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[B][I][U]Part I[/U][/I][/B]
P-1 History of English Literature and Literary Criticism
P-2 Phonetics and Phonology or Grammar, Syntax and Semantics
P-3 Poetry: 14th to 20th centuries
P-4 Drama: Sophocles to 20th Century
P-5 Prose

[B][I][U]Part II[/U][/I][/B]
P-6 Teaching of English as an International/Second Language or Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistcis
P-7 Historical and General Linguistics
P-8 Novel: 18th to 20th Centuries
P-9 Essay or Stylistics
P-10 American and Canadian Literatures

[B][I][U]P-1
Core Text[/U][/I][/B]
• A history of English Literature by Michael Alexander
• A Quintessence of Literary Criticism (NUML)
• A critical History of English Literature by David Dacihes
• The Art of Poetry by Aristotle
• Course Outline
• History of Eng. Lit.
• Old English/Anglo Saxon Literature
• Middle English Literature: Fabliau, Lyric, dream Allegory, Ballad
• Tudor & Elizabethan Literature
• Shakespeare & the development of Drama
• Augustan Literature
• Novel from Richardson to Austen
• Scottish Literature
• The Romantic Poets
• Victorian Prose and Poetry
• Twentieth Century Poetry and Novel: Post War Literature

[B][I][U]Literary Criticism[/U][/I][/B]
• Aristotle
The Art of Poetry
• Johnson, Samuel
Selection from Milton
Selection from Cowley
• Wordsworth, William Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Biographia Literaria (chs.16 & 17
• Arnold, Mathew
The Study of poetry
The function of Criticism at the Present Time
• Eliot, Thomas Stearns
Tradition and the individual Talent

Reference Books
• The Mirror and the Lamp by M.H. Abrams
• Literary Criticism A short History by Warren Brooks
• An Essay in Criticism by G. Hough
• Anatomy f Literature by R.A. Scott James

P-2
• Phonetics
o Areas of study
o Phonetic universality and diversity
o Usefulness of study
• Concepts of ‘Sounds of Language’
• Problems of English pronunciation
o Lack of correspondence between spelling and pronunciation
o Acoustic quality of speech sounds
o Proper articulation of speech sounds
o Mother tongue interference
o Supra segmental features
o Types of pronunciation
• Requirements of foreign learners
• Phonetic symbols
• Process of articulation
• Organs of speech-description and function
• Classification of sounds
• Articulation of vowels
• Cardinal vowels
• Vowel diagram
• Description of English vowels
o Pure vowels
o Diphthongs
o Triphthongs
• Articulation of consonants
• Place of articulation
• Manner of articulation
• Description of English consonants
o Plosives
o Affricates
o Nasals
o Laterals
o Fricatives
o Frictionless continuant
• Semi vowels
• Consonant clusters in English
• Phonology
o Relationship with phonetics
o Areas of study
• Phoneme
o Phonemic theory
o Phonemic test
• Allophone
o Complementary distribution
o Phonetic similarity
• Syllable
o Structure
o Syllabic division of words
o Permissible and non-permissible sound sequences
o Conventional character of syllabic distribution
• Word stress
o Levels of stress
o Variability
o Mobility
o Rules and exceptions
• Sentence stress
• Strong and weak forms
o Formation of weak forms
o Importance of using weak forms
o Weak form words
o Use of strong forms
• Assimilation
o Historical assimilation
o Contextual assimilation
o Consonant change in assimilation
• Elision
• Intonation
o English tones
o Functions
• Phonetic transcription
• Pakistani speakers of English
o Problems of pronunciation
o Strategies for solving problems
o Sociolinguistic environment
o Intelligibility as a learning goal

[B][I][U]P-3
A Quintessence of Classical Poetry-NUML
A Quintessence of Romantic Poetry -NUML[/U][/I][/B]
• Geoffrey Chaucer
o Introduction to The Prologue
o The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene: Book 1, Canto 1
• John Milton
o The Argument: Paradise Lost Book 1
o Paradise Lost, Book I
• Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
• John Donne
o Love Poems: Song; The Sunne Rising; Love’s Alchemy; A Valediction – Of Weeping
o Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay; I am a little world made cunningly; If poisonous minerals, and if that tree; Death be not proud.
• William Wordsworth
o Tintern Abbey
o The Solitary Reaper
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
o The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
o Kubla Khan
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
o Ode to the West Wind
o To a Skylark
• John Keats
o Ode on a Grecian Urn
o Ode to a Nightingale
o Ode to Melancholy
• Mathew Arnold
o Dover Beach
o Growing Old
o The Last Word
• W.B Yeats
o The Rose Tree
o Easter 1916
o The Second Coming
o Sailing to Byzantium
o Wilde Swans at Coole
Reference Books
• The poetry of Chaucer Nevill Coghill
• A commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Muriel Bowden
• Edmund Spencer B.E.C. Davis
• Milton: Man and Thinker Denis Saurat
• Milton I & II T.S. Eliot
• Alexander Pope B. Dobree
• Revaluations F.R. Leavis
• Shelley’s Major Poetry C. Baker
• The Consecrated Urn B. Blackstone
• John Keats D. Bush
• Keats & Shakespeare Middleton Murry
• New Bearings in English Poetry F.R. Leavis

