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Masters English Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a one-year master's course in English effective from the 2013-2014 session. It includes 12 papers covering topics such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, modern poetry, drama, novels, prose, and South Asian and African literature. Each paper is worth 4 credits except for the term paper and viva-voce, which are worth 2 credits each. The total credits for completing the course is 32. Detailed reading lists are provided for each paper.

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Masters English Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a one-year master's course in English effective from the 2013-2014 session. It includes 12 papers covering topics such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, modern poetry, drama, novels, prose, and South Asian and African literature. Each paper is worth 4 credits except for the term paper and viva-voce, which are worth 2 credits each. The total credits for completing the course is 32. Detailed reading lists are provided for each paper.

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Syllabus
Department of English

One-Year Master’s Course


Effective from the Session: 2013-2014

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National University
Subject: English
Syllabus for One-Year Master’s Course
Effective from the Session: 2013-2014

Paper Code Paper Title Credits


311101 Chaucer 4
311103 W. Shakespeare 4
311105 Modern Poetry 4
311107 Modern Drama 4
311109 Modern Novel 4
311111 Prose 4
311113 South Asian and African Literature 4
311114 Term Paper 2
311116 Viva-Voce 2
Total = 32

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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

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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

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