DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION, GOMAL UNIVERSITY, D.I.

KHAN
(Department Of English)

Course Outline

Level: M.A English Term: 1st

Course No Course Title Marks

1 Classics in Poetry 100
2 History of English Literature 100
3 Classic in Prose 100

4 Classic in Fiction 100

TITLES

1. Classics in Poetry

i. Geoffrey Chaucer Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

ii. John Milton Paradise Lost Book I
iii. John Donne “Good-Morrow”, “The Sunne Rising”, “Exstasie”,
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
iv. Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock Canto I
v. Thomas Gray Elegy written in the Country Churchyard

Recommended Readings:

• M. H. Abrams. The Mirror and the Lamp.

• Muriel Bowden. A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales, New York: Macmillan, 1960
• Bowra. C.M The Romantic Imagination
• Coghill Nevil. The Poet Chaucer. Oxford,1948
• Gardner, Helen, Ed. John Donne: Twentieth Century View Series
• Spens. Janet. Spenser’s Faerie Queene: An Interpretation, London 1934
• Tilloston. G. On the Poetry of Pope
2. History of English Literature

One of the objectives of this course is to inform the readers about how historical and

socio-cultural events influence literature written in English. Although the scope of the

course is quite expansive, the readers shall focus on early 16th to 19th century.

Topics

i. General background to Renaissance and Reformation

ii. The development of Sonnet Form.
iii. Elizabethan drama, prose, poetry.
iv. Milton, the Metaphysical and the Cavalier poets.
v. The Age of Reason and Neo-Classicism
vi. Augustan Satire
vii. The Rise of Novel
viii. Romantic Age

Recommended Readings:

• Bough. A. C. Literary History of English (4 Vol.), Routledge, 92 ed.

• W. H. Hudson. An Outline History of English Literature

3. Classics in Prose

i. Francis Bacon Essays: “Of Truth”, “Of Great Place”, “Of Studies”,
“Of Youth and Age”

ii. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels

iii. Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians: “Florence Nightingale”
iv. Bertrand Russell Skeptical Essays: “On the Value of Skepticism”,
“The Harm that Good Men Do”, “Eastern and Western
Ideals of Happiness”
4. Classics in Fiction

i. Fielding Joseph Andrews

ii. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Or Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (for private candidates)

iii. Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles

iv. Charles Dickens Great Expectations
or David Copperfield (for Private)

Recommended Readings

• Allen. Walter. The Rise of the Novel. London: Penguin

• Allen. Walter. The English Novel. London: Penguin
• Bloom, Ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Thomas Hardy, 1987
• Bloom , Ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Jane Austen 1987
• Bloom, Ed . Modern Critical Views: Charles Dickens, 1987.
• Cambridge Companion, Case Book and Twentieth Century Views Series on
Individual Novelists and genres

• Eagleton. Terry. The English Novel, Blackwell Publishing Company.

 DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION, GOMAL UNIVERSITY, D.I.KHAN
(Department Of English)

Course Outline

Level: M.A English Term: 2nd

Course No Course title Marks

1 Romantic Aesthetics 100
2 Modern Novel 100

3 Introduction To Linguistics 100

4 TESOL 100

TITLES

1. Romantic Aesthetics

The period of Romantic Aesthetics covered under this course starts from 1789 with

the advent of Blake’s work. This is the Romantic Revival period in which Blake.

Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats and Coleridge established its immense poetic richness.

i. William Blake Selection from Songs of Innocence and

Songs of Experience: “The Lamb”, “The

Little Boy Lost”, “The Little Boy Found”,

“The Sick Rose, “The Divine Image”,

“London”.

ii. William Wordsworth The Prelude Book I, Tintern Abbey,

“Intimation Ode”

iii. S. T. Coleridge “Kubla Khan”, The Rime of Ancient

Mariner

iv. P. B. Shelley “Ode to West Wind”, “Hymn to Intellectual

Beauty”, Prometheus Unbound (Act I)
 v. John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian
Urn”, “Ode to Autumn”, lines from The Eve

of St. Agnes (lines 1-100)

2. Modern Novel

i. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

ii. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

iii. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

iv. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

3. Introduction to Linguistics

The specific aim of introducing this course is to enable students to have conceptual

understanding of the basic concepts in linguistics and language study.

Contents

• Basic Terms and Concepts in Linguistics

i. What is language? (e.g. design features, nature and function of Language)

ii. What is linguistics?(e.g. diachronic/ synchronic; paradigmatic / syntagmatic
relations)

• Elements of Language.
i. Phonetics ( Sounds of English)
ii. Morphology ( Word-Forms and Structures)
iii. Syntax (Sentence Structures)
 iv. Semantics ( Meaning)
• Scope of Linguistics: An introduction to major branches of Linguistics

4. TESOL _ Teaching the Language Skills

Aims

This introductory course on English Language Teaching (ELT) combines the principles of ELT
with practice to enable students to see and perpetuate a model of classroom interaction and effective
teaching. The aim is to enable students to understand the theory

and practice of ELT with an opportunity to examine and understand the problems of ELT

in Pakistan.

