CSS English Literature syllabus 2025

CSS English Literature syllabus 2025

CSS English Literature 2025 Group 5

CSS English Literature Syllabus 2025

This article covers the CSS English Literature complete Syllabus 2024.

The syllabus of CSS English Literature consists of 6 parts of a collective 100 marks.

The examination for CSS English Literature is the Group 5 exam for CSS candidates.

CSS English Literature Syllabus 2025

Paper (100-Marks)

  • Essays: (10 Marks) 

    • Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness) 
    • George Orwell (Politics and the English Language; The Prevention of Literature) 
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Transcendentalist; Self-Reliance) 

  • Short Stories: (10 Marks) 

    • Somerset Maugham (The Lotus-Eater) 
    • G.K.Chesterton (A Somewhat Improbable Story) 
    • O’Henry (The Gift of the Magi) 

  • Poetry: (20 marks) 

    • William Wordsworth (Resolution and Independence; Lines Composed Few Miles Above, Tintern Abbey) 
    • John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Autumn) 
    • Lord Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses; The Lady of Shalott) 
    • Yeats (A Dialogue of Self and Soul; The Second Coming) 
    • Eliot (The Wasteland; Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) 
    • Philip Larkin (Maturity; Continuing to Live; The Trees) 
    • Wallace Stevens (A Postcard from the Volcano; Continual Conversation with a Silent Man; Dry Loaf) OR Walt Whitman (As I Ponder’d in Silence; Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? ; This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful)

  • Drama: (20 marks) 

    • Shakespeare (Hamlet; King Lear; Twelfth Night) 
    • William Congreve (The Way of the World) 
    • Shaw (Pygmalion; Heartbreak House) 
    • Harold Pinter (The Caretaker) 
    • Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot) 
    • Eugene O’Neill (Long Day’s Journey into Night) 

  • Novels: (20 marks) 

    • Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd) 
    • D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers) 
    • George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-four) 
    • James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) 
    • Iris Murdoch (Under the Net) Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter) or William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury) 

  • Literacy Theory & Criticism: (20 Marks) 

    • Structuralism 
    • Marxism 
    • Deconstructionism 
    • Psychoanalytic criticism 
    • Feminist criticism 
    • Postcolonial Criticism

  • This is the complete syllabus for preparation of CSS English Literature.

    The Candidates should prepare thoroughly to succeed in the examination.

    Therefore, here are a few suggested books you can buy for better learning about CSS English Literature from your favorite Multan Kitab Ghar online bookstore.

    Suggested Reading Books for CSS English Literature Syllabus 2025

  • The basics Literary Theory. (Second edition). Routledge by Bertens H. (2008)
  • Literary Theory: An Introduction. (Anniversary Edition) by Eagleton, E. (2008).
  • A New Handbook of Literary Terms by Mikics, W. (2007)
  • A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry by Roberts, N. (2003)
  • A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. (Fifth edition) by Selden, R., Widdowson, P., & Brooker, P. (2005)
  • Twentieth Century British Drama by Smart, J. (2001)
  • Modern Critical Views & Interpretations, ed: 80’s and 90’s editions by Harold Bloom (these include all range of authors and their works given above)
  • A Companion to 20th Century Drama Oxford: Blackwell by Krasner David. 2005
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