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PART 1
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SUBJECTS
PART 1
Karachi University (Private Candidate) Syllabus:
Paper I – Drama
Paper II – Poetry
Paper III – Literature & Society
Paper IV The History of English
Paper V – The English Language.
Paper I – Drama
No. Name of the Play Written By
1. King Lear William Shakespeare
2. Hamlet - do -
3. Antony & Cleopatra - do -
4. The Tempest - do -
5. Twelfth Night - do -
6. Henry IV - do-
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
1. King Lear William Shakespeare
2. Hamlet - do -
3. Antony & Cleopatra - do -
4. The Tempest - do -
5. Twelfth Night - do -
6. Henry IV - do-
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 By1. 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
1. Anglo Saxon or Old English Period 8th to 11th Century2. 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.
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.
English Grammar.
MA ENGLISH LITERATURE
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M. A. FINAL
S No Topic
Paper I History and Theory of Literacy Criticism
Paper II Poetry
Paper III Modern Literature and Its Background
Paper IV Fiction (Origin to 1900)
Paper V American Literature
PAPER I
HISTORY AND THEORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM
Section – A
1. Aristotle Poetics (ed. By L.J. Potts or
A.H. Fyfe or C.H. Butcher)
2. Sidney Defence of Poetry
3. Dryden Essay of Dramatic Poesie
4. Johnson Preface to Shakespeare
Section – B
5. Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads
6. Coleridge Biographia Literaria
7. Mathew Arnold The Function of Criticism; The Study of
Poetry; Essays on Wordsworth and Lord Byron, The Literary Influence of the Academics
8. Eliot, T. S. Tradition and Individual Talent; Meta-
Physical Poets; Eighteenth Century Poetry, Hamlet, Homage to Dryden.
9. Leavis, F. R. Keats (Revaluation), The Irony of Swift
(The Common Pursuit).
PAPER II
POETRY
Wordsworth The Preude Bks. I & II, Tintern Abbey.
Resolution and Independence, Lucy Poems.
Coleridge The, Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode;
Christabel
Shalley Ode to the West Wind, Adonais, The Skylark
Keats Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Ura,
Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn,
The Fall of Hyperion
Byron Childe Harold Canto I, The Vision of
Judgment.
Tennyson The Lady of Shalott, Selections from
In Memoriam, Tithonus, Ulysses
Browing Fra Lippo Lippi, Anndrea bel Sarto, Bishop
Blougram’s Apology, Prospice, Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came
Arnold The Scholar Gypsy, Thyrsis, Dover Beach, Rughy Chapel
PAPER III
MODERN LITERATURE AND ITS BACKGROUND
W.B. Yeats Selected Poems ed. N. Jeffares
T.S. Eliot Selected Poems ed. Faber and Faber and
Four Quartets
T.S Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
Conrad Nostromo
Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Forster A Passage to India
Woolf, Virginia To the Lighthouse
PAPER IV
FICTION (ORIGIN TO 1900)
1. Defoe Robinson Crusoe
2. Fielding Joseph Andrews
3. Austen Jane Emma
4. Thackeray Vanity Fair
5. Dickens Bleak House
6. Bronte, E. Wuthering heights
7. Eliot, George Adam Bede
8. Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D’urbervilles
9. James, Henry Portrait of a Lady
PAPER V
AMERICAN LITERATURE
1. Emerson Emerson’s Essays
Selections: I. On Nature
(a) The Introduction
(b) Beauty
(c) Language
II. The American Scholar
III. Self-Reliance
IV. The Oversoul
2. Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter
3. Melville, Herman Moby Dick
4. Whitman, Walt Selections from “Leaves of Gras”
Selections:
1. Song of Myself
2. Brooklyn Bridge
3. Passage to India
4. The Sleepers
5. When Lilacs Last
6. Out of the Cradle
5. Twain, mark Huckleberry Finn
6. Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
7. O’Neill, Eugene Long Day’s Journey into Night
Poems
8. Frost, Robert 1. The Road Not taken
2. Birches
3. Mending wall
4. Mowing
5. The Death of the Hired Man
6. Good Home
7. The Fear
8. Fire and Ice
9. West Running Brook
10. Two Tramps in Mud Time
11. Reluctance
12. Home Burial
13. An Old Man’s Winter Night
14. Dust of Snow
15. Once by the pacific
9. Wallace, Stevens 1. Domination of Black
Poems 2. Dry Loaf
3. Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds
4. Asides on the Oboe
5. Of Modern Poetry
6. The Emperor of Ice Cream
10. Zabel, D.W. (ed.) The following Selections from “American
Literary Opinion”.
Selections:
Winter, Yvor Robert Frost
Trilling, Lionel Freud and Literature
Trilling, Lionel Reality in America
Brooks, Cleanth Irony as a Principle of Structure
Wilson, Edmund Marxism and Literature
Kazin, Alfred William James and Henry James
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