Islamic University of Science and Technology M.A. (English Literature) Syllabus

[Arvind Kumar]

Syllabus for Entrance Test for M. A. English (Semester Wise)

Unit I:
 Shakespeare: Sonnets 2, 13, 18
 Milton: “On His Blindness”, On his Twenty Third Birthday”
 Blake: “London”, “The Garden of Love”
 William Wordsworth: “Lucy Gray”, “The World is Too Much with Us”


Unit II:
 Lord Alfred Tennyson: “ The Lotos-Eaters”, “Tears, Idle Tears”
 Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”, “Growing Old”
 T.S. Eliot: “Preludes”
 Robert Frost: “Mending Wall”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”


Unit III:
 A K Ramanujan: “Obituary”, “Of Mothers, Among Other Things”
 Agha Shahid Ali: “Postcard from Kashmir”, “The Wolf’s Postscript to Little Red Riding Hood”
 Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry From Africa”, “A City’s Death by Fire”
 Margaret Atwood: “Spelling”, “A Sad Child”


Unit IV:
 Francis Bacon: “Of Studies”, “Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self”
 Charles Lamb: “Dream Children: A Reverie”
 George Orwell: “Politics of the English Language”
 Stephen Hawking: “Our Picture of the Universe”


Unit V:
 O’ Henry: “The Gift of the Magi”
 Leo Tolstoy: “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
 Premchand: “The Holy Panchayat”
 Saadat Hasan Manto: “Toba Tek Singh”


Unit VI:
 G B Shaw: How He Lied to Her Husband
 J M Synge: Riders to the Sea
 Swan Chekhov: Swan Song
 J. B. Priestly: Mother’s Day


Unit VII:
 Abraham Lincoln
 Sir Mohammad Iqbal
 Mother Teresa
 Margaret Thatcher


Unit VIII:
 Shakespeare: Othello
 Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice
 Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
 Mahesh Dattani: Tara


Unit IX:
 Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
 D H Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
 E M Forster: A Passage to India
 R K Narayan: The English Teacher


Unit X:
 Elizabethan Age- Poetry and Drama
 Metaphysical Poetry
 English Romanticism
 Victorian Novel


Unit XI:
 Tenses/ Articles/ Punctuation
 Phonetic Symbols
 Agreement of Subject/ Verb
 Modals/ Use of Verb and Adjective


Unit XII:
 Epic, ballad, sonnet
 Comedy, tragedy, historical play
 Historical Novel, Picaresque, Stream of Consciousness Novel
 Simile, Image , Metaphor , Symbol, Conceit, Paradox


Unit XIII:
 Amartya Sen
 Jawaharlal Nehru
 Martin Luther King, Jr
 Ngugi wa Thiong’o


Unit XIV:
 John Hopkins: “The Starlit Night”
 W B Yeats: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, “A Prayer for my Daughter”
 W H Auden: “As I Walked Out One Evening”
 Ted Hughes: “Daffodils”, “The Seven Sorrows”

Unit XV:
 Charles Dickens: The Signal Man
 Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace
 Somerset Maugham: The Vessel of Wrath
 Akhter Mohiudin: Growth