MA English Syllabus Punjab University

The University of Punjab last changed its MA English Syllabus in the year 2002-2003. The Appendix ‘A’ Contains outline while Appendix B contains the detail of papers.

M.A. (English) Part One Examination of 2003. The change of Punjab University Syllabus was not welcome initially as the faculty as well as students found difficult to adjust to the new syllabus. Punjab university had to award passing marks to the students appearing in the early years of change of syllabus.Currently, a student can pass MA English if he/she obtains 40% marks in each paper while the aggregate/average remains at least 45%.

University of the Punjab has divided MA English Examinations in two parts i.e. Part One and Part Two. A student cannot appear in combined exams i.e. MA part 1 and 2 cannot be taken up for exams together. A student must pass Part I before appearing in the 2nd part of MA English. However, supplementary candidates are allowed to appear in MA Part 2 exams. Below are the details of MA Part two Exam papers.

MA English Syllabus Punjab University – Part One:

Appendix A: Outline of MA English Part I Papers

Paper No.	Paper Name	Marks
Paper I	Classical Poetry	100
Paper II	Drama	100
Paper III	Novel	100
Paper IV	Prose	100
Paper V	American Literature	100

Total Marks: 500

Appendix B: Books & subject names of MA English Part I Papers

Paper I: (Classical Poetry)

Chaucer The Prologue
Milton Paradise Lost Books I & IX
Donne Love/Divine Poems
Pope The Rape of the Lock.
Wyatt: The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor
Whose List to Hunt
Madam Withouen Many Words
They Flee from Me.
Is it Possible Forget Not Yet
What should I say Stand who so list
Surrey My Friend the Things That Do Attain Love
That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought
So Cruel Prison
Wyatt Resteth Here

Paper II: (Drama)

Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Marlowe Dr. Faustus
Shakespeare Othello
The Winter’s Tale
Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Paper III: (Novel)

Trollope Barchester Towers
Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
G. Eliot Adam Bede
Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Hardy The Return of the Native

Paper IV: (Prose)

Bacon Essays:
Of Truth
Of Death
Of Revenge
Of Adversities
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
Of Parents and Children
Of Great Place
Of Nobilitie
Of Superstition
Of Friendship
Of Ambition
Of Studies
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays
Edward Said Only the introduction to the book entitled “Culture and Imperialism”
Seamus Heaney Only the essay “The Redress of Poetry” from the book entitled The Redress of Poetry.

Paper V: (American Literature)

Poetry

Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Final Notation
Gabriel
Sylvia Plath , Ariel
Morning Song
Poppies in October
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box & Ariel
Richard Wilbur Still Citizen Sparrow
After the last Bulletin
Marginalia
John Ashbury Melodic Train
Painter

Drama

O’Neil Mourning becomes Electra (only the First of the Trilogy which is titled ‘The Home Coming’ is included in the M.A. Syllabus)
Miller The Crucible

Novel

Ernest Hemingway For whom the Bell Tolls
Toni Morrison Jazz