 Restoration-Neoclassicism Part 2

48:56
9 Restoration-Neoclassicism Part 3

45:01
10 Neoclassicism (18th C Novel, Transitional Poets Part 1) — PDF BL6

01:17:05
11 Neoclassicism (18th C Novel, Transitional Poets Part 2)

01:31:15
12 Romanticism (Gothic Romance, Writers of Romanticism) PDF — BL7 & 8

02:06:57
13 Victorian Poetry — PDF BL9

01:50:39
14 Victorian Prose — PDF BL10

01:58:56
15 Victorian Novel — PDF BL11

01:56:23
16 Victorian (End of the 19th C Wilde, Shaw Arnold, Yeats, Hopkins — PDF BL12

01:59:08
17 Modern Age (Early 20th Century Conrad Kipling Galswothy Shaw) — PDF BL13

01:52:13
18 Modernist Literature in Britain — PDF BL14

02:11:17
19 Modernist Literature in Britain

58:11

British Literature Through Ages (LIVE CLASSES)

UNIT I Chaucer to Shakespeare (Syllabus-Based Selfpaced Videos)

Shakespeare Sonnet 23

19:24
Shakespeare Sonnet 24

18:37
Shakespeare Sonnet 26

21:37
Shakespeare Sonnet 27

16:40
Shakespeare Sonnet 44

19:06
Spenser – Faerie Queene

41:14
William Shakespeare- Hamlet Part 1/9

36:20
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 2/9

35:10
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 3/9

28:27
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 4/9

36:52
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 5/9

34:36
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 6/9

42:19
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 7/9

42:25
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 8/9

24:22
William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 9/9

44:41
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

31:28
William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice

59:19
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus Part 1/2

47:42
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus Part 2/2

49:00
William Shakespeare : Tempest Part 1

01:01:20
William Shakespeare – Tempest Part 2

37:35
Willam Shakespeare – Tempest Analysis

14:05

UNIT I Chaucer to Shakespeare (LIVE CLASSES)

Francis Bacon – Essays (11/03/26)

01:59:57
Francis Bacon – Essay & Geoffrey Chaucer and his Works (16/03/26)

02:02:18
Beginning of the English Drama, Mystery, Miracle & Mortality Plays (18/03/26)

01:53:03
Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus (23/03/26)

02:11:23
Edmund Spencer – The Faerie Queene (27/03/26)

02:07:12
Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus (30/03/26)

01:56:52
William Langland – Piers Plowman (01/04/26)

01:18:22
William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice (08/04/26)

01:46:59
Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbiry Tales & Ben Jonson – Every Man in His humour (15/04/26)

02:10:29
William Shakespeare – Sonnet 23 (18/04/26)

02:12:11
Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur (08/05/26)

01:55:23

UNIT II Jacobean to Restoration Periods (Syllabus-Based Selfpaced Videos)

UNIT II Jacobean to Restoration Periods (LIVE CLASSES)

UNIT III Augustan to Romantic Periods (Syllabus-Based Videos)

Robinson Crusoe Part 1/4

01:12:08
Robinson Crusoe Part 2/4

01:08:25
Robinson Crusoe Part 3/4

01:24:10
Robinson Crusoe Part 4/4

48:53
Addison & Steele Spectator Coverley Papers

23:30
Lives of the Poets – Johnson (RECORDING by KV)

16:00
Ode on the Intimations of Immortality (RECORDING by KV)

01:40:18
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (RECORDING by KV)

30:45
To a Skylark by Shelley (RECORDING BY KV)

25:23
Ode on a Grecian Urn by Keats (RECORDING by KV)

26:20
To Autumn by John Keats (RECORDING by KV)

17:11
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (RECORDING by KV)

57:43
Tom Jones – Fielding (RECORDING by KV)

35:00
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (RECORDING by KV)

16:56

UNIT III Augustan Age to Romantic Period (LIVE CLASSES)

UNIT IV Victorian Period to Pre-Raphaelites (Syllabus-Based Selfpaced Videos)

UNIT IV Victorian Period to Pre-Raphaelites (LIVE CLASSES)

UNIT V – Modern British Literature (Syllabus-Based Self paced Videos)

A Prayer for My Daughter (RECORDING by KV)

21:57
Riders to the Sea – Synge (RECORDING by KV)

22:07
A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen (RECORDING by KV)

39:02
Daddy by Sylvia Plath (RECORDING by KV)

01:12:01
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath (RECORDING by KV)

38:51
Whitsun Weddings – Philip Larkin (ONLY PDF)
Fern Hill – Dylan Thomas (RECORDING by KV)

