Focuses on English literature, literary theory, critical analysis, and language studies, including prose, poetry, and drama, for candidates interested in literary research and academia.

GATE Humanities and Social Sciences - English

Official 2025 syllabus extracted from https://gate2025.iitr.ac.in/doc/2025/GATE%20_XH-C2_2025_Syllabus.pdf

English Literature and Studies

Poetry

The novel and other forms of fiction including the short story

Drama

Creative non-fiction

Non-fiction prose

Emphasis on the long 19th and 20th centuries

Multi-genre Literatures in English

Comparative context: anglophone and English translation literatures

Literatures from India and the Indian subcontinent

Anglophone and Translated Literatures from India

Literary criticism and theory

Critical and cultural intellectual traditions and approaches in the discipline of English

Literary Criticism and Theory

History of English literature

History of English literary studies

History of English Literature and Literary Studies

Research approaches and methodologies

Interpretive techniques responsive to literary forms, devices, concepts and genres

Research Approaches and Methodologies

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