MA English Syllabus Part 1
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)
1. Chaucer The Prologue
2. Milton Paradise Lost Books I & IX
3. Donne Love/Divine Poems
4. Pope The Rape of the Lock.
5. 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
6. 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)
1. Sophocles Oedipus Rex
2. Marlowe Dr. Faustus
3. Shakespeare Othello
The Winter’s Tale
4. Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Paper III: (Novel)
1. Trollope Barchester Towers
2. Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
3. G. Eliot Adam Bede
4. Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
5. Hardy The Return of the Native
Paper IV: (Prose)
1. 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
2. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
3. Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays
4. Edward Said Only the introduction to the book entitled “Culture and Imperialism”
5. Seamus Heaney Only the essay “The Redress of Poetry” from the book entitled The Redress of Poetry.
Paper V: (American Literature)
Poetry
1. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Final Notation
Gabriel
2. Sylvia Plath Ariel
Morning Song
Poppies in October
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
3. Richard Wilbur Still Citizen Sparrow
After the last Bulletin
Marginalia
4. John Ashbury Melodic Train
Painter
Drama
1. O’Neil Mourning becomes Electra (only the First of the Trilogy which is titled ‘The Home Coming’ is included in the M.A. Syllabus)
2. Miller The Crucible
Novel
1. Ernest Hemingway For whom the Bell Tolls
2. Toni Morrison Jazz
Note: The very structure of teaching. Unlike most of our teachers, American teachers never told the same thing that you can read in the book (really, what’s the point?). Moreover, on my program couples were conducted exclusively as seminars, there were no lectures at all. On pairs, we analyzed the material read, discussed it and applied it “in practice” in case studies (for this it was important to read those huge texts that were given by the homework). This opportunity is immense – the student can choose not only the pairs themselves, but also the teacher who will lead these pairs. After the first pair, if for some reasondo not like the teacher or the course, you can easily abandon it and take another. Teachers always distribute syllabus (analogue of our “curriculum” or “manuals”) on the first pair, where you can see what topics will be revealed, what literature will have to be read, what evaluation requirements, what homework will be, etc. Usually syllabus can also be asked from the teacher before the beginning of studies, when you are still planning what pairs to take in the next semester. As a result – a minimum of uninteresting or useless pairs. American education is very expensive. How does this affect the quality of education, you ask. It also affects how, because most Americans will think ten times before going to study in a specialty that is uninteresting to them or not needed, getting into debt (the majority gets education through a loan that will have to be paid almost all their lives) or by spending parental saving.