20:08
On the Rule of the Road – AG Gardiner (RECORDING by KV)

12:35
On Forgetting – Robert Lynd (RECORDING by KV)

13:46
The Divine WIthin – Huxley

26:28
A Passage to India Part 1/2 (RECORDING by KV)

01:00:10
A Passage to India Part 2/2 (RECORDING by KV)

34:17
Sons and Lovers (RECORDING by KV)

40:01
Portrait of the Artist Part 1/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:39:16
Portrait of the Artist Part 2/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:03:34
Portrait of the Artist Part 3/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:02:06
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway 1/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:12:27
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway 2/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:29:13
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway 3/3 (RECORDING by KV)

34:36

UNIT VI Literary Theory, Criticism (Syllabus-Based Selfpaced Videos)

Rasa Theory

50:39
Dhvani Theory

49:31
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (RECORDING by KV)

20:02
The Study of Poetry by Arnold (PDF, NET VIDEO by KV)

01:44:01
Tradition and the Individual Talent Part 1/2 (RECORDING by KV)

01:13:30
Tradition and the Individual Talent Part 2/2 (RECORDING by KV)

01:20:21
IA Richards – Principles of Literary Criticism and Two Uses of Language (RECORDING by KV)

59:54
The Nature of the Linguistic Sign – Saussure (RECORDING by KV)

46:08
Towards a Feminist Poetics – Showalter (RECORDING by KV)

37:52
The Scope of Orientalism – Edward Said (RECORDING by KV)

30:31
Literary Criticism Aristotle, Horace, Longinus (NET Video by KV)

01:50:54

UNIT VI Literary Theory, Criticism (LIVE CLASSES)

UNIT VII Indian Literature (Syllabus-Based Texts)

Swami Vivekanand – India Our Motherland (ONLY PDF)
J Krishnamurti – Individual and Self

18:21
APJ Abdul Kalam – Wings of Fire (ONLY PDF)
MK Gandhi – My Experiments with Truth (RECORDING by KV)

51:05
Untouchable Part 1/4 (RECORDING by KV)

49:55
Untouchable Part 2/4 (RECORDING by KV)

28:57
Untouchable Part 3/4 (RECORDING by KV)

33:15
Untouchable Part 4/4 (RECORDING by KV)

01:06:54
The Serpent and the Rope Part 1/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:02:19
The Serpent and the Rope Part 2/3 (RECORDING by KV)

46:41
The Serpent and the Rope Part 3/3 (RECORDING by KV)

01:10:03

UNIT-VII Indian Writing in English and Indian Literature in English (LIVE CLASSES)

Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali (06/05/26)

01:44:20
Kalidas – Abhigyana Shakuntalam (11/05/26)

01:46:24
Kalidas – Abhigyana Shakuntalam 2 (13/05/26)

02:00:29
GirishKarnad – Hayavadan 1/2 (18/05/26)

02:06:04
RK Narayan – The Guide 1/2 (20/05/26)

01:58:54
RK Narayan – The Guide 2/2 (25/05/26)

01:48:16
Robert Frost – Birches & Mahesh Dattani – Dance Like a Man (01/06/26)

01:56:04
Mahesh Dattani – Dance Like a Man & Selected Indian Poems (03/06/26)

01:41:38
Nissim Ezčkiel & A K Ramanujan (08/06/26)

01:23:48

UNIT VIII American and Non-British (Syllabus-Based Selfpaced Videos)

Self-Reliance by Emerson (RECORDING by KV)

35:39
Civil Disobedience – Thoreau (RECORDING by KV)

41:53
Whitman – Song of Myself (ONLY PDF)
Whitman – When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (RECORDING by KV)

25:13
Mourning Becomes Electra – O’Neill (RECORDING by KV)

31:56
Patrick White – Happy Valley (ONLY PDF)
Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (RECORDING by KV)

38:28
Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (RECORDING by KV)

21:53
Bharti Mukherjee – Jasmine (ONLY PDF)

UNIT- VIII American and other Non-British English Literatures (LIVE CLASSES)

UNIT -X Research Methodology (LIVE CLASSES)

