M.A. English Syllabus
Duration: 2 Years
Level: Post Graduation
Type: Degree
Eligibility: Graduation or Equivalent
M.A. English or Master of Arts in English is a postgraduate academic degree. English literature includes comprehensive study of both ancient and modern English literature comprising poetry, prose and fiction. The literature is written in the English language not only by English writers from England but also from the other country writers, for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J. R. R. Tolkien was born in the Orange Free State, V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian, but all are considered important writers in the history of English literature. The course also includes thorough study of Indian Writings in English from its very early times to the contemporary ones. The duration of the course is two years and the syllabi are divided into four semesters.
Annexure ‘I’
M.A. English Part-I & II
M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2018
Appendix ‘A’
(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
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Total 500
Appendix ‘B’
(SYLLABUS 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 2
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
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) 3
2. Miller The Crucible
Novel
1. Ernest Hemingway For whom the Bell Tolls
2. Toni Morrison Jazz
M. A. (English) Part II Examination 2018
Appendix ‘A’
(Outlines of Tests)
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 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
Appendix ‘B’
(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)
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 4
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
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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 6
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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