M.A. English Part-I & II




Paper I (Classical Poetry) -----100
Paper II (Drama) -------------100
Paper III (Novel) -------------100
Paper IV (Prose) -------------100
Paper V (American Literature)-100
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Total 500



(SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READING)


Paper I: (Classical Poetry)

1. Chaucer The Prologue
2. Milton Paradise Lost Books I & IX
3. Donne Love/Divine Poems
4. Pope The Rape of the Lock.
5. Wyatt

The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor,
Whose List to Hunt,
Madam Withouen Many Words,
They Flee from Me.
Is it Possible Forget Not Yet,
What should I say Stand who so list.

6. Surrey

My Friend the Things That Do Attain Love,
That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought,
So Cruel Prison,
Wyatt Resteth Here.



Paper II: (Drama)

1. Sophocles Oedipus Rex
2. Marlowe Dr. Faustus
3. Shakespeare

Othello
The Winter’s Tale

4. Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest


Paper III: (Novel)

1. Trollope Barchester Towers
2. Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
3. G. Eliot Adam Bede
4. Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
5. Hardy The Return of the Native


Paper IV: (Prose)

1. Bacon Essays:

Of Truth
Of Death
Of Revenge
Of Adversities
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
Of Parents and Children
Of Great Place
Of Nobilitie
Of Superstition
Of Friendship
Of Ambition
Of Studies

2. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
3. Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays
4. Edward Said Only the introduction to the book entitled
“Culture and Imperialism”
5. Seamus Heaney Only the essay “The Redress of Poetry”
from the book entitled The Redress of Poetry


Paper V: (American Literature)
Poetry

1. Adrienne Rich

Diving into the Wreck
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Final Notation
Gabriel

2. Sylvia Plath

Ariel
Morning Song
Poppies in October
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Your

3. Richard Wilbur

Still Citizen Sparrow
After the last Bulletin
Marginalia

4. John Ashbury

Melodic Train
Painter
Drama

1. O’Neil Mourning becomes Electra (only the
First of the Trilogy which is titled ‘The Home Coming’ is included in the M.A. Syllabus)
2. Miller The Crucible

Novel
1. Ernest Hemingway For whom the Bell Tolls
2. Toni Morrison Jazz

M. A. (English) Part II

The first four papers are compulsory, the other four are optional. The candidates are required to opt for any one of the four optional papers.


Paper I Poetry II ----------100
Paper II Drama II ---------100
Paper III Novel II ---------100
Paper IV Literary Criticism -100

Optional Papers

Paper V Short Stories or ------------------------100
Paper VI Literature in English Around the World ---100
Paper VII Linguistics or --------------------------100
Paper VIII Essay or ------------------------------100
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-Total 500

(SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READING)


Paper I: (Poetry II)(Section A)

1. Blake A Selection from Songs of
Innocence & Experience

i) Auguries of Innocence
ii) The Sick Rose
iii) London
iv) A Poison Tree
v) A Divine Image
vi) From Milton: And Did Those Feet
vii) Holy Thursday (I)
viii) The Tyger
ix) Ah, Sun Flower
x) Holy Thursday (II)

2. Coleridge

The Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Dejection: An Ode


3. Keats

Hyperion Book I
Ode to Autumn
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Section B

1. Philip Larkin

Mr. Bleaney
Church Going
Ambulances
1914

2. Seamus Heaney

Personal Helicon
Tolland Man
A Constable Calls
Toome Road
Casting and Gathering

3. Ted Hughes

Thought Fox
Chances
That Morning
Full Moon and Freida

Paper II: (Drama II)

1. Ibsen Hedda Gabler
2. Chekov The Cherry Orchard
3. Brecht Galileo Galili
4. Beckett Waiting for Godot
5. Edward Bond The Sea


Paper III: (Novel II)

1. Conrad Heart of Darkness
2. Joyce Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
3. Woolf To the Lighthouse
4. Achebe Things Fall Apart
5. Ahmad Ali Twilight in Delhi


Paper IV: (Literary Criticism)
Practical Criticism

1. Aristotle Poetics
2. Raymond William’s Modern Tragedy
3. Catherine Belsey Critical Practice
*4. T.S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent
*5. Philip Sidney Apology for Poetry


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* Added vide Notification No.D/692/Acad., dated 15-3-2005



Optional Papers

Paper V (Short Stories)

