REVISED COURSES OF THE PROGRAMME OF

MA ENGLISH W.E.F. SEPTEMBER 2012

SEMESTER-I

ENG-571 Communication / Study Skills
ENG-572 Literary Forms and Movements
ENG-573 Poetry-I
ENG-574 Novel-I
ENG-575 Linguistics


SEMESTER-II

ENG-576 Drama-I
ENG-577 Novel-II
ENG-578 Poetry-II
ENG-579 History of Literary Criticism
ENG-580 Short Story

SEMESTER-III

ENG-621 Poetry-III (Modern Poetry)
ENG-622 Drama-II
ENG-623 Novel-III
ENG-624 Womens Writings
ENG-625 Stylistics



SEMESTER-IV

ENG-626 American Literature
ENG-627 Modern Approaches to Literary Criticism
ENG-628 Drama-III
ENG-629 Prose
Option:


i) ENG-630 Pakistani Literature in English
ii) ENG-631 South Asian Literatures in English
Communication / Study Skills
Semester-I
Course Code: 571

Course Objectives
The aim of this course is to groom the students linguistically in such a manner that they
can operate independently on a reliable measure of communicative competence in the
twin productive skills of speech and writing. This course also aims to train students in
acquiring all the study skills required to cope efficiently not only with the challenges of
the English language but also with the demands of other subjects written in the English
language which need to be dealt with at optimal level of efficiency.

Course Contents

General Study Skills
Getting organized and knowing ones target
Dictionary skills
Using the library
Remembering and learning
Techniques for reading
Critical thinking
Tackling a book

Specific Writing Skills
Note-taking from lectures and books
Brainstorming]Outlining and summarizing
Paragraph writing and essay writing
CV writing and job application writing
Dealing with examinations

Specific Oral Skills
Discussion in tutorials
Effective classroom interaction
Giving a presentation
Taking part in seminars

Reading List
Wallace, M. 1980 Study Skills in English. CUP
Langan, J. 1981 English Skills McGraw Hill Book Co.
McWhorter, K.T. 1983 College Reading and Study Skills Little Brown & Co.
OBrien & Jordan. 1985 Developing Reference Skills Collins
Price-Machado, D. 1998 Skills for Success. CUP

Literary Forms and Movements


Course Code: 572

Course Objectives
This course is designed to introduce the students to the salient features and historical
development of different genres and literary movements in English Literature. The course
contents have been selected to serve two main purposes. Providing all necessary literary
background to the students and enabling them to cope with respective courses included in
the whole program.

Course Contents

Literary terms
Genres
Poetry
Drama
Novel
Short Story
Prose

Movements 16
th
century to 18
th
century
Renaissance
Reformation
Neo-classicism
Romanticism

19
th
Century
Naturalism
Art for Arts Sake

20
th
Century
Expressionism
Impressionism
Imagism
Stream of consciousness
Structuralism/Post-structuralism

Reading List

Daiches, D. 1983 A Critical History of English Literature
Gill, G. 1985 Mastering English Literature. McMillan
Burns & McNamara 1987 Literature, A close Study McMillan
Brooks, C. et al. 1975 An Approach to Literature. Prentice Hall
Cuddon, JA 1991 Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Penguin
Poetry-I


Course Code: 573

Course Objectives
This course aims at introducing the students to the classical period of English poetry
beginning from the medieval period to its growth and development into the eighteenth
century. Hence selections of poetry written by the most representative poets of the
respective eras are included in it. It begins from Chaucer in the 14
th
century and ends with
the neo-classical period of Pope in 18
th
century.

