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PROVISIONAL LIST OF RECOMMENDED SET BOOKS FOR NABTEB GENERAL CERTIFICATE LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH
PAPER I - There will be fifty objective questions based on:(a) General literary principles
(b) Contextual questions on Africa and Non-Africa drama set books.
(c) Unseen Prose and Poetry Passages.
(d) Literary Appreciation and Techniques
PAPER 2: DRAMA AND POETRY
SECTION A: AFRICAN DRAMA
One of the following texts should be studied:
1. Wole Soyinka: The Trials of Brother Jero
2. Athol Fugard: Sizwe Bambi is Dead
SECTION B: NON-AFRICAN DRAMA:
1. Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
2. George B. Shaw: The Taming of the Shrew.
SECTION C: AFRICAN POETRY
(i) Traditional: Salute to the Elephant
(ii) Oswald Mitshali: “Night fall in Soweto”
(i) Henry Barlow: “Building the Nation.”
(ii) David Rubadiri: “ An African Thunderstorm”
(iii) Niyi Osundare: “Ours to Plough not to Plunder”
(iv) Traditional: “My Song Bursts”
SECTION D: NON-AFRICAN POETRY
(i) Robert Burns: “Red Red Rose”
(ii) John Donne: “ Death be not Proud”
(i) T.S. Eliot: “Journey of the Magi”
(ii) William Blake: “A poison Tree”
(iii) Alfred Tennyson: “Ulysses”.
(iv) John Kents: “Ode to Nightingale”
PAPER 3 - PROSE
SECTION A: AFRICAN PROSE
One of the following texts should be studied
(1) Buchi Emecheta: Slave Wife
(2) Ngugiwa thiong’o : Weep Not Child
SECTION B: NON-AFRICAN PROSE
(1) Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
(2) Sir Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines
RECOMMENDED REFERENCE BOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
a. A Section of African Poetry, introduced and annotated by K.E. Sehanu and T. Vincent (Longman)).b. The Penguin Book of English Verse, edited by John Hayward (Pengiun).
c. Any poetry Anthology containing the recommended poems.
d. Eustace Palmer: An Introduction to the African Novel (HEB).
e. E.N. Obiechina – Culture, Tradition and society in the West African Novel (Cambridge).
f. Boris Ford – The Pelican Guide to English Literature: (7 volumes).
g. Niyi Osundare: The Eye of the Earth (Poems) Heinemann Frontline Series Heinemann Educational Books Nigeria Limited. Ibadan 1986.
h. Ben Omonode: Introduction to Literature; University of Benin Press, Benin City.
PROVISIONAL LIST OF RECOMMENDED SET BOOKS FOR NABTEB ADVANCED LEVEL (A LEVEL) LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH.
DRAMA PAPER I: DRAMA.ENGLISH DRAMA
SECTION A
Shakespeare: 12thNight (Compulsory)
SECTION B
Ben Jonson: Volpone
Richard Sheridan: The School for Scandal
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
T.S Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
SECTION C
American, Caribbean and European Drama
Bertolt Brecht: Mother Theresa
Lerol Jones: Dutchman
Nicolai Gogol: The Government Inspector
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
SECTION D
African Drama
Wole Soyinka: Death and the King's Horseman
Ola Rotimi: Our Husband has Gone Mad Again
Athol Fugard: Sizwe Banzi is dead
Lewis Nkosi: Rhythm of violence
PAPER II: PROSE
SECTION A:
English Novel
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
George Orwel: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Charles Dickens: Great Expectation
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
SECTION B:
American, Caribbean and European Novel
Albert Camus: The Plague
George Laming: In the Castle of my skin
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
SECTION C:
African Novel
Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People
Ayi Kwei Armah: The Beautiful ones are Not Yet Born
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Devil on the Cross
SECTION D
Unseen passage
PAPER III: POETRY
SECTION A:
Unseen Poem
SECTION B:
FROM CHAUCER TO THE AUGUSTAN PERIOD
Geoffrey Chaucer: The general prologue and the Clerks Tale
Helen Gardner(ed): The Metaphysical Poets
Alexander Pope: Selections
SECTION C:
FROM ROMANTICS TO THE MODERN PERIOD
David wright (ed) Selections from the penguin book of English Romantic verse
W.S. Mackie (ed) Selections from thirty poems by Robert Browning
Modern Poetry Selections
SECTION D:
AFRICAN POETRY
OKOT P'Bitek: The Song of Lawino and the song of Ocol
Wole Soyinka (ed) Poems of Black Africa
Denis Brutus: Simple Lust
Secondary Texts
- Moore Gerald (ed) African Literature and the Universities (Ibadan University Press) 1965
- Moore Gerald (ed) and Beier Ulli: Modern Poetry form Africa, Penguin Books, 1963
- M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc
PROVISIONAL LIST OF RECOMMENDED SET BOOKS FOR LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH [2021 - 2025]
AFRICAN PROSE
1. Second Class Citizen - Buchi Emecheta
2. Unexpected Joy at Dawn - Alex Agyei-Agyiri(2018 Edition)
1. Second Class Citizen - Buchi Emecheta
2. Unexpected Joy at Dawn - Alex Agyei-Agyiri(2018 Edition)
NON AFRICAN PROSE
1. Wutherng Heights - Emily Bronte
2. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
1. Wutherng Heights - Emily Bronte
2. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
AFRICAN DRAMA
1. Let Me Die Alone - John K.Kargbo
2. The Lion and the Jewel - Wole Soyinka
1. Let Me Die Alone - John K.Kargbo
2. The Lion and the Jewel - Wole Soyinka
NON AFRICAN DRAMA
1. Look Back in Anger - John Osborne
2. Fences - August Wilson
1. Look Back in Anger - John Osborne
2. Fences - August Wilson
AFRICAN POETRY
1. "Black Woman" - Leopard Sedar Senghor
2. "The Leader and the Led" - Niyi Osundare
3. “The Grieved Lands" - Agostinho Neto
4."The Song of the Woman of my Land" - Oumar Farouk Sesay
5. "Raider of the Treasure Trove" - Lade Wosomu
6. "A Government Driver on His Retirement - Onu Chibuike
1. "Black Woman" - Leopard Sedar Senghor
2. "The Leader and the Led" - Niyi Osundare
3. “The Grieved Lands" - Agostinho Neto
4."The Song of the Woman of my Land" - Oumar Farouk Sesay
5. "Raider of the Treasure Trove" - Lade Wosomu
6. "A Government Driver on His Retirement - Onu Chibuike
NON AFRICAN POETRY
1. “The Good-Morrow" - John Donne
2. "Caged Bird - Maya Angelou
3. "The Journey of the Magi" - T.S.Elliot
4. "Do Not Go Gentle into The Good Night - Dylan Thomas
5. "Binsey Poplars(Felled 1879)" - G.M.Hopkins
6. "Bat" - David H.Lawrence
1. “The Good-Morrow" - John Donne
2. "Caged Bird - Maya Angelou
3. "The Journey of the Magi" - T.S.Elliot
4. "Do Not Go Gentle into The Good Night - Dylan Thomas
5. "Binsey Poplars(Felled 1879)" - G.M.Hopkins
6. "Bat" - David H.Lawrence
NOTE
Drama text for objective/contextual questions
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William ShakespeareDrama text for objective/contextual questions
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