GC University Faisalabad

English Department
Syllabus of M.A English (Part-I) 2009 & onwards
(Annual system for affiliated colleges and private students)
PAPERS

MARKS

Paper I (Classical Poetry)

Paper II (Drama)
Paper III (Novel)
Paper IV (Prose)
Paper V (American Literature)

100
100
100
100
100

Total

500

PAPER I (Classical Poetry)

1:
2:
3:
4:

Chaucer
Milton
Donne
Pope

The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

Paradise Lost Books I&IX
Love/Divine Poems
The Rape of the lock

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
(20 MARKS)
SUBJECTIVE
(80 MARKS)
Question No 1 (Compulsory)
Explanation with reference to context from the prescribed text
Three stanzas to be attempted out of four

PAPER II : (DRAMA)
1 : Sophocles
2 : Marlowe
3 : Shakespeare
4 : Wilde

Oedipus Rex
Dr. Faustus
Othello
The Winters Tale
The Importance of Being Earnest

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE
1ST Question is compulsory
Explanation with Reference to context
Attempt 3 out of 5 stanzas

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)
20 Marks

PAPER III (NOVEL)

1:
2:
3:
4:
5:

Trollope
Jane Austen
G. Eliot
Dickens
Hardy

Barchester towers
Pride & Prejudice
Adam Bede
A Tale of Two Cities
The return of the Native

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

PAPER IV (Prose)
1 : Bacon

Essays : Of truth, Of Death, Of Revenge, Of Adversities,

2:
3:
4:
5:

Of Simulation and Dissimulation, Of Parents and Children, Of

Great Place, Of Nobilities, Of Superstition, Of Friendship, Of
Ambition, Of Studies.
Gullivers Travels
Unpopular Essays
Introduction of cultural & Imperialism
The Redress of Poetry

Jonathan Swift
Bertrand Russell
Edward Said
Seamus Heaney

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

PAPER V : (American Literature)

Poetry:
1 : Adrienne Rich

Diving into the Wreck

Aunt Jennifers tiger
Final Notation
Ariel
Morning Song
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee
Birches
Bereft
The Road Not Taken
Home Burial
Melodic Train
Painter

2 : Sylvia Plath

3 : Robert Frost

4 : John Ash bury

Drama :
1. ONeill
2. Miller

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Crucible

Novel:
1 . Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls.
PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

There will be 2 Sections:

Section A :
Section B :

Poetry
Drama and Novel

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

Syllabus of M.A English (Part-II) 2009 & onwards

(Annual system for affiliated colleges and private students)
Note : The 1st Four papers are Compulsory. The fifth paper comprises four
options and the examinee has to opt out of the four.
Appendix (A)

COMPULSORY PAPER

MARKS

Paper I (Poetry II)

Paper II (Drama II)
Paper III (Novel II)
Paper IV (Literary Criticism)

100
100
100
100

OPTIONAL PAPER
Paper V (Short Stories)
OR
Paper VI (Literature in English around the world) OR
Paper VII (Linguistics)
OR
Paper VIII (Essays)

Total

100
100
100
100

500

Paper I (Poetry II )
Section A:
1st question is compulsory
Explanation with reference to the context
Attempt 3 out of 5 stanzas
1 Blake

2 Coleridge

3 Keats

20

A Selection from songs of innocence & Experience.

i)
Auguries of innocence
ii)
The sick Rose
iii) London
iv) A Divine Image
v)
The Tyger
The Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan.
Dejection : An Ode
Ode to Autumn

Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Section B :
1 T.S Eliot
2 Philip Larkin

3 Seamus Heaney

4 Ted Hughes

The Waste Land

Mr. Bleany
Church Going
Ambulances
1914.
Personal Helicon
Tolland Man
A Constable Calls
Toome Road
Casting and Gathering
Thought Fox
Chances
That Morning
Full Moon & Freida

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
(20 MARKS)
SUBJECTIVE
(80 MARKS)
Attempt two questions out of 3, based on section B ( 4 poets)

PAPER II : (Drama II)

1st Question is Compulsory
Explanation with reference to context
Attempt 3 out of 5 stanzas
1 Ibsen
2 Chekov
3 - Breeht
4 Beckett
5 Pinter

20

Hedda Gabler
The Cherry Orchard
Galelio Galili
Waiting for Godot
Care Taker

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

PAPER III : (Novel)

1 Conrad
2 Joyee
3 Woolf
4 Achebe
5 Ahmad Ali

Heart of Darkness
Portrait of an Artist
To the light house
Things fall Apart
Twilight in Delhi

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

PAPER IV (Literary Criticism)

1 Aristotle
2 Raymond Williams
3 Catherine Belsey
4 T.S Eliot

Poetics
Modern Tragedy
Critical Practice
Tradition & Individual Talent

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

Paper VI (Literature in English around the world)

Drama
1 Lorea
2 Brain Friel

House of Bernada Alba

Translation

Novel
1 Nugugi
2 Solzhenitsyn

The River Between

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Poetry
1 Taufiq Rafat
2 Daud Kamal

3 Maki Qureshi

4 A Hashmi

Thinking of Mohenjodaro
The Stone Chat
Reproduction
The Street of Nightingale
A Remote Beginning
Air Raid
Kite
Christmas
Letter tomy Sister
Encounter with the Sirens
Untumnal

5 Zulfiqar Ghose

6 Shirley Lim
7 Vikram Seth
8 Anna Akhmatova
9 Derek Waleott
10 Ben Okri
11 Achebe
12 Nasim Ezekiel
13 Moniza Alvi

But Where in the Sky?

Across India
February 1952
The Mystique of Root
A Memory of Asia
Mansoon History
Modern Secretes
Humble Administrators Garden
Prologue Epilogue
Far Cry From Africa
African Elegy
Refugee Mother & Child
Mange Seed
Night of the Scopion
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa
The Country at my Shoulder

PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

PAPER VII (Linguistics)

Introduction, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Stylistics.
PAPER PATTERN
OBJECTIVE
SUBJECTIVE

(20 MARKS)
(80 MARKS)

PAPER VIII : (Essays)

Attempt any one essay :

100 Marks