OAS English optional

English Literature is one of the optional subjects offered in the OAS Mains examination, with two papers of 250 marks each.

The syllabus below is reproduced from the Odisha Public Service Commission's own notification. Both papers carry 250 marks and run for three hours.

ENGLISH Objective: The syllabus consists of two papers generally covering the period 1600 — 2000 in English Literature.It is designed to test the ability of the candidate at first-hand and critical reading of the major texts/authors belonging to the period.

Paper —I

Total Number of questions in the paper will be eight. All questions will carry equal marks. The questions will be divided into two Groups: Group-A and Group-B. In. each Group there will be four questions. The candidate shall answer five questions in all. One question in each Group will " be compulsory. The candidate will be required to answer three more questions, choosing at least one from each Group. In this way, at least two questions will be attempted from each Group i.e. one compulsory question plus one more. One compulsory question will be the short answer type, another shall be analysis of an unseen passage/poem. The candidate shall be required to answer five questions in all selecting at least one from each Group. Group A

1. Shakespeare King Lear OR The Tempest
2. Marlowe Dr Faustus
3. John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
4. John Donne “The Good Morrow”, “Canonization”, “Extasie”, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “The Sunne Rising”, “Death, Be Not Proud”,
5. John Milton Paradise Lost Bks ], Il.
6. Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock
7. William Wordsworth * “Daffodils”, “Tintern Abbey”, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”, “Three Years She Grew”, “She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways”, “Upon Westminster Bridge”. Group B
8. Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
9. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
10. Charles Dickens Hard Times
11. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
12. George Eliot The Miil on the Floss. Paper IT Group-A
13. W.B. Yeats “Easter 1916”, “The Second Coming”, “A Prayer for My Daughter”, “Sailing to Byzantium”, “Among School Children”, “Leda and the Swan”, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
14. T.S.Eliot The Waste Land OR Four Quartets
15. Indian Poets 3 Kamala Das: “My Grand Mother’s House”, “The Looking Glass” Nissim Ezekiel: “Enterprise”, “Night of the Scorpion”. Jayanta Mahapatra: “The Whore House in a Calcutta Street”, “Lost” R.Parthasarathy: “from Trial”, “from Home Coming” AK Ramanujam: “Love Poem for a Wife I”, “A River” 4 John Osborne: Look Back in Anger 5 Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot 6 Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House 7 August Strindberg: Father Group-B 8 James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 9 EM Forster: A Passage to India 10 Gopinath Mohanty: The Ancestor (translation Arun K Mohanty. Published by Central Sahitya Akademi) 11 Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart. 12 V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas