SYLLABUS FOR BS ENGLISH GCU FAISALABAD

1. Poetry
Classical Poetry
1. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Prioress, Monk, Friar,
Parson, Clerk, Knight, Squire, The Wife of Bath, Merchant, Miller,
Summoner)
2. John Donne: Good Morrow, The Sun Rising, Go and Catch a Falling Star, Death
be not Proud, Batter My Heart, Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning
3. John Milton: Paradise Lost Book 1 (Complete), Book 9 (Temptation Scenes)
4. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Romantic Poetry
1. Blake: Songs of Innocence (Auguries of Innocence, The Lamb, The Divine Image)
Songs of Experience (The Tyger, London, A Divine Image)
2. Wordsworth: Ode on Intimation of Immortality, The Lucy Poems
3. Byron: She Walks in Beauty, By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept
4. Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, Ode on
Melancholy, Ode to Psyche
5. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
6. Browning: The Last Ride Together, Fra Lippo Lipp
Modern Poetry
1. T. S. Eliot: The Wasteland
2. W. B. Yeats: Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Easter 1916
3. Philip Larkin: Mr. Bleany, Church Going
4. Seamus Heaney: The Tollund Man, A Constable Calls, Personal Helicon
5. Ted Hughes: Thought Fox, That Morning, Jagua
2. Drama
Greek and Elizabethan Drama
1. Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
2. Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
3. William Shakespeare: Hamlet
Modern Drama
1. Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
2. G B Shaw: Arms and the Man
3. Sean O’ Casey: Juno and the Paycock
Theatre of Absurd
1. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
2. Harold Pinter: The Caretaker
3. Eugene Ionesco: The Rhinoceros

3. Prose
1. Bacon Essays (Five Essays: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Simulation and Dissimulation,
Of Ambition, Of Great Place)
2.Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
3.Russell: The Conquest of Happiness

4. Novel
1. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews
2. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
3. George Eliot: The Mill on the Flos
Victorian Novel
1. Charles Dickens: Hard Times
2. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
3. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Modern Novel
1. James Joyce: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
2. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
3. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

5. Short Story
1. E. Allen Poe: The Man of the Crowd
2. O Henry: Hearts and Hands
3. Flannery O’Connor: Everything that Rises Must Converge
4. Nadine Gordimer: Ultimate Safari
5. Ben Okri: What the Tapster Saw
6. Hanif Qureishi: My Son the Fanatic
7. D.H. Lawrence: The Man who Loved Islands
8. Alice Walker: Strong Horse Tea
9. Kate Chopin: A Pair of Silk Stocking
10. Charlotte Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
11. Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party
12. Somerset Maugham: A Woman of Fifty
13. Maupassant: The Necklace

6. American Literature
1. Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
2. Eugene O’ Neil: Long Day’s Journey into Night
3. Earnest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Poetry:
1. Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass—Song of Myself (Lines 1-139), O Captain, My Captain!
2. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken, After Apple Picking, Mending Walls, Design,
Stopping by Woods
3. John Ashbery: Melodic Train, Painter
4. Sylvia Plath: Bee Poems
5. Sherman Alexie: Why We Play Basket Ball, Sasquatch Poems
Novel
1. Tony Morrison: Beloved
2. William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

7. Pakistani Literature
Novel and Prose
1. Ahmed Ali: Twilight in Delhi
2. Manto: Toba Tek Singh
3. Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India
4. Sara Suleri: Meatless Days (Papa and Pakistan, Excellent Things in Women)
Poetry
1. Ghalib: Aah ko chahiay ik Umr, Bazicha-e- Atfaal hy Dunya
2. Iqbal: Shikwa (Stanza 01 to 05), Jawab-e- Shikwa (Stanza 25 to 35) translated by K Singh
3. Taufiq Rafat: (Arrival of Monsoon, 1985, Vanguard) i) Kitchens ii) A Touch of Winter

8. Pakistani Literature in English

Novels
1. Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2. Shazaf Fatima Haider: How It Happened
Short Stories:
1. Aamir Hussein: Sweet Rice
2. Danyal Moeenuddin: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Our Lady of Paris
3. Intezar Hussein: An Unwritten Epic
Poetry
1. Faiz: Subh-e-Azadi, Bol, Mujh say pehli si
2. Habib Jalib: Zulmatko zia, Aisay dastoor ko main nahi manta
3. Daud Kamal: Rebel, Anniversary, Kingfisher
4. Aalamgir Hashmi: Eid, A Topic, Pakistan Movemen
9. Russian Literature
Novel and Short Story
1. Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Russian Short Stories
1. Leo Tolstoy: How Much Land Does a Man Need?, God Sees the Truth but Waits
2. Nikolai Gogol: The Overcoat, The Nose

10. Literature of War

Novel
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Poems
1. Wilfred Owen
2. Anthem for Doomed Youth
3. Futility
4. Strange Meeting
5. Najat Abdul Samad (Poem, Translated by Ghada Alatrash)
6. When I am Overcome by Weakness
7. Youssef Bou Yihea (Translated by Ghada Alatrash)
8. I am a Syrian
Short Stories
Tim O’ Brien: The Things They Carried, On the Rainy River,
War Diary
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