[B][I][U]P-4[/U][/I][/B]
• Sophocles King Oedipus (The Theban Plays: Penguin Classics) Penguin Classics, 1974
• Marlowe, Christopher Dr. Faustus by Macmillan
• Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night by Penguin Classics
• Shakespeare, William King Lear by Longman
• Shakespeare, William Hamlet by Longman
• Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll’s House
• Shaw, George Bernard Arms and the Man
• O’Casey, Sean Juno and The Paycock
• Pinter, Harold The Caretaker
• Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman

[B][I][U]P-5
An Anthology of English Essays-NUML
An Anthology of Short Stories NUML
Russell’s Best- Silhouettes in Satire[/U][/I][/B]

• Selection from Francis Bacon
o Of Truth
o Of Marriage
o Of Students
o Of Discourse
o Of Friendship
• Selection from Essays of Elia
o Dream Children: A Reverie
o Poor Relations
o In Praise of Chimney Sweepers
o That you must Love me, and Love my Dog
• Selections from the work of Crown of Wild Olives Work
• Selections from R.W.Emerson Self Reliance
• Selection from On Liberty
o The Liberty of Thought and Discussion
[B][I][U]The Short story[/U][/I][/B]
• O’ Henry
o The gift of Magi
o The Last Leaf
• Oscar Wilde
o The devoted Friend
o The happy Prince
• Edgar Ellen Poe
o Tell Tale Heart
o The Fall of the House of Usher
• Katherine Mansfield
o The Fly
o The Doll’s House

• Mark Twain
o A dog’s Tale
o A helpless Situation
• H.G.Wells
o A moonlight Fable
o The Diamond Maker
[B][I][U]P-6

Core Text[/U][/I][/B]
• Teaching of English as a Foreign/Second Language
• The practice of English Language Teaching. Jeremy Harmer. Longman.1985
• Practice of English Teaching. Penny Ur
• Techniques & Principles in Language Teaching. D. Larsen-Freeman.OUP.1986
• Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching. McDonough H. Steven. Unwun Hyman. 1986
• Role of Teacher and Learners. T. Wright. OUP, 1987
• Erroe Analysis. Jack C. Richards. Longman. 1985
[B][I][U]Course Outline[/U][/I][/B]
• The nature and principles of foreign language teaching.
• Approaches, methods and techniques of foreign language teaching
• Communicative language teaching
• Teaching the four skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
• Integrated Skills
• Textbook adaptation and Materials development
• Using audio-visual aids
• Using songs, stories, dialogues and games in ESL/EFL class
• Teaching of vocabulary and spelling
• Teaching of grammar
• Teacher development
• Practical techniques in reflective language teaching: action research
• Principles, procedures and practice of student-centered approach
• Teacher-learner relationships and their impact on the classroom
• Lesson Planning: Preparation, Presentation, Practice, Production
• Error Analysis: What, Why, When and How?
• Mistakes and Correction
• Testing and Evaluation
• Classroom Management
[B][I][U]Psycholinguistics & Sociolinguistics
Core Text[/U][/I][/B]
• Culture, Language & Media S. Hall. Anchor. Bredon 1987
• Sociolinguistics R.A Hudson. CUP 1988
• The Articulate Mammal ( Anintroduction to Psycholinguistics) J. Aitcheson Hutchinson, 1983
• Psychology and Language ( an introduction to Psycholinguistics) Herbert Clark et al. Harcourt Brace, 1984

[B][I][U]Course Outline[/U][/I][/B]
• The scope and utility of sociolinguistics
• Speech communities & language diversity
• The sociolinguistics development of a child
• Essential sociolinguistic concepts
• Language and thought
• Influence of culture on language and vice versa
• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• Influence of media on language
• Language & social class; ethnic group & gender
• ELT & learning in Pakistan & its cultural impact
• Scope of psycholinguistcis as a discipline & its application in language, learning & teaching
• General theories of language acquisition
• Behaviorism & Mentalism: A comparison & contrast
• First language acquisition – A practical language programme
• Content Cuthbert or Process Peggy
• Second language learning
• Individual variations in language learning performance
• Aphasia & importance of psycholinguistics & the future of psycholinguistics

