MA English Part One Syllabus Punjab University

MA English Part One Syllabus Punjab University (part one syllabus)


The University of Punjab last changed its MA English Syllabus in the year 2002-2003. The Appendix 'A' Contains outline while Appendix B contains the detail of papers. M.A. (English) Part One Examination of 2003. The change of Punjab University Syllabus was not welcome initially as the faculty as well as students found difficult to adjust to the new syllabus. Punjab university had to award passing marks to the students appearing in the early years of change of syllabus.Currently, a student can pass MA English if he/she obtains 40% marks in each paper while the aggregate/average remains at least 45%.

Appendix A: Outline of MA English Part I   Papers 
     
                        Paper No.           paper name                     mark
                        paper 1                classical poetry                 100                       
                        paper 2                Drama                               100
                        paper 3                novel                                 100
                        paper 4                prose                                 100
                        paper 5                american literature           100
                       Total mark :500

Appendix B: Books & subject names of MA English Part I Papers 

Paper 1: (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 2: (Drama) 

1. Sophocles Oedipus Rex 

2. Marlowe Dr. Faustus 

3. Shakespeare Othello The Winter's Tale 

4. Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Paper 3: (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 4: (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 5: (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 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 

                                              

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