STPM LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Content

Paper 1: Shakespeare and Other British Writers
(i) Shakespeare, Hamlet (Arden)
(ii) Shakespeare, As You Like It (Arden)
(iii) John Keats, Selected Poems and Letters of Keats (Heinemann)
(iv) Thomas Hardy, Selected Shorter Poems of Thomas Hardy (Macmillan)
(v) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics)
(vi) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Penguin Classics)

Paper 2: New Literatures in English
(i) “Spirit of the Keris”: A Selection of Malaysian Short Stories and Poems (Maya Press Sdn. Bhd.)
(ii) Nissim Ezekiel, Collected Poems 1952-1988 (Oxford Indian Paperback)
(iii) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Books)
(iv) Buchi Emecheta, Kehinde (Heinemann)

Examination FormatConsists of two papers:
Paper 1: Shakespeare and Other British Writers (3 hours)
There are four sections:
Section A: Critical Appreciation.
Section B: Shakespeare’s Plays.
Section C: Poetry.
Section D: Novels and short stories.
Paper 2: New Literatures in English (3 hours)
There are three sections
Section A: Critical Appreciation.
Section B: Malaysia.
Section C: Indian Sub-Continent, West Indies and Africa.