MA English Part One Syllabus Punjab University; (part one syllabus)
MA English Part II 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 | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Paper I | Classical Poetry | 100 |
| Paper II | Drama | 100 |
| Paper III | Novel | 100 |
| Paper IV | Prose | 100 |
| Paper V | American Literature | 100 |
Total Marks: 500
Appendix B: Books & subject names of MA English Part I Papers
Paper I: (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 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 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
Paper IV: (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 V: (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 Tolls2. Toni Morrison Jazz
MA English Part II Syllabus