PU MA English Syllabus

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

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

Total Marks: 500

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

Paper I: Poetry II

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 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 III: Novel II

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 IV: (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 V: 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 VI: (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 VII (Linguistics)

Introduction
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Stylistics.

Paper VIII: (Essay)

Essay

The path to perfection and development is thorny and difficult, but leaving it means dying an animal. If we do not work through a MASS of useful books and understand more than others understand (who have grasped the power trough), then this little world will remain so. Many, especially biorobots, are quite happy with it. They are like pigs in slaughterhouses, already confronted with the fact that they are mortal and limited.