M.A English Part-2 Syllabus Of GCUF

Government College University, Faisalabad
Department of English
M.A ENGLISH PART-I1
Note: The first four papers are compulsory; the other three are optional.
The candidates are required to opt any one of the three optional papers.
COMPULSORY PAPERS MARKS
Paper I (Poetry II) 100
Paper II (Drama II) 100
Paper III (Novel II) 100
Paper IV (Literary Criticism) 100
OPTIONAL PAPERS MARKS
Paper V (Short Stories) OR 100
Paper VI (Literature in English around the World) OR 100
Paper VII (Essays) 100
TOTAL 500
(SYLLABUS AND COURSES OF READING)
PAPER I: POETRY II (Section A)
1- Blake A Selection from Songs of Innocence & Experience
i) Auguries of innocence
ii) The Sick Rose
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iii) London
iv) A Divine Image
v) The Tyger
vi) A Poison Tree
vii) From Milton: and Did those Feet
viii) Holy Thursday (I)
ix) Holy Thursday (II)
x) Ah, Sun Flower
2- Coleridge The Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan.
Dejection: An Ode
3- Keats Ode to Autumn
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Hyperion Book I
Section B
1- Philip Larkin Mr. Bleany
Church Going
Ambulances
1914
3-Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon.
Tolland Man
A Constable Calls
Toome Road
Casting and Gathering
4- Ted Hughes Thought Fox
Chances
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That Morning
Full Moon & Freida.
PAPER PATTERN
First question is compulsory.
Explanation with reference to the context
Attempt 3 out of 6 stanzas.
PAPER II: DRAMA II
1- Ibsen Hedda Gabler
2- Chekov The Cherry Orchard
3- Brecht Galileo Galili
4- Beckett Waiting for Godot
5- Edward Bond The Sea
PAPER PATTERN
First question is compulsory.
Explanation with reference to the context:
Attempt 3 out of 5 stanzas.
PAPER III: NOVEL
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
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PAPER IV: LITERARY CRITICISM
1- Aristotle Poetics
2- Raymond Williams Modern Tragedy
3- Catherine Belsey Critical Practice
4- T.S Eliot Tradition & Individual Talent
Optional Papers
PAPER V: SHORT STORIES
1- Sara Suleri The Property of Women
2- Naguib Mahfuz The Mummy
3- E. Allen Poe The Man of Crowd
4- Doris Lessing African Short Story
5- Flannery O’ Connor Everything that Rises Must Converge
6- James 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 Love Islands
13- W. Trevor The Day
14- Alice Walker Strong Horse Tea
15- V. S. Prichett The Voice
16- Brian Friel The Diviner
17- H. E. Bates The Woman who Loved Imagination
18- Ali Mazuri The Fort
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19- Amy Tan The Voice from the Wall
20- A. Chekhov The Man who lived in a Shell
21- Braithwaite Dream Hatii
22- V. S. Naipul The Night Watchman’s Occurrence Book
23- E. Hemingway A Clean Well-lighted Place
PAPER VI: LITERATURE AROUND THE WORLD
Drama
1- Lorea 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
untumnal
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But Where in the Sky?
5- Zulfiqar Ghose Across India
February 1952
The Mystique of Root
A Memory of Asia
6- Shirley Lim Mansoon 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
Mange Seed
12- Nasim Ezekiel Night of the Scorpion
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa
13- Moniza Alvi The Country at my Shoulder
PAPER VII: ESSAYS
Attempt any one essay. 100 Marks
Chairperson,