Syllabus of MA English Part-1 GCUF

Government College University, Faisalabad
Department of English
9. Syllabus of MA English
Part-1
PAPERS MARKS
Paper 1 (Classical Poetry) 100
Paper II (Drama) 100
Paper III (Novel) 100
Paper IV (Prose) 100
Paper V (American Literature) 100
TOTAL 500
(SYLLABUS AND COURSES OF READING)
PAPER I (CLASSICAL POETRY)
1. Chaucer The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
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
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So Cruel Prison
Wyatt Resteth Here
PAPER PATTERN
Question No 1 is Compulsory.
Explanation with reference to context from the prescribed texts:
Four stanzas to be attempted out of eight .
PAPER II: (DRAMA)
1. Sophocles Oedipus Rex
2. Marlowe Dr. Faustus.
3. Shakespeare Othello
The Winter’s Tale
4.Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest.
PAPER PATTERN
First question is compulsory.
Explanation with reference to the context:
Attempt 3 out of 5 passages
PAPER III: (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
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PAPER IV: (PROSE)
1. Bacon Essays: Of truth, Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Adversity,
Of Simulation and Dissimulation, Of Parents
and Children, Of Great Place, Of Nobilities, Of
Superstition, Of Friendship, Of Ambition, Of
Studies.
2. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
3. Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays
4. Edward Said Introduction of Culture & Imperialism
5. Seamus Heaney The Redress of Poetry
PAPER V: (AMERICAN LITERATURE)
Poetry
1. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck
Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger
Final Notation.
Gabriel
2. Sylvia Plath Ariel
Morning Song
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
You’re
3. Richard Wilbur Still Citizen Sparrow
After the Last Bulletin
Marginalia
4. John Ashbury Melodic Train
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Painter
Drama:
1. O’Neill Mourning Becomes Electra
2. Miller The Crucible
Novel:
1. Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls.
2. Toni Morrison Jazz
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Government College University, Faisalabad
Department of English