Course Contents

Chaucer
A selection of characters from the Prologue
- The Knight, The Squire
- The Monk, The Friar
- The Nun, The Wife of Bath

Elizabethan Sonneteers
One day I wrote her name upon the strand .. Spenser Amoretti 75
When forty winters will besiege thy browShakespeare
I with whose eyes her eyes committeth adultery.Sidney

Seventeenth Century Poetry
Donne The Sun Rising
When Thou Hath Donne
Milton Paradise Lost, BK-I (First 320 lines)

Eighteenth Century Poetry
Pope The Rape of the Lock (Canto III, First 50 lines)

Reading List

Bowden, M. 1967 The Metaphisical Poets. MacMillan
Dyson, AE (ed) 1974 The Metaphisical Poets. MacMillan
Kermode, F. 1971 Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne (introduction). Routledge & Kegan Paul
Beer, P. 1972 The Metaphisical Poets. MacMillan
Bowra, CM 1966 Heroic Poetry. MacMillan
Daiches, D. 1971 Milton, Hutchinson & Co.
Fraser, G. 1978 Alexender Pope. Routledge & Kegan Paul
Kermode F. 1967 The Living Milton. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Rudrum, A. 1968 Milton. MacMillan
Quennell, P. 1968 Alexender Pope. Weildfeld & Nicolson.
Novel-I


Course Code: 574

Course Objectives
The students will be able to recognize the characteristics of major chronological eras and
relate literary works and authors to major themes and issues related to literary devices
such as irony, symbolism, etc. The students will also be able to recognize the
development of character and plot in the novel and will be able to identify specific
connections between characters and other elements such as setting. Students will learn a
method of analyzing novels by starting with characters and moving outward to other
elements and will identify the most effective elements of selected novels.

Course Contents
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Mill on the Floss by Geroge Eliot

Reading List

Allen W. 1954 The English Novel: A Short Critical History. Penguin
Allot, M. 1959 Novelists on the Novel. Routledge and Kegan Paul
Bradbucy, M. 1973 Possibilities: Essay on the State of Novel. OUP
Dyson, AE. (ed) 1976 Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Peack,
The Anchor Press Ltd.
Dyson AE (ed) 1978 The English Novel: Developments in Criticism Since Henry James.
Macmillan
Gray, B. 1989 Geroge Eliot and Music. Macmillan
Hardy, B 1985 Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction Muthen & Co. Ltd.
Hardy, B. 1970 Critical Essays on George Eliot. Routledge & Kegan Paul
Karl, FR 1975 A Readers Guide to the Development of English Novels in the Eighteenth
century. Thomas & Hudson
Kennedy, A 1979 Meaning and Signs in Fiction. MacMillan
Mansell, D. 1973 The Novels of Jane Austen: An Introduction. Macmillan
Paulson, R. (ed) 1962 Fielding: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall Inc.
Peak, J. 1983 How to Study A Novel MacMillan
Pinion, FB 1981 A Geroge Eliot Comparision. MacMillan
Watt, Ian. (ed) 1963 Jane Austen: A collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall Inc.
Linguistics-I
Course Code: 575

Course Objectives
This course provides a general introduction to linguistics. After a brief history of the field
and a general introduction into the area of language systems and theories, the core
components of linguistics will be introducedphonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, discourse, and pragmatics. Theoretical and applied issues will be discussed
through the analysis of fragments of language in class, Students will be able to
Understanding how language is structured and need
Recognize some essential aspects of selected linguistics theories
Recognize the essential theoretical aspects of certain sub-fields of linguistics
Outline the role of certain linguistics sub-fields in everyday life

Course Contents
What is language?
Characteristics of Human language
Origin of language
Animal language
Body language/non-verbal language
Significance of language

Written and spoken language
Language types
Functions of language
History of language studies
Language universals

What is linguistics?
Branches of Linguistics
Misconceptions about linguistics
Status of linguistics
Levels of linguistic representation
Phonological
Graphological
Morphological
Syntactical
Lexical
Discourse
Major concepts in linguistics
Reading List
Barber, C. L. 1974 The Story of Language_London: Pan
Finch, G. 1998 How to Study Linguistics? London: MacMillan
Radford, A. et al. 1999 Linguistics: An Introduction. CUP
Widdowson H.G. 1996 Linguistics. Oxford University Press
Yule, G. 1996 The Study of Language. Cambridge: CUP

