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    Karakorum International University

    Syllabus for MA English (Private)

    PART I MARKS
    Paper 1. Poetry (Classical + Modern) 100
    Paper 2. Prose 100
    Paper 3. Novel (Classical + Modern) 100
    Paper 4. Introduction to Linguistics 100
    Paper 5. Sociolinguistic 100

    Total [500]

    Syllabus and Courses of Reading


    Part I

    Paper 1: Poetry (ELL 525)


    1 Chaucer The prologue to The Canterbury Tales
    2 Milton Paradise Lost Book I & IX
    3 Donne Love/ Devine Poems
    4 Wordsworth The Prelude
    5 Keats Odd to Grecian Urn
    Odd to Melancholy
    6 Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon
    A Constable Calls
    Casting and Gathering
    7 W.B. Yeats Among School Children
    Second Coming Easter
    8 Ted Hughes That Morning
    Thought Fox
    Hawk Roosting
    Paper 2: Prose (ELL 526)

    1. Bacon Of Truth
    Of Death
    Of Revenge
    Of Parents and Children
    Of Superstition
    Of Friendship
    Of Studies
    2. Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays
    3. Seamus Heaney Only the Essay “The Redress of Poetry” from the
    book entitled The Redress of Poetry

    Paper 3: Novel (ELL 527)

    1. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice


    2. George Eliot Adam Bede
    3. Dickens A tale of two Cities
    4. Woolf To the light House
    5. Ahmed Ali Twilight in Delhi

    Paper 4: Introduction to Linguistics


    1. George Yule, The St1udy of Language (6th edition): Cambridge University Press

    2. Marcus Kracht , Introduction to Linguistics.

    3. Nanik Mariani, Fatchul Mu’in & Yusuf Al Arief, An Introduction to Linguistics


    Paper 5: Sociolinguistic
    1. Ronald Wardhaugh, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (5th/6th ed.).
    2. Meyerhoff, Miriam 2011 (2nd edition). Introducing Sociolinguistics London and New
    York: Routledge.
    3. Hudson, Richard 1996. (2nd edition). Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
    Press.

    Syllabus and Course for Reading


    Part II

    Compulsory Paper
    Paper1. Drama 100
    Paper 2. Literary Theory and Criticism 100
    Paper 3. Semantics and Pragmatics 100

    Optional Paper
    Paper 4. Morphology 100
    Paper 5. Second Language Acquisition OR 100
    Paper 6. American Literature 100
    Paper 7: Pakistani Literature in English OR 100

    Total [500]

    Paper 1: Drama (ELL 625)


    1. Shakespeare Hamlet
    2. Ibsen Hedda Gabler
    3. G. B Shaw Arms and the Man
    4. Brecht Galileo Galili
    5. Edward Bond The Sea
    6.

    Paper 2: Literary Criticism and Theory (ELL 626)


    1. Aristotle Poetics
    2. Longinus On Sublimity
    3. Raymond Williams Modern Tragedy
    4. Catherine Belsay Critical Practice

    Paper 3: Semantics and Pragmatics


    1. George Yule, Pragmatics (1996): Oxford University Press.
    2. Patrick Griffiths, An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics (2006):
    Edinburgh University Press.
    3. Nick Riemer, Introducing Semantics (2010): Cambridge University Press.

    Optional Papers
    Paper 4: Morphology
    1. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their
    Structure, Edinburgh University Press

    2. Victoria Fromkin, David Blair, Peter Collins, An Introduction to Language.

    3. P.H. Matthews, Morphology (Second edition): Cambridge University Press.

    Paper 5: Second Language Acquisition


    1. Muriel Saville-Troike, Introducing Second Language Acquisition. University of Arizona.

    2. Stephen D Krashen, Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning


    (1981): University of Southern California

    Paper 6: American Literature (ELL614)


    A) Poetry

    1. Edger Alan Poe A Dream Within a Drea

    Song

    2. Walt Whitman All is Truth

    I Hear America Singing


    O Captain! My Captain!

    O Me! O Life!

    3. Robert Frost The Road Not Take

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Burial

    4. Silvia Plath Morning Song

    Gabriel

    5. Maya Angelou: Still I Rise,

    Phenomenal Woman,

    I know why the caged bird sings,

    B) Plays

    1. Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie

    2. Eugene O’ Neil’s Long Day Journey into Night

    C) Novel

    1. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

    2. Toni Morrison Jazz

    Paper 7: Pakistani Literature in English (ELL 530)


    A) Essays

    1. Intizar Hussain: The Problems of Pakistani Identity

    2. Shahid Suhrwardy: The Responsibility of Writers in Pakistan

    B) Pakistani English Fiction


    1. Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice Candy Man
    2. Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
    3. Mohammad Hanif: Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
    C) Pakistani English Poetry
    1. Zulfiqar Ghose: Disturbed Nights, Evidence of Genocide
    2. Salman Tarik Kureshi: Cottage, Housewarming, End of The Climb

    D) Contemporary Pakistani English Short Stories


    1. Muneeza Shamse: That Heathen Air,
    2. Aamer Hussain: The Keeper of the Shrine
    3. Kamila Shamsie: Hasan and The Sky,

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