2023/2024 JAMB Syllabus for Literature-in-English

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retain a well-modified syllabus from year to year to prepare all aspirants candidates for the upcoming JAMB and POST-JAMB examinations.

 Four things to have in mind before using the syllabus 

The syllabus in Literature in English aims to prepare students for the JAMB examination. It is designed to test the students on the objectives of the cause, which are:

*  Apply the knowledge of literature in English to the analysis of the political, social, and economic events in the society

*  Appreciate Literature genres in all future

*  Understand and strengthen their interests in Literature in English.

*  Create an awareness of the general principle of literature and function.

      

     Jamb Recommended Textbooks 

A LIST OF SELECTED AFRICAN AND NON-AFRICAN PLAYS, NOVELS, AND POEMS

Drama:

African:

i. Frank Ogodo Ogbeche:      Harvest of Corruption

Non-African:
i. William Shakespeare:      Othello

Prose:
African:
i. Amma Darko:      Faceless

Non-African:
i. Richard Wright:      Native Son

Poetry:
African:
i. Birago Diop:      Vanity
ii. Gbemisola Adeoti:      Ambush
iii. Gabriel Okara:      Piano and Drums
iv. Gbanabam Hallowell:      The Dining Table
v. Lenrie Peter:      The Panic of Growing Older
vi. Kofi Awoonor:      The Anvil and the Hammer

Non-African:
i. Alfred Tennyson:      Crossing the Bar
ii. George Herbert:      The Pulley
iii. William Blake:      The School Boy
iv. William Morris:      The Proud King

1. ANTHOLOGIES

Gbemisola, A. (2005)Naked Soles, Ibadan: Kraft

Hayward, J. (ed.) (1968) The Penguin Book of English Verse, London: Penguin

Johnson, R. et al (eds.) (1996) New Poetry from Africa, Ibadan: UP Plc

Kermode, F. et al (1964) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, London: OUP

Now D. (ed.) (1967) West African Verse, London: Longman

Senanu, K. E. and Vincent, T. (eds.) (1993) A Selection of African Poetry, Lagos: Longman

Soyinka, W. (ed.) (1987) Poems of Black Africa, Ibadan: Heinemann

2. CRITICAL TEXT

Abrams, M. H. (1981) A Glossary of Literary Terms, (4th Edition) New York, Holt Rinehart, and Winston

Emeaba, O. E. (1982)A Dictionary of Literature, Aba: Inteks Press

Murphy, M. J. (1972) Understanding Unseen, An Introduction to English Poetry and English Novel for Overseas Students, George Allen and

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