Semester-II Drama-I
(World Drama)


Course Code: 576 Program: MA English

Course Objectives:

This course aims at introducing the students to the world drama by focusing on the
religious origins of drama in both Greek as well as Renaissance ages. An attempt will be
made to familiarize the students with major trends in the dramatic art and popular themes
dealt by the artists of these ages, known as the golden periods in the history of drama.
The study will essentially focus upon the techniques of analyzing a play so as to enable
students to carry out independent study of other works of this age, which have not been
included in the course. The students will also be provided with essential information
regarding the history and evolution of the conception and technique of drama.

Course Contents:

Oedipus Rex
Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
Moliere: The Uneasy Husband

Reading List

Kitto 1960 Form and Meaning in Drama
Kitto 1973 Greek Tragedy
Levin, H 1964 The Over-Reacher, A study of Cristopher Marlowe, Deacon
Jump, J 1991 Doctor Faustus. Casebook Series
Caderwood and Toliver 1967 Perspectives on Drama. OUP
Sylan 1976 The Elements of Drama. OUP
McAlinder 1988 English Renaissance Tragedy. MacMillan
Belsey 1985 The Subject of Tragedy. Methuen
Howarth (ed) 1978 Comic Drama: The European Heritage. Methuen
Male. 1973 Approaches to Drama. George Allen & Unwin
Novel-II


Course Code: 577 Program: MA English

Course Objectives
The students will be able to recognize the characteristics of major chronological eras and
relate literary works and authors to major themes and issues related to literary devices
such as irony, symbolism, etc. The students will also be able to recognize the
development of character and plot in the novel and will be able to identify specific
connections between characters and other elements such as setting. Students will learn a
method of analyzing novels by starting with characters and moving outward to other
elements and will identify the most effective elements of selected novels.

Course Contents

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
A passage to India by E.M. Forster
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Reading List

Beja, M. (ed) 1970 Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse. Bristol: MacMillan
Bloom, H. (ed) 1986 Virginia Woolf: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House
Publisher
Bradbury, M. (ed) 1966 Forster: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall
Bradbury, M. (ed) 1975 E.M. Forster: A Passage to India. MacMillan
Casagrande, P.J 1982 Unity in Hardys Novels: Repetitive Symmetries. London:
MacMillan
Cavaliero, G. 1979 A Reading of E. M. Forster. London: MacMillan
Kramer, D. 1975 Thomas Hardy: The Forms of Tragedy. London: MacMillan
Lewis, S.W. (ed) 1975 Virginia Woolf: A collection of Criticismi. New York: McGraw
Hill
Martin, J. S. 1976 E.M. Forster: The Endless Journey. London: CUP
Pinion, F. B. 1977 Thomas Hardy: Art and Thought, London: MacMillan
Sprague, C. (ed) 1971 Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall
Poetry-II

Course Code: 578 Program: MA English

Course Objectives
This course is a study poetic forms from English Romantic and Victorian verse. Students
will be able to identify the characteristics of these periods as reflected through the poetry
of the selected representative poets. Important biographical details in the lives of selected
poets, the influence of historical, cultural, and artistic context upon selected major works,
and the use of literary devices will be analyzed.

Course Contents

Romantic Poets

William Wordsworth
o French Revolution
o Tintern Abbey/The Prelude (Selection)
P.B. Shelley
o Ode to the West Wind
John Keats
o Ode on a Grecian Urn
o Ode to a Nightingale

Victorian Poets

Browning
o My last Duchess
o The Bishop Orders His Tomb
Tennyson
o Ulysses

Reading List
Bloom, H. And Trilling, L. (eds) 1973 Romantic Poetry and Prose. New York: OUP
Bowra, G.M The Romantic Imagination
Camilla, F. Ed. 1966 The Romantics and Victorians. New York: The MacMillan Co.
Ford, B. Ed. 1982 From Blake to Byron. London: Penguin Books
Kennedy, X. J. 1994 An introduction to Poetry, 8
th
Ed. New York: HarperCollins. The
Case Book Series
Fotheringham, J. Studies of the Mind and Art of Robert Browning.
Muir, K. Ed. John Keats: A Reassessment Liver Pool
History of Literary Criticism

