Syllabus: M.A. English Literature (Qauid-e-Azam University)
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M.A. English Part-I

Paper I (Classical Poetry) -----100
Paper II (Drama) -------------100
Paper III (Novel) -------------100
Paper IV (History of English Literature and Prose) -------------(60 History & 40 Prose= 100)
Paper V (American Literature)-100
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Total 500

(SYLLABI 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. Surrey & Wyatt: Selection

Paper II: (Drama)

1. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
2. Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
3. Shakespeare: Hamlet
// As you like it
4. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

Paper III: (Novel)

1. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
2. Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice
3. G. Eliot: The mill on the Floss
4. Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
5. Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native

Paper IV: (History of English Literature & Prose)

1:History of English Literature from Anglo-Saxon period to 20th century
2. Bacon’s Essays:

1: Of Truth
2: Of Death
3: Of Revenge
4: Of Adversity
5: Of Simulation and Dissimulation
6: Of Parents and Children
7: Of Great Place
8: Of Marriage and Single life
9: Of Superstition
10:Of Friendship
11: Of Ambition
12: Of Studies

3. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
4. Bertrand Russell: The conquest of Happiness

Paper V: (American Literature)
Poetry

1. Adrienne Rich

Diving into the Wreck
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

2. Sylvia Plath

Ariel
Morning Song
Poppies in October
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
You’re

3: John Ashbury

Melodic Train
Painter
4: Robert Frost:

Birches
Stopping by woods on a snowy Evening
The road not taken
Bereft
Mending walls
An old man’s winter night
Home burial
Desert places

5: Emily Dickinson:

The Railway Train
I heard a fly buzz -when I died
Because I could not stop for death
Success is counted sweetness
In vain

Drama:

1. O’Neil: Mourning becomes Electra
2. Miller: The Crucible

Novel:

1. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to arms
2. Toni Morrison: Jazz