MA ENGLISH LITERATURE
COURSE OUTLINE
M.A FINAL
KARACHI UNIVERSITY
LIST OF CONTENTS
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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