Course Code: 579 Program: MA English

Course Objectives
The course traces the history of literary criticism in English literature to the time of
Renaissance. The study of Aristotle and Longinus who came to life in the 16
th
century
England helps to see that the roots of critical thought in English literature lie in the
ancient Greeks. The views of the English critics from Sidney to T.S Eliot provide
landmarks in the development of ideas about art and literature. Altogether the course
provides a background to further developments in criticism in the 20
th
century from
social, psychological and linguistic perspectives.

Course Contents

Aristotle-Poetics
Longinus-On the Sublime

Sidney-An Apology for Poetry
Wordsworth-Preface to Lyrical Ballads
T.S. Eliot-The Tradition and Individual Talent

Reading List

Ambercormbie, L. Principles of Literary Criticism
Atkins, J. W. H. Literary Criticism in Antiquity
Daiches, D. Critical Approaches to Literature
James, S. The Making of Literature
Saintsbury, G. History of Literary Criticism
Wismatt and Brooks Literary Criticism


Short Story

Course Code: 580 Program: MA English

Course Objectives:

The aim of this course is to introduce student a new genre of literature, the short story, in
English Literature. The course as such will look at the development of short story as it
progressed from the 19
th
century to present times. It will also evaluate its thematic and
structural features from the perspective of modern principles of criticism.

Course Contents

What is a Short Story?
Elements of Short Story.
A Brief History of Short Story

British Short Story
The Man who Died by D. H. Lawrence
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
The Human Element by Somerset Maugham
The Manners of Men by Rudyard Kipling
The Liar by Henry James

Not-British Short Story
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Necklace by Guy de Maupssant
Hills like White Elephant by Hemingway
The Reckoning by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi

Reading List
Schwarz, D.R. 1980 Conrad Criticism and Companion.
Morverick 1966 Conrad 20
th
Century Views
Pinior, F.B. A.D.H. Lawrence Companion
Andrews, W.T. (ed) Critics on D.H. Lawrence
Draper, R. (ed) D.H. Lawrence
Andrews, W.T. (ed) Kafka 20
th
Century Views
Morgan, T. Somerse Maugham 1980.
Shaw, V. The Short Story: A Critical Introduction
Semester-III Poetry-III
Course Code: 621 Program: MA English

Course Objectives
This course aims at introducing the students to the representative 20
th
century poets. It
will also acquaint them to the existing trends in Modern English poetry. It begins form
W. B. Yeats and ends at Seamus Heaney.

Course Contents

W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming
Byzantium
Sailing to Byzantium

T.S. Eliot
The Love song of Alfred J. Prufrock
The East Coker

Ted Hughes
The thought Fox
Wind
Full Moon and Little Frieda

Philip Larkin
Church going
Ambulances
Going, Going

Seamus Heaney
Mother
This morning from a dewy motorway
Exposure

Reading List

Gardner, H. 1968 The Art of T.S. Eliot. London
Unterecker, J. (ed) 1970 Twentieth century View: Yeats
Comel, R (ed) 1971 Critics on Yeats. London
Southern, B.C. 1972 A students Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
T.H. Waite Anthony 1985 Poetry today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry (1960-1984)
King P. R. 1979 Nine Contemporary Poets: A Critical Introduction
Drama-II
Course Code: 622 Programs: MA English

Course Objectives
Focusing on the width and breadth of the Bards work, the students will be exposed to the
variety and richness in Shakespearean drama. This will be done by linking elements
(themes, characters, techniques) in Shakespearean plays with Greek and other
Renaissance dramatists, tracing the gradual development of the genre, which found its
fullest and finest expression in the art of Shakespeare. This module will also include
application and discussion of some postmodern theoretical constructs and emerging
trends such as feminism, post structuralism and deconstruction, which will continue well
into the module of modern drama in the last and the final semester.