TOPIC WISE QUIZ

UNIT -I Chaucer to Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare -Hamlet
William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Ben Johnson – Every Man in His Humour
Francis Bacon – Of Truth
Francis Bacon – Of Studies
UNIT II Jacobean to Restoration Periods
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress
Alexander Pope – Rape of the Lock
UNIT III Augustan Age to Romantic Period
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth – Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
P.B. Shelley – Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats-Ode on a Nightingale
UNIT IV Victorian Period to Pre-Raphaelites
Lord Tennyson – Lotos -Eaters
Lord Tennyson – Ulysses
Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach
Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
UNIT V – Modern British Literature
W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming
A Prayer for My Daughter
T.S.Eliot – The Wasteland
A Doll’s House
Sylvia Plath – Daddy
On The Rule Of The Road
James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
UNIT VI Literary Theory, Criticism
Rasa Theory
Dhvani Theory
Poetics
Aristotle – Poetics
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Study of Poetry
William Wordsworth – Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
T.S. Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Nature of Linguistic Sign
Towards A Feminist Poetics
UNIT-VII Indian Writing in English and Indian Literature in English
Mahesh Dattani – Dance like a Man
The Night of the Scorpion
Obituary
Mulk Raj Anand – The Untouchable
Raja Rao – The Serpent and the Rope
UNIT VIII American and Non-British
UNIT IX : History of English Language & ELT
Organs of Speech

About Course

Course Content

SYLLABUS

Syllabus

OVERVIEW

Overview of British Literature (04/03/26)

Overview of American Literature & Indian Literature (06/03/26)

Overview of Indian Literature 2 and Literary Criticism (09/03/26)

Overview of Indian Constitution (13/03/26)

GENERAL PAPER

Introduction – Madhya Pradesh (22/04/26)

General Studies – Madhya Pradesh (29/04/26)

British Literature through Ages (Selfpaced Videos by Dr Kalyani Vallath)

1 Orientation – History of English Literature — PDF BL1

2 Renaissance (Beginnings and University Wits) — PDF BL2

3 Renaissance (Beginnings and University Wits Contd.)

4 Elizabethan (Shakespeare Part 1) — PDF BL3

5 Elizabethan (Shakespeare Part 2)

6 Jacobean-Civil War (Jonson, Metaphysicals, Milton) — PDF BL4

7 Restoration-Neoclassicism Part 1 — PDF BL5

8 Restoration-Neoclassicism Part 2

9 Restoration-Neoclassicism Part 3

10 Neoclassicism (18th C Novel, Transitional Poets Part 1) — PDF BL6

11 Neoclassicism (18th C Novel, Transitional Poets Part 2)

12 Romanticism (Gothic Romance, Writers of Romanticism) PDF — BL7 & 8

13 Victorian Poetry — PDF BL9

14 Victorian Prose — PDF BL10

15 Victorian Novel — PDF BL11

16 Victorian (End of the 19th C Wilde, Shaw Arnold, Yeats, Hopkins — PDF BL12

17 Modern Age (Early 20th Century Conrad Kipling Galswothy Shaw) — PDF BL13

18 Modernist Literature in Britain — PDF BL14

19 Modernist Literature in Britain

British Literature Through Ages (LIVE CLASSES)

Restoration Era (04/05/26)

UNIT I Chaucer to Shakespeare (Syllabus-Based Selfpaced Videos)

Shakespeare Sonnet 23

Shakespeare Sonnet 24

Shakespeare Sonnet 26

Shakespeare Sonnet 27

Shakespeare Sonnet 44

Spenser – Faerie Queene

William Shakespeare- Hamlet Part 1/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 2/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 3/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 4/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 5/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 6/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 7/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 8/9

William Shakespeare – Hamlet Part 9/9

William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice

Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus Part 1/2

Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus Part 2/2

William Shakespeare : Tempest Part 1

William Shakespeare – Tempest Part 2

Willam Shakespeare – Tempest Analysis

UNIT I Chaucer to Shakespeare (LIVE CLASSES)

Francis Bacon – Essays (11/03/26)

Francis Bacon – Essay & Geoffrey Chaucer and his Works (16/03/26)

Beginning of the English Drama, Mystery, Miracle & Mortality Plays (18/03/26)

Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus (23/03/26)

Edmund Spencer – The Faerie Queene (27/03/26)

Christopher Marlowe – Dr. Faustus (30/03/26)

William Langland – Piers Plowman (01/04/26)

William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice (08/04/26)

Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbiry Tales & Ben Jonson – Every Man in His humour (15/04/26)

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 23 (18/04/26)

Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur (08/05/26)

UNIT II Jacobean to Restoration Periods (Syllabus-Based Selfpaced Videos)

Donne – Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Marvell – To His Coy Mistress

Paradise Lost Book I

Anatomy of Melancholy – Burton

UNIT II Jacobean to Restoration Periods (LIVE CLASSES)

Robert Burton – Anatomy of Melancholy (01/04/26)

John Milton – Paradise Lost Book 1 (06/04/26)

John Donne -The Extasie, A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning, The Good Morrow, The Anniversaries (10/04/26)

Andrew Marvell – To His Coy Mistress (13/04/26)

Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock (17/04/26)