[B][I][U]P-7
Core Text[/U][/I][/B]
• Historical Linguistics T. Bynon
• A History of English Language Strang & Bloomfield
• From Old to Standard English Dennis Freeborn
• What is Linguistics? D. Crystal
• A study of Language George Yule
Course Outline
• Introduction to linguistics
• Introduction to language
• Sounds patterns of language
• Lexis
• Morphology
• Grammar & Syntax
• Semantics; pragmatics & discourse analysis
• Sociolinguistics
• Language
• Genealogical classification of a language
• Diachronic study of English language
• Synchronic study of English language
• Historical linguistics

[B][I][U]P-8
Core text[/U][/I][/B]
• Joseph Andrews. H. Fielding
• Pride and Prejudice. J. Austen
• The Mill on the floss. G. Eliot
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles. T. Hardy
• Wuthering Heights. E. Bronte
• The Heart of Darkness. J. Conrad
• A Passage of India. E. M. Foster
• A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. J. Joyce
• To the Lighthouse. V. Woolf
• The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner

[B][I][U]P-9
Essay/Stylistics
Essay: Literary Topics
Core Text[/U][/I][/B]
• College Writing Skills with Readings John Langan
• English Skills with Reading Johan Langan
• The Creative Writing Andrew Motion
[B][I][U]Course Outline[/U][/I][/B]
• Basics of good writing
• Paragraph writing technique
• How paragraphs are put together: transition
• Communication strategies in writing
• Language; process and structure of written discourse
• Different forms of writing; Descriptive; Narrative & Expository
• Composition & comprehension skills
• Argumentative writing; development of an argument; answering an argument
• Extensive practice in writing analytical essays on topics related to language; linguistics; literature; social & ethical issues

[B][I][U]Stylistics
Core Text[/U][/I][/B]
• Ways of reading M. Montogmery & Alan Durrant. Routledge

• Stylistics: A coursebook in Practical Stylistics Laura Wright. Routledge
o The clause
o Text structure
o Vocabulary
• Effective writing, Speed reading NUML
• Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature H.G. Widdowson. Longman
o The Nature of Literary Communication
o Literature as Subject & Discipline
o Stylistic Analysis & Literary Appreciation
[B][I][U]P-10
American & Canadian Literature
Core Text[/U][/I][/B]
• An Anthology of American and Canadian Literature-NUML
• A Long Day’s Journey into Night- Eugene O’Neil
• Two Solitudes- Hugh McLennan

[B][I][U]Course Outline
American Literature[/U][/I][/B]
• Walt Whitman
• Robert Lee Frost
• Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Ezra Loomis Pound
• Eugene O’Neil

[B][I][U]Canadian Literature[/U][/I][/B]
• Margaret Atwood
• Emily Pauline Johnson
• Charles Sangster
• Hugh MacLennan

[B][I][U]Sample Papers M.A English External
P-1
Time Allowed 3hrs Maximum Marks:100[/U][/I][/B]
Attempt any 4 Q.: 2 from each section. All carry equal marks
Section A
Q1. What literary ideals were emphasized & promoted by the writers of Neo-Classical Age in the 18th century? What were their achievements in literature?
Q2. What do you understand by the term HUMANISM? Throw light on the major aspects of Humanism as an intellectual and literary movement.
Q3 Briefly trace the contribution of the University Wits to English Drama?
Q4. The publication of TOTTLE’S MISCELLANY ushered in an era of new English poetry. Name some of the poets and their contribution.
Q5. What do you understand by the Puritan movement? How does Puritan literature differ from Elizabethan Literature?

Section B
Q1. Critically evaluate ARISTOTLE’s theory of tragedy.
Q2. Comment on Wordsworth’s concept of POETIC DICTION.
Q3. How did Coleridge differentiate between Fancy, Primary and Secondary Imagination?
Q4. Compare and contrast Johnson’s critical views on LYCIDAS & PARADISE LOST.
Q5. Evaluate Arnold as a literary critic.