Course Contents

Tragedies
Hamlet, King Lear

Comedy
Twelfth Night

Reading List
Bradbook 1973 The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy. CUP
Charney 1971 How to Study Shakespeare. McGraw-Hill
Bradley A.C 1955 Shakespearean Tragedy. Meridian
Wilson 1967 What Happens in Hamlet. CUP
Righter 1962 Shakespeareand the Idea of the Play. Chatto and Windus
Jump J. 1991 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Casebook Series
Muir (ed) 1965 Shakespeare: The Comedies. Prentice-Hall
Wilson. J. 1962 Shakespeares Happy comedies. Faber and Faber
Swinden 1979 An Introduction to Shakespeares Comedies. MacMillan
Hussey 1984 The Literary Language of Shakespeare, Longman
Blake 1983 Shakespeares Langauge. MacMillan
Novel-III
(Modern Novel)
Course Code: 623 Programs: MA English

Course Objectives
The students will be able to recognize the characteristics of major chronological eras and
relate literary works and authors to major themes and issues related to literary devices
such as irony, symbolism, etc. The students will also be able to recognize the
development of character and plot in the novel and will be able to identify specific
connections between characters and other elements such as setting. Students will learn a
method of analyzing novels by starting with characters and moving outward to other
elements and will identify the most effective elements of selected novels.

Course Contents

Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hameed
American Brat by Bapsi Sidwa
Ancient Sufferings


Reading List
Allen, W. 1954 The English Novel: A short Critical History, Penguin
Allot, M. 1959 Novelists on the Nove. Routledge and Kegan Paul
Bradbucy, M. 1973 Possibilities: Essay on the State of Novel. OUP
Dyson, A.E. (ed) 1978 The English Novel: Developments in Criticism Since Henry
James, MacMillan
Kennedy, A. 1979 Meaning and Signs in Fiction. MacMillan
Peck, J. 1983 How to Study A Novel. MacMillan
Green, M. The English Novel in the Twentieth Century.
Kettle, A. An Introduction to the English Novel (1&2)
Ghent, D. The English Novel: Form and Fuction
Womens Writings
Course Code: ENG.624 M.A. English Literature

Womens writings are associated with social and political change. Some of these changes
have been revolutionary in the redefinition of womens roles both in private and public
domains. This course includes womens voices in literature from across the globe who
express the challenges of changing sensibilities through female experience and new
genres. The genres include life writings, fiction, and poetry. The writers included come
from range of subject positions defined by race, nation and class.
Course Contents:
1. Life Writings:
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran
2. Fiction:
Toni Morrison Beloved
Gerd Bratenberg Egalias Daughters
3. Poetry:
Liz Lockhead Dreaming Frankenstein and two other poems
Sylvia Plath Daddy and two other poems
Emily Bront Three poems

Reading List:
Mill, S. (1998). Feminist Stylistics, NY: Routledge.
Showalter, E. (1979). Towards a Feminist Poetics, in M. Jacobus, ed. Women Writing
about Women
Spender, D. (1981). Man Made Language, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Williams P. & Chrisman L. (eds.) Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A
Reader, NY: Columbia University Press.
Woolf, V. (1966). Women and Fiction, Londong: Hogarth Press.
Anwar,W. (2009) Black Womens Dramatic Discourse: A Psychosemiotic Study of
Silence in Selected Plays by African American Women Dramatists. VDM Verlag

Stylistics
Course Code: 625 Programs: MA English

Course Objectives
This course introduces the students to the modern concept of style as distinguished from
the traditional one. The course will introduce the notion of style to the students, both in
literary and non-literary discourses from a purely linguistic perspective. This also
includes a comparison of style in literary and non-literary discourses in the context of
genre leading to the identification of different registers.

