MA English is best from Punjab University but a little bit tough. The subjects for MA English in different Universities are different. That is why I have written this post exclusively for Punjab University Students.
PU MA English part 1 and part 2 syllabus and subjects
The complete information about Punjab University MA English syllabus, books, and course names, is given in detail. You can even download the complete syllabus of MA English for PU in PDF here on Study Pak. The link to download the syllabus in pdf is given below the image.
MA English part 1 syllabus and subjects
Course Title Marks
Paper I Classical Poetry 100
Paper II Drama-I 100
Paper III Novel-I 100
Paper IV Prose 100
Paper V American Literature 100
Total Marks: 500
Courses for MA English Part-I
The detailed description of the content relevant to MA English Part-I is given below in the series. This will increase your knowledge of the course concepts.
Classical Poetry:
● The Prologue
Chaucer
● Paradise Lost Books I & IX
Milton
● Love/Divine Poems
Donne
Pope
● Whose List to Hunt, They Flee from Me, Is it Possible Forget Not Yet, Madam Withouen Many Words, and What should I say Stand who so list.
Wyatt
● My Friend the Things That Do Attain Love, So Cruel Prison, Wyatt Resteth Here, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought.
Surrey
Drama:
● Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
● Dr. Faustus
Marlowe
● Othello
& The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare
● The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde
Novel:
● A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens
● Barchester Towers
Trollope
● Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen
● Adam Bede
G. Eliot
● The Return of the Native
Hardy
Prose:
● Selected Essay
Bacon
● Introduction from “Culture and Imperialism”
Edward Said
● Unpopular Essay
Bernard Russell
● Essay “The Redress of Poetry”
Seamus Heaney
● Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
American Literature:
Poetry:
Selected Poems
By John Ashbury,
Sylvia Plath,
Richard Wilber,
Adrienne Rich
Drama:
Selected Drama By “O’Neil and Miller”
Novel:
Selected Novel By “Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway”
MA English Part 2 syllabus and subjects:
Course Title Marks
Compulsory Courses:
Paper-I Poetry-II 100
Paper-II Drama-II 100
Paper-III Fiction-II 100
Paper-IV Literary Criticism 100
Optional Courses:
Paper-V Essay/
Linguistic/
Literature in the World/
Short Stories 100
Total Marks: 500
Content Description of the Courses “MA English Part-II”:
All the detail regarding to the content of the course included in Part-II of MA English is given below. It will cover both Compulsory and Optional Papers.
Compulsory Papers:
Poetry-II:
Section-I:
● From “Innocence and Experience” Selected Poems
Blake
● Hyperion Book I
Keats
● The Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Dejection
Coleridge
Section-II
● Mr. Bleaney
Church Going
Ambulances
1914
Philip Larkin
● A Constable Calls
Toome Road
Casting and Gathering
Personal Helicon
Tolland Man
Seamus Heaney
● That Morning
Full Moon and Freida
Thought Fox
Chances
Ted Hughes
Drama-II:
● Hedda Gabler
Ibsen
● The Cherry Orchard
Chekov
● Galileo Galili
Brecht
● Waiting for Godot
Beckett
● Bond The Sea
Edward
Novel-II:
● Heart of Darkness
Conrad
● To the Lighthouse
Woolf
● Things Fall Apart
Achebe
● Twilight in Delhi
Ahmad Ali
Literary Criticism:
Practical Criticism will be done.
● Poetics
Aristotle
● Critical Practice
Catherine Belsey
● Modern tragedy
Raymond William’s
● Apology for Poetry
Philip Sidney
● Tradition and the Individual Talent
T.S. Eliot
Reference will be taken from “An Introduction to Literary Criticism” written by ‘Romon Seldon’
Optional Papers:
Short Stories:
About 20 short stories are taken from different writers and included in the course.
Literature in English Around the World:
Drama:
Selected dramas by “Brian Friel and Lorca.”
Novel:
Selected novels by “Solzhynetsin and Nugugi.”
Poetry:
Different Poems by “Taufiq Rafat, Daud Kamal, Maki Qureshi, and others.”
Linguistic:
In the course, student will cover the basic introduction of Linguistics, Syntax, Phonetics, and much more.
Essay:
