MA English (Previous) Karachi University (Private Candidate) Syllabus:

MA English (Previous)
Karachi University (Private Candidate) Syllabus:

Paper I – Drama

No.   Name of the Play                            Written By
1.   
King Lear                                   
  William Shakespeare
2.      Hamlet                                                - do -
3.    
Antony&Cleopatra                           -
4.     The Tempest                                       -
5.     Twelfth Night                                     
6.     Henry IV                                              
7.     Dr.Faustus                                   Christopher Marlow
8.    
The Al Chemist                            Ben Jonson
9.     The Way of the World                William Congreve
10.     Heart Break House                     George Bernard Shaw

Paper II – Poetry
No.     Name of the Poem                                          Poet
1.        The  Canterbury Tales                          Geoffrey Chaucer
2.        Faerie Queen                                          Edmund Spenser
3.        Donne’s Poetry                                            John Donne
4.        Paradise Lost                                                John Milton
5.        Absalom & Achhitophel                             John Dryden
6.        The Rape  of the Locke                               Alexander Pope
7.        Songs of Innocence & Experience            William Blake.

Paper III – Literature & Society
No.    Name of the Work           Prose Genre              Written By
1.       Bacon’s Essays                Essay                  Francis Bacon
2.       Areopagitica                   Pamphlet                     John Milton
3.       Pilgrim’s Progress      Long Narrative book       John Bunyan
4.       Gulliver’s Travel                       - do -            Jonathan Swift
5.       Culture & Anarchy                   Essay          Mathew  Arnold
6.       On Liberty                                 Essay          John Stuart Mill
7.       Chartism                                  Pamphlet     Thomas Carlyle
8.       The Coverly Papers                  Essay        Joseph Addison
9.       Mass Civilization &                                  
           Minority Culture                Prose work          F.R. Leavis                                             
10.     1984                         Novel                            George Orwell

Paper IV – The History of English Literature

1. Anglo Saxon or Old English Period    8th to 11th Century
2. Middle English Literature                   12th to 14th Century
3. Renaissance Literature                        15th to 16th Century
4. Early Modern Literature (Elizabethan)  Literature  1558 to 1603
5. Jacobean Literature                                              1603 to 1625
6. Caroline and Cromwellian Literature                     1625 to 1660
7. Restoration Literature                                            1660 to 1700
8. Augustan Literature                                               1700 to 1750
9. 18th Century Literature                                     Mid 18th to 1837
10. Victorian Literature                                            1837 to 1901
11. English Literature since 1901                               
12. Modern Literature                                    Till mid 20th Century
13. Post Modern Literature                            After 2nd World War

Paper V – The English Language.
Section A.
1. Teaching Methods of English.
2. Differences  between teaching methods.
3. Advantages & Disadvantages of different teaching methods.
4. Linguistics.

Section B.
1. Differences between American/British/Elizabathen English/Modern English.
2. Standarization of English.
3. Global importance, emergence of English.
4. Compiling of Dictionaries etc
5. Borrowing of words from other Languages.

Section: C
English Grammar.