NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Syllabus Department of English Master’s .

 

 

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

 

 

 

 

 

Syllabus

Department of English

 

One-Year Master’s  Course

Effective from the Session: 2013-2014

 

 

 

National University

Subject: English

Syllabus for One-Year Master’s  Course

Effective from the Session: 2013-2014

 

                                    

Detailed Syllabus

 

Paper Code : 311101	-------	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 120 hrs.
Paper Title :	Chaucer

 

                                                            : ‘The General Prologue’ to The Canterbury

  Tales, ‘The Nuns Priests Tale’, Troilus and Cresyde

 

 

Paper Code : 311103	-------	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 120 hrs.
Paper Title :	W. Shakespeare

 

 

                                                            :  Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Tempest, Measure

  for Measure, Julius Caesar

 

 

Paper Code : 311105	-------	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 120 hrs.
Paper Title :	Modern Poetry

 

 

1.      W. Whitman                                        : ‘Song of Myself’

2.      W. B. Yeats                                        : Selected poems (ed. Norman Jeffares except

  the pieces included in the Honours Course)

 

3.                                                                                                                               Robert Frost       :  Poems (as in Norton Anthology-except the pieces    included in the Honours Course)

 

4.      W. H.  Auden                                     : Poems ( as in Norton Anthology)

5.                                                                                                                              Dylan Thomas : Poems ( as in Norton Anthology excluding `Fern

  Hill’)

6.      Seamus Heany                                    : Poems ( as in Norton)

 

 

 

Paper Code : 311107	-------	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 120 hrs.
Paper Title :	Modern Drama

 

1.       G.B. Shaw                                          : You  Never Can Tell

2.      Eugene O’ Neil                                   : Desire Under the Elms

3.      A. Miller                                              : Death of a Salesman

4.      Tennessee William                              : The Glass Menagerie

 

 

 

Paper Code : 311109	-------	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 120 hrs.
Paper Title :	Modern Novel

 

1.      E. Hemingway                                                : The Old Man and the Sea

2.      W. Golding                                         : Lord of the Flies

3.      N. Hawthorne                                     : The Scarlet Letter

4.      Aldous Huxley                                    : Brave New World

5.      J. Paul Sartre                                       : Nausea

 

 

Paper Code : 311111	-------	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 120 hrs.
Paper Title :	Prose

 

 

1.      W. Emerson                                        : ‘The American Scholar’

2.      H. D. Thoreau                                     : ‘Civil Disobedience’

3.      Virginia Woolf                                    : ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’

4.      T.S. Eliot                                             : ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’

5.      F.R. Leavis                                          : ‘Literature and Society’                   

 

 

Paper Code : 311113	-------	Credits : 4	Class Hours : 120 hrs.
Paper Title :	South Asian and African Literature

 

 

S. Waliullah                                        :           Tree Without Roots

Arundhati Roy                                    :           The God of Small Things

Kazi Nazrul Islam                               :           “The Rebel”, ‘Of Equality and the Happy Land’, “Man”, “Beware My Captain’ (as translated by Kabir Chowdhury and published in Poetry of Kazi Nazrul Islam” (Volume One) published by Nazrul Institute, Bangladesh.

Chinua Achebe                                   :           Things Fall Apart

Ngugi wa Thiong`o                             :           Petals of Blood

 

 

Paper Code : 311114	-------	Credits : 2
Paper Title :	Term Paper

 

 

Paper Code : 311116	-------	Credits : 2
Paper Title :	Viva-Voce