Course Contents
1. Introduction to Stylistics
a. Literature and Linguistics
b. Basic concepts
c. The code
d. The text
e. Text and Context
f. The critical language approach
g. Style: old concept of style, modern concepts of style, linguistic concept of
style, literary criticism, rhetoric, linguistics
h. Branches of stylistics: literary stylistics, computational stylistics,
phonostylistics, pedagogical stylistics
2. The code Analysis
a. Systagmatic and paradigmatic choices
b. Sentence
c. Lexis
d. Disocurse
3. Features/Contours of Literary text
a. Norm and deviation or code as resource
b. Patterns of sound
c. Meanings
d. Structures
4. Comparative Analysis of Literary and Non-Literary Discourse Style
a. Literary text compared to the language of conversation, religion,
newspaper reporting, legal documents, science and technology.
(This comparison is based on vocabulary and sentence analysis. The aim is to establish
the distinguishing features of literary register as a distinct text type.)
5. Text and context (Literature as Discourse)
a. Sign, meaning and context (value and significance of sign)
b. Non-linguistic pattern: genre, narrative, descriptive, dramatic conventions.
c. Autonomy and detachment (of the literary texts)
6. The Critical Theory in Linguistics
a. Structuralism, post structuralism and deconstruction
7. Literature as communication
a. The code and the message, text and interpretation, the writer/the reader/the
topic, the socio-culture context
Reading List
Chapman, R. 1975 Linguistics and Literature
Carter, R. 1982 Language and Literature
Crystal, d. and Davy, D. 1969 Investigating English Style
Leech, G. 1969 A linguistic Guide to English Poetry
Widdowson, H.G. 1992 Practical Stylistics
Semester-IV American Literature

Course Code: ENG.626

Course Description
The course contents of American Literature attempt to provide students a rich assortment of
American thought and develop their interest in historical and cultural progress through literature.
It helps the students to understand the authors in relation to their historical settings and growth of
American literature in terms of themes, forms and its distinctive features. It also enables the
students to make a comparative study of British and American literature.
Course Objectives
Students will read a variety of American writers and respond to historically and culturally
significant works of American literature. They will analyze and contextualize its evolution from
Romanticism to Modern times through unique perspective of different authors. This course will
enhance the understanding of literary form and function and will reinforce their literary
competence through meticulous analysis of the given text.
Course contents:
Novels:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
OR
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Poetry:
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (Section 1, 2,6,20,21,32,48,52)
Any Two representative poems of Emily Dickinson
Any Two representative poems of Edgar Alan Poe
Any Three representative poems of Robert Frost
Drama:
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O Neill

Short Stories:
Eves Diary by Mark Twain
A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

Suggested Readings:
1. The Norton Anthology: American Literature. New York, 1994 (4
th
Edition)
2. American Literature since 1900, M. Bradbury ed. Sphere Book, 1987
3. Contemporary American Literature, I.H. Milwauki, 1972
4. Pakistan Journal of American Studies. Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
5. American Literature vol.2, William Cain. Pearson/Longman Publishers, 2004.
6. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. James D.Hart. The Oxford University
Press, 1995.
7. Hawthorne: A Collection of Critical Essays (20
th
Century Views), A.N.Kaul ed. Prentice
Hall Trade, 1966.
8. The Art of Robert Frost. Tim Kendall, 2012.
9. Myth and Modern American Drama. Thomas E.Porter. Wayne State Univeristy Press,
1969.
10. Understanding the Old Man and the Sea. A Students Casebook to Issues,Sources and
Historical Documents. Greenwood Press, 2002.
Related Links:
1. Perspectives in American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm
2. Outlines of American Literature
http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/oal/oaltoc.htm
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Literature
4. http://www.america.gov/publications/books/outline-of-american-literature.html
Modern Approaches to Literary Criticism
Course Code: 627 Programs: MA English

Course Objectives
The aim of this course is to place the linguistic stylistics practiced by students in the third
semester in its proper perspective. The contents of the course introduce students to
modern and postmodern theory of literary criticism and practices.

Modern Influences on Literary Criticism
Frued
De Saussaure
Simone de Bauvoir
Marxism

Modern /Postmodern Movements
Formalism
Structuralism
Post-Structuralism
Deconstruction
Feminism

Applied Modern Criticism
Marion Shaw Virginia Wolfe
Rick Rylance Sylvia Plath
Peter Widdowson Graham Swift
Lindon Peach Toni Morrison

Learning Strategies of Modern Criticism
Norman Fairclough-Critical Language Awareness
Sara Mills-Feminist Stylistics
Paul Hamilton-Postcolonial Stylistics

Reading List
Philip Rice and Partrica Waugh (eds) 1989/2001 Modern Literary Theory. Arnold
Michael Levenson (ed) 1999 The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, CUP
Terry Eagelton 1983 Literary Theory: An Introduction, Basil Blackwell
Rick Rylance and Judy Simons (eds) 2001 Literature in Context, Palgrave
Todd E. Davis and Kenneth Womack (eds) 2002 Formalist Criticism and Reader-
Response Theory, Palgrave
Sara Mills-feminist Stylistics, Routledgte.
Helene Keyssar (ed) 1996 Feminist Theatre and Theory, New Case Boods, MacMillan
Jonathen Culler 1975 Sturcturalist Poetics. Routledge & Kegan Paul
Paul Mamilton 1996 Historicism, The New Critical Idiom, Routledge.l
Drama-III
Course Code: 628 Programs: MA English

Course Objectives
Looking at the prominent dramatists of the modern era such as Shaw, Ibsen and Rockett,
this module will take up some of the issues, themes and trends with which students will
already have been familiarized. Hence, the primary objective of this course is to expose
the students to a range of modern plays to analyse the emerging trends and techniques in
modern drama including nihilist discourses, deconstruction, theatre of the absurd,.
Feminism, postcolonial theories of race, class and gender.

Course Contents
G.B Shaw Major Barbara
H. Ibsen The Dolls House
S. Beckett Waiting for Godot

Reading List
Steiner, G. 1961 The Death of Tragedy. Faber
Fjelde, R. 1965 (ed) Ibsen: Twentieth Century Views. Prentice Hall
Egan. M. 1972 Ibsen: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul
Evans P.F. 1976 Shaw: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul
Morgan, M. 16974 The Shavian Playground. Methuen
Gassner, J. 1954 Masters of Drama
Ganz. A 1983 George Bernard Shaw: MacMillan
Hasan I. 2002 Samuel Beckett: Word master: Waiting for Godot.: Text with Critical
Commentary. Oxford
Esslin, M. (ed) 1965 Samuel Beckett: 20
th
century Views. Prentice Hall
Prose
Course Code: 629 Programs: MA English

Course Objectives
To familiarize the students with a wide range of functional and non-functional styles in
English Prose. Through an in-depth analysis of Bacons text in terms of his use of wit,
figures of speech, imagery and aphorisms, the course begins with the Renaissance prose
and moves on to an analysis of the layers of wit, irony, humlur, sacrcasm, sardonic, tone
leading to bitter and pungent satire in Swifts Gullivers travels. Husleys and Russels
prose styles are analyzed in relation to the contemporary thought and philosophy,
comparisons and contrasts in various pros writers style are also highlighted.

Course Contents
1. Bacon
The following selection from Bacons Essays
Of Truth
Of Death
Of Revenge
Of Marriage and Single Life

2. Swift
Gullivers Travels

3. Huxley
The Education of an Amphibion
Knowledge and Understanding
4. Bertrand Russel
The following essay from in Praise of Idleness
In Praise of Idleness
Useless Knowledge
Western Civilization

Reading List
Hawkins, M.J. 1972 Introduction in francis bacon: Essarys. JM. Dent and Sons
Vickers, B. 1978 Frabcis Bacon and Renaissance Prose. Longman
Speck, WA. 1970 Swift. Arco
PAKISTANI LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Course Code: ENG.630 MA English Literature

