Books Recommended For NTA UGC NET English
Which book you should read to qualify the NET (English literature)?
If you desire to pass NTA NET /SET exam first and the foremost you should know what to study and what to skip.
Whether its Shakespeare or Wordsworth ones should know which plays of Shakespeare and which poems of Wordsworth you should read in detail and which poem or play summary or gist is enough.
So unless you go through in detail each and every (very important works) of an author or poet and social, cultural and political history of each age (includes literary forms in relation to the author) it’s not easy to pass the exam.
Read all the works of canonised authors from the age of Chaucer to Amitav Ghosh. Memorise all the dates of the works and also their authors as chronological questions will come, and also try to remember the characters and storyline of important works
The most important book, which helps to score marks in Paper II is none other than A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams. This is not a reference book but a study book for NET aspirants. Unless and until you learn it by heart you are not going to clear NET.
Finally, before concluding this I would like you to study three more books. They are
1. An Introduction to English Criticism by B. Prasad
2. Beginning Theory by Peter Barry
3. A Background to the study of English Literature by B.Prasad.
You can check out below books as they are extremely good and in-depth, and highly recommended.
Book No # 1
NTA UGC (NET/JRF/SET) ENGLISH Literature Paper 2 2019
- Arihant Experts (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 869 Pages - 06/12/2019 (Publication Date) - Arihant Publications (Publisher)
Book No# 2
Ugc Net English Literature Paperback
- Arihant Experts (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 828 Pages - 01/19/2021 (Publication Date) - Arihant Publications (Publisher)
Book No# 3
Trueman’s UGC NET English Literature Paperback
- B.P. Panigrahi (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 02/11/2019 (Publication Date) - Danika Publishing Company (Publisher)
Book No# 4
Book No# 4
NTA-UGC-NET: English (Paper II) Exam Guide Paperback
Few More Books Recommended by Experts for detail study for UGC NET English Paper :
- An Objective History of English Literature Through Multiple-Choice Questions
- Glossary Of Literary Terms, 11Th Edition
- An Outline History of English Literature
- UGC NET/SET (JRF & LS) English Literature Paper II and III
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