MA English Semester System 2014

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 16th

century to 18th

century

Renaissance

Reformation

Neo-classicism

Romanticism

19th

Century

Naturalism

Art for Arts Sake

20th

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 14th

century and ends with

the neo-classical period of Pope in 18th

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 Objectives








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 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, 8th

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 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 16th

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 20th

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 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 19th

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 20th

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 20th

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 20th

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








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 (4th 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 (20th 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: 20th

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. 2nd

Edition. Routledge.

Said, Edward (1978) Orientalism 3rd

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

MA English Semester System 2014

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