MA English Part two Syllabus Punjab University

MA English Part II Syllabus, papers and books Punjab University; Part Two



University of the Punjab has divided MA English Examinations in two parts i.e. Part One and Part Two. A student cannot appear in combined exams i.e. MA part 1 and 2 cannot be taken up for exams together. A studen must pass Part I before appearing in the 2nd part of MA English. However, supplementary candidates are allowed to appear in MA Part 2 exams. Below2 is the details of MA Part two Exam papers. Keep in mind that Part two exam consists of 4 compulosry while 1 electice paper. The details of Compulsory and Elective papers is given below:

Appendix A: Outline of MA English Part Two Compulsory Papers and Books.
                                  
                                         

                        Paper No.           paper name                     mark
                        paper 1                poetry 2                             100                       
                        paper 2                Drama 2                            100
                        paper 3                novel  3                             100

                        paper 4                literarary criticism            100

Appendix A: MA English Part two Optional Papers. At least one paper is mandatory from below appended list of papers.

                         Paper No.           paper name                     mark

                         paper 5                short stories                      100

                         paper 6               literature in english           100

                                                    around the world

                         paper 7               linguistics                          100

                         paper 8               eassay                                100

                        TOTAL MARKS:500

Appendix B: Details of MA English Part II Papers with Author Names

Paper 1: Poetry 2

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)

2. Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan 

    Dejection: An Ode 

3. Keats: Hyperion Book I Ode to Autumn Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn 

4. Philip Larkin: Mr. Bleaney Church Going Ambulances 1914 

5. Seamus Heaney: Personal Helicon Tolland Man A Constable Calls Toome Road Casting and              Gathering 

6. Ted Hughes: Thought Fox Chances That Morning Full Moon and Freida

Paper 2: Drama 2 

1. Ibsen: Hedda Gabler 

2. Chekov: The Cherry Orchard 

3. Brecht: Galileo Galili

 4. Beckett:Waiting for Godot 

5. Edward Bond: The Sea 

Paper 3: Novel 2

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 4: (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

Optional Papers Paper 

5: 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 6: (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 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 AlviThe Country at my Shoulder 

Paper 7 (Linguistics) 

Introduction

Phonetics 

Phonology 

Morphology 

Syntax 

Semantics 

Stylistics. 

Paper 8: (Essay) 

Essay