Ugc Net English Syllabus -World Literature (Important writers)

The large and varied field of world literature includes writings from numerous nations, locations, and civilizations. A thorough knowledge of world literature is essential for UGC NET candidates because it plays a vital role in the curriculum. A quick review of Ugc Net English Syllabus -World Literature and important authors will be given in this article.

With literary greats like Rabindranath Tagore and R.K. Narayan, Indian literature displays a diverse tapestry of languages and cultures. Themes of identity, belonging, and postcolonialism are explored by British Diaspora writers like Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith.

Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are examples of African writers who delve into the history, hardships, and varied experiences of the continent. With authors like Margaret Atwood and Peter Carey, Canadian and Australian literature provides insights into the distinctive landscapes and rich cultural traditions of these countries.

Caribbean/Colombian Stories by authors like Derek Walcott and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are infused with the history, migration, and mythology of the area. Western literary legacy is rooted in classical Greek and Roman literature, which includes works by Homer, Sophocles, and Virgil.

Italian literature includes Italo Calvino’s imaginative stories and Dante’s Divine Comedy. While German literature highlights the genius of Goethe and Kafka, Russian literature is home to titans like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. French literature explores existentialism and social critique with greats like Victor Hugo and Albert Camus.

There are many different literary traditions in other parts of Europe, such as Scandinavian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Engaging with these various literary traditions aids UGC NET students in expanding their worldview, sharpening their critical thinking skills, and appreciating the universal themes that unite people from all cultures and eras.

Ugc Net English Syllabus

American Literature

1. Fredric Douglass 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe 3. Herman Melville 4. William Cullen Bryant 5. Walt Whitman 6. Washington Irving 7. Henry David Thoreau 8. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. Edgar Allen Poe 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne 11. Louisa May Alcott 12. James Cooper 13. Edith Wharton 14. Kate Chopin 15. Henry James 16. Mark twain 17. Jack London 18. Charlotte Gilman Perkins 19. Theodore Dreiser 20. Stephan crane 21. Susan Glaspell 22. Robert Frost 23. Ezra Pound 24. William carols Williams  25. E.E.Cummings 26. John Updike 27. Harper lee 28. Truman Capote 29. J.D. Salinger

30. John O Hara 31. John Steinbeck 32. Joseph Heller 33. William S Burroughs 34. Jack Kerousac 35. Edward Albee 36. Saul Bellow 37. Allen Ginsberg 38 Anne Sexton 39. Sylvia Plath 40. Robert Lowell 41. Elizabeth Bishop 42. Wallace Stevens African-American writers 1. Tony Morrison 2. Zora Neale Hurston 3. Alisce walker 4. Maya Angelou 5. Langston Huges 6. Amiri Baraka 7. James Baldwin 8. Ralph Ellison 9. Richard Wright

Ugc Net English Syllabus-Indian Literature-Important Writers/poets/critics/novelists

Important Writers/poets/critics/novelists

1. Bankin Chandra Chatterjee  2. Mulkraj Anand  3. R.K.Narayan  4. Raja Rao  5. Kamala Markandaya  6. Manohar Malgaonkar  7. Khushwant Singh  8. Bharti Mukharjee  9. Nirad C. Chaudhari 10. Ruskin Bond 11. Shashi Deshpande 12. G.V.Desani 13. U.R. Anathamurthy 14. Anita Desai 15. Kiran Desai 16. Arun Joshi 17. Arundhati Roy 18. Nayantara Sahgal 19. Jumpa lahiri 20. Amitav Ghosh 21. Arvind Adiga 22. Anita Nair 23. Gayatri chakravorty Spivak 24. Githa Hariharan 25. Gita Mehta 26. Mahesh Dattani 27. Manju Kapur 28. Ramchandra Guha 29. Rama Mehta 30. A.K.Ramanujan 31. Ruth Prawar Jhabvala 32. Salman Rushdie 33. Badal Sarcar

34. Shashi Tharoor 35. Shobha De 36. Vijay Tendulkar 37. Vikram Seth 38. Upmanyu Chatterjee 39. Madhusudan Dutt 40. Toru Dutt 41. Sri Aurobindo 42. Sarojini Naidu 43. Rabindranath Tagore 44. Kamala Das 45. Nissim Ezekiel 46. Agha Shahid Ali 47. Arun Kolatkar 48. Gieve Patel 49.. Keki Daruwalla 50 Meena Alexander 51. Jayant Mahapatra 52. Mahashweta Devi 53. P.Lal 54. R. Parthasarathy 55. Girish Karnad Dalit Literature 1.Mahatma Jyotiba Phule 2.Babasaheb Ambedkar 3. Om Prakash Valmiki 4.Sharadkumar Limbale    5.Meena Kandasamy 6. Daya Pawar 7. Baby Kamble 8. Kancha Ilaiah 9. Durga Bai Vyam

Ugc Net English Syllabus- World Literature

Writers of British Diaspora	African Writers	Canadian Writers
1. Jean Rhys  2. Kazua Ishiguru  3. Hanif Kureshi  4. Timothy Mo  5. Caryl Philips  6. Salman Rushdie  7. V.s.Naipaul  8. Sam Selvon	1. Chimananda Ngozi Adiche  2. Chinua Achibe  3. Nadine Gordimer  4. J.M.Coetzee  5. Wole Soyinka  6. Ama Ata Aidoo  7. Buchi Emecheta  8. Bessiee Head	1. Michael Ondaatje  2. Margaret Atwood  3. Yann Martel  4. Alice Munro  5. Lawrence Hill  6. Robinton Mistry  7. Margaret Lawrence  8. Gabrielle Roy  9. Shyam Selvadurai  10. Maria Campbell  11. Sinclair Ross  12. Thomas King

Australian Writers	Carribbean / Colombian Writers
1. A.D.Hope  2. David Malouf  3. Patrick White  4. Peter Carey  5. Judith Wright	1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez  2. Derek Walcott  3. Jamaica Kincaid  4. Edward Brathwaite

Important writers-European Literature

Classical Greek Literature	Classical Roman Literature	Italian Literature	Russian Literature
1. Homer  2. Aeschylus  3. Sophocles  4. Euripides  5. Aristophanes  6. Aesop  7. Pindar	1. Cicero  2. Virgil  3. Ovid  4. Seneca	1. Dante Alighieri  2. Petrarch  3. Giovanni Boccaccio  4. Thomas Aquinas  5. Niccolo Machivelli  6. Luigi Pirandello  7. Italo Calvino  8. Umberto Eco	1. Fyodor Dostoevsky Leo Tolstoy  2. Alexander Pushkin  3. Anton Chekhov  4. Boris Pasternak  5. Ivan Turgenev  6. Michail Bulgakov  7. Vladimir Nabakov  8. Ivan Bunin  9. Maxim Gorky

German Literature	French Literature	Other European literature
1. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe       2. Bertolt Brecht  3. Thomas Mann  4. Franz Kafka  5. Herman Hesse  6. Gunter Grass	1. Montaigne  2. Moliere  3. Voltaire  4. Eugene Lonesco  5. Gustave Flaubert  6. Honare Be Balzac  7. Emile Zola  8. Albert Camus  9. Charles Baudelaire 10. Guy De Maupassant 11. Jean Paul Satre 12. Jean Genet 13. Alexander Dumas 14. Victor Hugo	1. Jean Jack Rousseau  2. Miguel De Cervantes 3. August Strindberg  4. Henrik Ibsen