[I][U][B]P-2
Time Allowed 3hrs Maximum Marks:100[/B][/U][/I]
Attempt any 5 Q. Q#8 is compulsory.
Q1. The fact that stress in English is not fixed presents a special difficulty for foreign learners of English speech. Discuss the main features of word-stress in English which create this special difficulty.
Q2. Define “Assimilation” and explain how neighbouring sounds influence one another and give rise to forms of pronunciation not indicated by the written forms of words or word-sequences.
Q3. The vowel diagram has been evolved on the basis of the concept of a vowel cavity in the mouth cavity. Explain the process of the development of the vowel diagram and discuss how it helps in describing vowel sounds.
Q4. Explain the following terms with examples:
• Falling Diphthongs
• Closing Diphthongs
• Centering Diphthongs
Q5.Explain the linguistic conventions which govern the distinction of invoiced and voiced plosive sounds in the initial, medial and final positions in spoken English.
Q6. Give a detailed description of Approximants.
Q7. Define the following terms:
• Phonology
• Aspiration
• IPA
Q8. Transcribe the following text phonetically.
Excuse me; could you tell me the way to the railway station?
Well, there are two ways of going there. It’s rather far from here.
I am in a bit of a hurry, you see. I have to receive someone and I think I am getting late. Which is the shorter of the two routes?
It’s shorter, but it’s also the busier. It’s generally full of traffic.
All right. You go straight ahead. A kilometer from here you’ll come to a choosing. Turn left there. You’ll find it’s a good road but very busy.
I understand. And, then?
You have to go on. It would be a ten-minute drive to a big round-about. Turn right here. The road will curve eastwards. Follow it. Another two kilometers or so, and you will be at the station. You can’t miss it.
Thank you I must be off. Thank you very much.

[U][I][B]P-3
Time Allowed 3hrs Maximum Marks:100[/B][/I][/U]
Attempt any 5 Q.s. Q 1 is compulsory. All Q.s carry equal marks.

Q1. Explain with reference to the context any 2 of the following:
a) His heed was balled, that shoon an any glass, And eek his face as he hadde been enoynt.
b) ‘Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime’, Said then the lost Arch angel, ‘this the seat That we must change for Heav’n….
c) The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave,
d) Behold her , single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass:
e) A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw
Q2. Explain in detail the characteristics that contribute to Chaucer’s art as a modern poet.
Q3. Why is Edmund Spencer considered as a Christian humanist?
Q4. It is said that Satan in Book-1 of Paradise Lost reflects the rage of Milton-the rebel-against royalty. Discuss in detail.
Q5. Discuss The Rime of The Ancient Mariner as an allegorical narrative.
Q6. Critically examine the statement that Wordsworth was the pioneer of the Romantic Movement.
Q7. Keats’ poetry highlights the importance of the senses. Elaborate.
Q8. Critically examine Shelley’s ADONAIS as an elegy.

[B][I][U]P-4
Time Allowed 3hrs Maximum Marks:100[/U][/I][/B]
Attempt any 5 Q.s. Q 1 is compulsory. All Q.s carry equal marks.

Q1. Explain 2 of the following with reference to the context:
a) ….my father’s spirit in arms? All is not well: I doubt some foul play;
b) Will you kindly inform me, if I am not asking too much which of these gentlemen you are engaged to?
c) ….it’s nearly the time we had a little respect for the dead, an’ a little more regard for the livin.’
d) That bloody rain, man, come right in on my head. Spoils my sleep. I could catch my death of cold with it, with that draught.
e) Oh! He’s gone! Without saying good bye! How could he! He might have waited!
Q2. Twelfth Night is a comedy of deception. Comment.
Q3. Discuss the tragic flaw in King Oedipus, with special reference to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero.
Q4. Discuss the play Dr. Faustus as the tragedy of the over-reacher.
Q5. Give character sketches for the following:
Fester
Creon
Mephistophilis
Q6. Would you say that the ideas expressed in Shaw’s Arm’s and the Man hold good in the contemporary world? Support your argument with examples from the text.
Q7. Juno and the Paycock has been interpreted as a ‘feminist’ play. Do you agree?
Q8. Do you subscribe to the view that Willy Loman falls in the category of a tragic hero in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman?

[U][B][I]P-5
Time Allowed 3hrs Maximum Marks:100
Attempt any 5 Q.s.[/I][/B][/U]

Q1. “Bacon’s essays are not merely to be swallowed but to be chewed and digested”. Comment
Q2. Elaborate Ruskin’s concept of Justice in his essay Work.
Q3. What philosophy does O’ Henry try to present in the story The Last Leaf and how successfully does he convey it?
Q4. He is a master of surprise endings. Give your appreciation of O’ Henry’s The Gift of the Magi in the light of this remark.
Q5. Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart is a fine psychological story of a murder. Discuss
Q6. Discuss Wilde’s The Happy Prince and The Devoted Friend as stories with moral.
Q7. Discuss the mysterious character of the old man in Charles Lamb’s essay Poor Relations.
Q8. Write a detailed note on Bertrand Russell’s prose style.