Dear Aspirants,

Book- 1: British Literature: Chaucer to Neo-Classical Literature is systematically compiled in a student-friendly manner and updated so as to incorporate keeping in mind present trends in UGC-NET/SET/JRF Exams. It contains Social History of England since 1066AD upto the works of Samuel Johnson including 160 pages detailed notes on William Shakespeare. The detailed analysis of each text/poet including Socio- Political life of the period, Major Revolutions and Events, Biographical Information, Introduction, some important texts, summaries, themes, characters, comments, motifs, important lines, previous years questions, answer keys, Bibliography etc. have been provided so that student could write exam, even in descriptive pattern. This book also contains previous year’s UGC-NET/SET questions with answer keys.

Regards
James Raaj
Director and Trainer
Raaj Academy

Dear Aspirants,

This book is second on the series on British Literature for UGC-NET/SET/JRF Exams contains British Literature from: Precursors of Romanticism to Early Victorian Literature. It contains works of some of neoclassical writers such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson, precursors of Romantics such as Thomas Grey and William Blake upto Early Victorian novelist like Charles Dickens and George Eliot. The detailed analysis of each text/author including introduction, Socio- Political life of the period, Major Revolutions and Events, Biographical Information, some important texts, summaries, themes, characters, comments, motifs, important lines, previous years questions answer keys, bibliography etc. have been provided so that student could write exam even in descriptive pattern. This book also contains previous years question with answer keys.

Regards
James Raaj
Director and Trainer
Raaj Academy

Dear Aspirants,

This book is third on the series on British Literature for UGC-NET/SET/JRF Exams contains British Literature from Late Victorian to 20th Century Literature. It contains some of Victorian novelists, writers and poets such as Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, the works of Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold etc., modernist like James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, W.B.Yeats, W.H.Auden etc, Post World War II Playwrights like Harold Pinter, John Osborne and Post modernist John Fowles. The detailed analysis of each text/author including Socio- Political life of the period, Major Revolutions and Events, introduction ,Biographical Information, plot outline, some important texts, summaries, themes, characters, comments, motifs, important lines, previous years question, answer keys, bibliography etc. have been provided so that student could write exam even in descriptive pattern. This book also contains previous year’s questions with answer keys.

Regards
James Raaj
Director and Trainer
Raaj Academy

Dear Aspirants,

This book 4 for UGC-NET/SET/JRF Examination contains the core paper Literary Criticism and Theory and three optional papers such as European Classics in Translation, Literary Forms and Rhetoric & Prosody. It covers all the major literary criticism and theories from Aristotle’s time to the present day theories like Eco-feminism and Queer Theory. Each chapter is self-explanatory and very easy to understand.

It also contains 36 major European classics translated in English such as Homer’s The Iliad, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard etc. to mention a few. The works of Major writers like Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Thomas Mann etc. have also been included.

The third section of the book contains important literary and rhetorical terms and the prosaic features of language and literature.

The detailed analysis of each criticism and works including core criticism and theories, major critics, biographical details, important texts, summaries, ideas, quotations terms with explanations, famous first lines, Bibliography etc. have been provided so that student could write the exam even in descriptive pattern. This book also contains previous year’s questions with answer keys.

Regards
James Raaj
Director and Trainer

Dear Aspirants,

This book 5 American, Post Colonial, New Literature and English Language Teaching (ELT) for UGC-NET/SET/JRF Examination contains four optional papers.

Section 1 of the book covers all American writers since American Revolution to the present day. The works of novelist and historian such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson upto Afro-American Amiri Baraka and Toni Morrison have also been included.

The section 2 and 3 of the book contain the landmark works of Postcolonial writers and New Literature. As diverse as Michael Ondaatje and Buchi Emecheta to important writers such as V.S. Naipaul, J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey , Ben Okri, Frantz Fanon, Ian McEwan etc have also been included .

The section 4 of the book contains all important theories and topics on English Language Teaching (ELT).

The detailed analysis of each text/poet including Socio- Political life of the period, Major Revolutions and Events, Biographical Information, Introduction, summary, themes, characters, comments, motifs, important lines, previous years questions, List of prize and award winners, Famous first lines, bibliography for further reading etc. have been provided so that student could write exam, even in descriptive pattern. This book also contains previous year’s questions with answer keys.

Dear Aspirants,

This book 6 on Paper-1:General Paper on Teaching and Research Aptitude covers almost all the major topics viz. Teaching Aptitude, Research Aptitude, Reading Comprehension, Communication, Information and Communicating Technology (ICT), People and Environment, Higher Education System, Governance Polity and Administration, Reasoning, Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation.

This book also contains practice questions and previous year’s UGC-NET/SET Exams questions on each topic with answer keys. As this is a compulsory core paper 6 questions out of total 60 can be expected from each unit of this paper. To qualify and to be selected for final top 15% of qualified candidates in this paper, a candidates has to score at least 18/20 questions correctly.