1. Sara Suleri The Property of Women
2. Naguib Mahfuz The Mummy
3. E.Allen Poe The Man of the Crowd
4. Doris Lessing African Short Story
5. Flannery O’Connor Everything that Rises Must
Converge
6. J.Joyce The Dead
7. Nadine Gordimer Ultimate Safari
Once upon a time
8. Kafka The Judgement
9. Achebe Civil Peace
10. Okri What the Tapster Saw
11. Hanif Qureshi My Son the Fanatic
12. D.H.Lawrence The Man who Loved Islands
13. W.Trevor The Day
14. AliceWalker Strong Horse Tea
15. V.S. Pritchett The Voice
16. Brian Friel The Diviner
17. H.E. Bates The Woman who Loved
Imagination
18. Ali Mazuri The Fort
19. Amy Tan The Voice from the Wall
20. A.Chekov The Man who lived in a Shell
21. Braithwaite Dream Hatii
22. V.S. Naipaul The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book
23. E. Hemingway A Clean Well Lighted Place


PAPER VI: (Literature in English Around the World)

Drama

1. Lorca House of Bernada Alba
2. Brian Friel Translations

Novel

1. Nugugi The River Between
2. Solzhynetsin A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch

Poetry

1. Taufiq Rafat

Thinking of Mohenjodaro
The Stone Chat
The Last Visit

2. Daud Kamal

Reproduction
The Street of Nightingale
A Remote Beginning

3. Maki Qureshi

Air Raid
Kite
Christmas
Letter to my Sister

4. A. Hashmi

Encounter with the Sirens
Autumnal
But Where is the Sky?

5. Zulfiqar Ghose

Across India
February 1952
The Mystique of Root
A Memory of Asia

6. Shirley Lim

Monsoon History
Modern Secrets

7. Vikram Seth

Humble Administrators
Garden

8. Anna Akhmatova

Prologue Epilogue

9. Derek Walcott

Far Cry From Africa

10. Ben Okri

African Elegy

11. Achebe

Refugee Mother & Child
Mango Seed

12. Nasim Ezekiel

Night of the Scorpion
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa

13. Moniza Alvi

The Country at my Shoulder


Paper VII (Linguistics)
Introduction, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Stylistics.


Paper VIII: (Essay)
Essay
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will anyone tell from M.A english syllabus of punjab university part 1 what are the important questions form each novel and which among them is unimportant novel .And plz plz plz tell me how can i make an answer beautifull.should I write introduction and conclusion in each question or not .plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz guide me

Shabaaz

You appeared last year I guess so you can guide her about the important and unimportant questions. I appeared with old course.

Be relevant and add quotations and reference where required.

Introduction of what?

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hi shaheen when the exams of part 1 MA english from pu held in which month do you know?

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Please also post Syllabus for M.A English(of Affiliated colleges with Qauid-e-Azam Uni)

Syllabus: M.A. English Literature (Qauid-e-Azam University)
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M.A. English Part-I




Paper I (Classical Poetry) -----100
Paper II (Drama) -------------100
Paper III (Novel) -------------100
Paper IV (History of English Literature and Prose) -------------(60 History & 40 Prose= 100)
Paper V (American Literature)-100
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Total 500



(SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READING)


Paper I: (Classical Poetry)

1. Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury tales
2. Milton: Paradise Lost (Books I & IX)
3. Donne: Love/Divine Poems
4. Pope: The Rape of the Lock.
5. Surrey & Wyatt: Selection




Paper II: (Drama)

1. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
2. Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
3. Shakespeare: Hamlet
// As you like it
4. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest


Paper III: (Novel)

1. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
2. Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice
3. G. Eliot: The mill on the Floss
4. Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
5. Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native


Paper IV: (History of English Literature & Prose)

1:History of English Literature from Anglo-Saxon period to 20th century
2. Bacon’s Essays:

1: Of Truth
2: Of Death
3: Of Revenge
4: Of Adversity
5: Of Simulation and Dissimulation
6: Of Parents and Children
7: Of Great Place
8: Of Marriage and Single life
9: Of Superstition
10:Of Friendship
11: Of Ambition
12: Of Studies

3. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
4. Bertrand Russell: The conquest of Happiness


Paper V: (American Literature)
Poetry

1. Adrienne Rich

Diving into the Wreck
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

2. Sylvia Plath

Ariel
Morning Song
Poppies in October
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
You’re

3: John Ashbury

Melodic Train
Painter
4: Robert Frost:

Birches
Stopping by woods on a snowy Evening
The road not taken
Bereft
Mending walls
An old man’s winter night
Home burial
Desert places

5: Emily Dickinson:

The Railway Train
I heard a fly buzz -when I died
Because I could not stop for death
Success is counted sweetness
In vain

Drama:

1. O’Neil: Mourning becomes Electra
2. Miller: The Crucible

Novel:

1. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to arms
2. Toni Morrison: Jazz

When the Novel "Twilight in Delhi" was included in Punjab University's course? Can anybody tell??

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Good day!!
well....i just bought my books for m.a english (pu) and started with Drama. I am appearing as a private candidate and need assistance and guidance in order to prepare myself well....keeping in mind that I'm already a busy person and looking after infants.
Kindly stay in touch.

Any help would be truly appreciated
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