Topic:
Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
Identity and Difference: Issues of race, religion, nationality, gender
Themes: immigration, Diaspora, displacement and hybridity
Appropriation of English Language (Pennycook): Voices from the periphery
Cultural write back by men and women of colour
The Role of English in Literature of Pakistan (Sidhwa)

Novel/Memoir

Sara Suleri Goodyear Meatless Days
Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Oxford
Bapsi Siddwa The Crow Eaters. Milkweed
Kishwar Naheed A bad Womens Story. Oxford

Short Story
Selection of any TWO short stories from the volume And the World Changed edited by Shamsie
OR from any other volume of Pakistani writers short stories.

Translated Works:

Poetry of resistance by feminist poets of Pakistan including the work of Kishwar Naheed,
Fehmida Riaz, Sara Shagufta, Ishrat Afreen from the volume edited by Rukhsana Ahmad

The course tutor can choose any two short stories and/or translations and four poems to
showcase Pakistani writers works.

Select Readings:

Shamsie, M. (ed) (2006) And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women.
Oxford.
Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin (2002) The Empire Writes Back. 2
nd
Edition. Routledge.
Said, Edward (1978) Orientalism 3
rd
Edition. Penguin.
Said, Edward (1993) Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus
Suleri, Sara (2002) The Rhetoric of English India. The University of Chicago Press
Rehman, T. (2002) Language texts and Worldview. In Language, Ideology and Power Oxford
Lewis, Reina (1996) Gendering Orientalism: Race Femininity and Representation. Routledge
Gandhi, Leela (1998) Postcolonial Theory. Oxford.
Loomba, Ania (2005) Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London. Routledge
Goldberg & Quayson (2002) Relocating Postcolonialism, Oxford: Blackwell
Bhabha, Homi (2004) The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
Rukhsana Ahmad (1990) Beyond Belief. Lahore ASR publication
SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Course Code: ENG.631 MA English Literature
Introduction
This course has been designed for the students of English Literature to expose them to a variety
of literary discourses coming from the writers of South Asia. The selection includes Pakistani,
Indian, Afghani and Bangla writings. The selected texts highlight the cultural, political, and
social milieu of South Asia. The course is expected to make the students aware of concepts like
representation, ethnicity, canon, subaltern, centre/periphery, appropriation, and so on.

Novel/Memoir:
The course instructor can choose any two (2) from the following:
Fawzia Afzal-Khan Lahore with Love: Growing up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style
Aravind Adija The White Tiger
Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohammed Hanif A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Rajeev Balasubramanyam In Beautiful Disguises
Khalid Hosseini The Kite Runner

Short stories:
The course instructor can choose any three (3) short stories from the following:
Muneeza Shamsie (ed.) And the World Changed
Navid Shehzad (intro.) The Essential Reader: Stories from Pakistan. Oxford
Rabindranath Tagore Selected Short Stories. Oxford

Poetry:
The course instructor can choose any three (4) poems from the following:
Rabindranath Tagore Selected Poems. Oxford
Zulifkar Ghose 50 Poems. Oxford
Eunice de Souza (ed.) Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. Oxford

Select Readings:
Williams, P. and Chisman, L. (1994). Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.
Columbia University Press.
Ali, T. and Barsamian. D. (2005). Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali.
The New Press.
Young, Robert JC. (2001). Postcolonialism: A Historical Introduction. Blackwell.
Ghose, Z. (2009). Becketts Company: Selected Essays. Oxford.
Ashcraft, Griffiths and Tiffin. (2002). The Empire Writes Back. Routledge.
Suleri, S. (2002). The Rhetoric of English India. The University of Chicago Press.
Said, E. (1993). Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus.
Rehman, T. (2002). Language, Ideology and Power. Oxford.
Howe, S. (2002). Empire: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford.
Bhabha, H. (2004). The Location of Culture. Routledge.
Loomba, A. (2005). Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Routledge.
South Asian Review (2010) Vol. 31.3