Contents

1. Methods of language Teaching

• Approach, Method and Technique

• Selected ELT Methods: Grammar–Translation, Direct, Audio-Lingual
• Communicative Language Teaching
• Theories of Learning and Teaching

2. Theory and Practice of Teaching Oral Skills

• Nature of Oral Communication

• Theory and techniques of teaching listening and speaking
• Lesson Planning for Teaching Oral Skills
 DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION, GOMAL UNIVERSITY, D.I.KHAN
(Department Of English)

Course Outline

Level: M.A English Term: 3rd

Course No Course title Marks

1 Principles of literary Criticism 100
2 American Literature 100
3 Classic in Drama 100
4 Modern Poetry 100

TITLES

1. Principles of Literary Criticism

Principles of Literary Criticism I and II are intensive courses in literary criticism and theory. They
will prepare the students to understand the historical background to Literary Criticism and to
interpret literary text in the light of the principles taken up there.

i. Aristotle Poetics
ii. Longinus On the Sublime
iii. Dr. Johnson Preface to Shakespeare
iv. William Wordsworth Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
v. S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria Chapters 13, 14, 17, 18.

Recommended Readings

• Vinecnt B. Leitch ( General Editor). The Norton Anthology of Theory and

Criticism. New York & London: W.W.Norton and Company 2001 (Or later

editions)

• K.M.Newton, ed. Twentieth Century literary Theory: A Reader. Second

Edition. New York : St Martin’s, 1998 (or Later editions )
 • Selected Terminology from any Contemporary Dictionary of Literary Terms.

2. Poetry - II (Victorian and Modern)

i. Browning “The Last Ride Together”, “Andrea Del Sarto”

ii. Arnold The Scholar Gipsy, Dover Beach
iii. Hopkins “Pied Beauty”, “Carrion Comfort”
iv. W. B. Yeats “Among School Children”, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” ,
“Byzantium”, “Sailing to Byzantium”

v. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

3. Classics in Drama-I (Tragedy)

i. Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannous

ii. Marlow Dr Faustus
iii. Shakespeare Macbeth or King Lear (Any One)
(Macbeth for Private Candidates)

iv. Henrick Ibsen A Doll’s House or The Wild Duck

4. American Literature-I

Poetry

1. Walt Whitman Selection from Leaves of Grass: “When Lilacs Lost

in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, “As Adam Early in the

Morning”, “Cavalry Crossing Road”, “When Heard

the Learned Astronomer”, “A Noiseless Patient

Spider”
2. Emily Dickinson Selection: “I Dwell In Possibility”,” Wild Night
Wild Nights!”, “I Cannot live with You”, “Because

I Could not Stop for Death”, “I heard a Fly Buzz

when I Died”, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”,

“This is My Anthology to the World”, “Much

Madness is Divinest Sense”

3. Robert Frost “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The

Silken Tent”, “Birches”, “Out Out”, “Mowing”,

“Home Burial”, “Fire and Ice”, “The Road not

Taken”

Novel (any three)

i. Hawthorn Scarlet Letter

ii. Hemingway Farewell to Arms
iii. William Faulkner Absalom Absalom
iv. Toni Morrison Jazz
 DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION, GOMAL UNIVERSITY, D.I.KHAN
(Department Of English)

Course Outline

Level: M.A English Term: 4th

Course No Course title Marks

1 Principles of literary Criticism 100
2 American Literature 100
3 Classic in Drama 100
4 Modern Poetry 100

TITLES

1. Principles of Literary Criticism and Theory

i. Mathew Arnold “The Study of Poetry”

ii. T. S. Eliot “Tradition and Individual Talent”, “The Function
Criticism”

iii. Immanuel Kant “Analytic of the Beautiful” from The Critique of

Judgment . From Norton Anthology of Theory and

Criticism, (Page No. 505-519)

iv. F. W. Nietzsche “The Origin of Greek Tragedy” from The Birth of Tragedy,
from Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, (Page No.

884-895)

Recommended Readings

• Vincent B. Leith (General Editor ). The Norton Anthology of Theory and

Criticism. New York & London: W. W. Norton and Company .2001 (or Later

Editions)
 • K. M. Newton, ed. Twentieth Century Literary Theory: A Reader. Second
Edition. New York: St Martin’s 1998 (or later editions)

• Selected Terminology from any Contemporary Dictionary of literary terms.

2. American Literature – II

i. Eugene O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night

or Beyond Horizon (for Private)

ii. Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman (for Private)

or The Crucible

or All My Sons (For Private)

iii. Tennessee Williams Glass Menagerie (for Private)

or A Streetcar Named Desire

iv. Loraine Hansbury Raisin in the Sun

Recommended Readings

• CWE Bigsby. Critical Introduction to American Drama

• Cambridge Companion to Williams , Miller and O’ Neil

3. Classics in Drama-II

i. Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice (For Private Candidates)

 or Midsummer Night’s Dream

ii. Ben Johnson: Volpone

iii. Sheridan: The Rivals
iv. G. B. Shaw: Pygmalion

4. Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Rationale

This course aims to enable students to critically read and analyse poetry from the war and Post
World War II era to modern and contemporary times. Students will examine the poetic response to
developments in British and European history. They will also identify elements of poetic
experimentation in form, style and theme.

i. Ted Hughes “The Full Moon and Little Frieda”, “That

Morning”, “Her Husband”, “Hawk Roosting”, “The

Hawk in the Rain”

ii. Seamus Heaney “A Constable Calls”, “Mid-Term Break”, “Personal

Helicon”, “Digging”, “Churning Day”

iii. W. H. Auden “The Unknown Citizen”, “Musee des Beaux Arts”,

“In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

iv. Sylvia Plath “Morning Song” , “Ariel”, “Poppies in October”,

“Daddy”

v. Philip Larkin “Aubade”, “Mr. Bleaney”, “Ambulances”

Viva Voce

Viva voce of 100 marks will be arranged at the end of the 4th term examination, conducted by the
external and internal examiners.
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