PU MA English Syllabus Course Outline
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Punjab University MA English Syllabus /Course Outline
The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2018-2024.
The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003-to-2024 according to new syllabus in the year 2003-2024 towards : -
PU MA English Syllabus Course Outline Part 1
Punjab University M.A English Part 1 Syllabus | ||
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Outlines of Tests | Marks | |
Paper 1 | Classical Poetry | 100 |
Paper 2 | Drama | 100 |
Paper 3 | Novel | 100 |
Paper 4 | Prose | 100 |
Paper 5 | American Literature | 100 |
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. 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
PU MA English Syllabus Course Outline Part 2
MA English Paprt Two Syllabus
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.
Compulsory Papers | Marks | |
Paper 1 | Poetry II | 100 |
Paper II | Drama II | 100 |
Paper III | Novel II | 100 |
Paper IV | Literary Criticism | 100 |
Optional Papers (any one of the four optional papers) | ||
Paper V | Short Stories or | 100 |
Paper VI | Literature in English Around the World or | 100 |
Paper VII | Linguistics or | 100 |
Paper VIII | Essay | 100 |
Total | 500 |
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
Reference: Romon Seldon An Introduction to Literary Criticism
* Added vide Notification No.D/692/Acad., dated 15-3-2005
Optional Papers
The candidates are required to opt for any one of the four 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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