BA English Notes,PU,UoS,IUB

10 Jul 2018

MA English part-1,2 syllabus and books Punjab University

Course Outline MA English part-1 Punjab University

M.A. (English) Part I Examination

(Outlines of Tests) Marks

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

Total= 500 Marks

Paper I: (Classical Poetry)

1. Chaucer " The prologue to the Canterbury Tale

2. Milton Paradise lost,Book -1 and 9

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