National University MA english syllabus

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Syllabus Department of English

One Year MA (Final) Course Effective from the Session: 2013-2014

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National University Subject: English Syllabus for One-Year MA (Final) Course Effective from the Session: 2013-2014

Paper Code 311101 311103 311105 311107 311109 311111 311113 311114

Paper Title Chaucer W. Shakespeare Modern Poetry Modern Drama Modern Novel Prose South Asian and African Literature Viva-Voce Total =

Credits 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 32

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Detailed Syllabus

Paper Code : 311101 Paper Title :

-----Chaucer

Credits : 4

Class Hours : 120 hrs.

: ‘The General Prologue’ to The Canterbury Tales, ‘The Nuns Priests Tale’, Troilus and Cresyde

Paper Code : 311103 Paper Title :

-----W. Shakespeare

Credits : 4

Class Hours : 120 hrs.

: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Tempest, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar

Paper Code : 311105 Paper Title :

-----Modern Poetry

Credits : 4

Class Hours : 120 hrs.

1. W. Whitman 2. W. B. Yeats

: ‘Song of Myself’ : 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 5. Dylan Thomas

: Poems ( as in Norton Anthology) : Poems ( as in Norton Anthology excluding `Fern Hill’) : Poems ( as in Norton)

6. Seamus Heany

Paper Code : 311107 Paper Title : 1. G.B. Shaw 2. Eugene O’ Neil 3. A. Miller 4. Tennessee William

-----Modern Drama

Credits : 4

Class Hours : 120 hrs.

: You Never Can Tell : Desire Under the Elms : Death of a Salesman : The Glass Menagerie

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Paper Code : 311109 Paper Title : 1.

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E. Hemingway W. Golding N. Hawthorne Aldous Huxley J. Paul Sartre

Paper Code : 311111 Paper Title :

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-----Modern Novel

-----Prose

Credits : 4

Class Hours : 120 hrs.

: ‘The American Scholar’ : ‘Civil Disobedience’ : ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’ : ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ : ‘Literature and Society’

-----Credits : 4 South Asian and African Literature

S. Waliullah Arundhati Roy Kazi Nazrul Islam

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Chinua Achebe Ngugi wa Thiong`o

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Paper Code : 311114 Paper Title :

Class Hours : 120 hrs.

: The Old Man and the Sea : Lord of the Flies : The Scarlet Letter : Brave New World : Nausea

W. Emerson H. D. Thoreau Virginia Woolf T.S. Eliot F.R. Leavis

Paper Code : 311113 Paper Title :

Credits : 4

-----Viva-Voce

Class Hours : 120 hrs.

Tree Without Roots The God of Small Things “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.

Things Fall Apart Petals of Blood

Credits : 4

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