11. Women Writing

Western Literary and Intellectual Tradition
• Mary Wollstonecraft: The Vindication of the Rights of Women, Chapter 1 and 3
• Virginia Woolf: Last chapter from A Room of One’s Own
• Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
Women Writings from Non-Western Tradition
• Farugh Furrakhzad: Call to Arms, Border Walls
• Fatima Mernissi: Women, Saints and Sanctuaries
Pakistani Feminist Discourse
• Sara Suleri: Boys will be Boys, A Daughter’s Elegy, Penguin, 2002
• Bina Shah Towards A Pakistani Feminist Discourse in Rethinking Pakistan in 21 st Century

12. World Literature

Poetry
1. Pablo Neruda (Spanish): Amor America from Canto (I), You Will Struggle from (Canto XIII)
2. Bulleh Shah (Punjabi): Ik Nuqtay Wich Gul Mukdi, Ranjha Ranja Kardi, Kar Kuttan Wal
Dhiyan Kuray,
3. Jalaluddin Rumi (Persian): New Rule, A Stone I Died,
4. Nazim Hikmat Yar (Turkish): I Love you, I Think of You, The Miniature Woman
Fiction
1. Albert Camus The Outsider
2. Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis

13. Postcolonial Literature

Fiction
1. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: Devil on the Cross
2. E.M. Foster: A Passage to India
3. Paul Scott: Jewel in the Crown
4. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Poetry
Derek Walcott: A Far Cry from Africa (1962)
Drama
Wole Soyinka: A Dance of the Forests (1963
14. Functional English

1. Formal/Informal Introduction
2. Parts of Speech (Basics of English Grammar)
3. Phrases & its Types (Infinitive, Prepositional, Gerund, Noun phrase, Verb Phrase)
4. Clauses: Subject, Verb, Direct/Indirect Object, Object Complement, Subject Complement,
Dependent and Independent Clauses
5. Sentence Structure: Simple, Compound, Compound Complex Sentences
6. Kinds of Sentences: Exclamatory, Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative Sentences
7. Use of Active/Passive Voice and Direct/Indirect Narration
8. English Expression: Manners & Greetings (Greeting Etiquettes, Gratitude,
9. Request, Command, Agreement/Disagreement, Time Checking)

15. Literary Studies

1. Defining Literature: Major Genres in Literature
2. Prose
3. Poetry
Major Genres of Poetry: Narrative and Lyric Poetry (including sub-genres)
1. Lexical-thematic dimension: Looking at words, simile and metaphor, conceit,
personification, symbols, image and imagery, paradox, oxymoron, ambiguity, allusion,
Apostrophe, Anaphora, Metonymy & Synecdoche, Epigram, Enjambment, Epithet ,
Hyperbole, Anti-thesis.
2. Rhythmic-acoustic dimension: Meter and variations in meter, scansion, rhyme
and rhyme schemes, Stanza forms, end stopped and run on lines, rhythm. Alliteration,
Consonance, Assonance, onomatopoeia, Caesura, Cadence
3. Studying the poem as a whole
Drama
1. Major Genres of Drama
2. Conventions/Literary Devices of Drama
3. Character and Plot
4. Language of Drama
Fiction
1. Major Forms of Fiction
2. Narration and Point of view
3. Plot, Characters, Story, Themes and Setting
 4. Theoretical Approaches to Literature
5. Interpretation of Literature
Literary Essays
1. What is Literature?
2. Literature and Society
3. Classicism
4. Romanticism
5. Art for Art’s Sake and Art for Life’s Sake
6. Renaissance Literature
7. Shakespearean Tragedy
8. Rise of Novel
9. Satire in the Age of Reason
10. Epic
11. Romantic Poetry
12. Victorian Novel
13. Modern Drama
14. Modern Novel
15. Modern Poetry
16. Theatre of the Absurd
17. Schools of Criticism
18. English Essa
19. Short Story
20. Pakistani Literature in English

16. Linguistics
1. What is language? (Definition and Characteristics of Language)
2. What is Linguistics? (Langue and Parole, Competence and Performance Diachronic/
Synchronic; Paradigmatic/ Syntagmatic Relations)
3. Schools of Linguistics (Structuralism, Generativism, Functionalism)
4. Basic concepts of Socio-linguistics (Varieties of Language e.g. Dialect, Register, Pidgin, Creole)
An Introduction to Major Branches of Linguistics:
1. Phonetics
2. Phonology
3. Morphology
4. Syntax
5. Semantic

17 Stylistics
1. Introduction
2. What is Stylistics?
3. The Nature of Stylistics
4. The Goals of Stylistics
5. Stylistic Approaches to Literature
6. Literature as Text
7. Literature as Discourse
8. Literature as Communication
9. Foregrounding
10. Meaning of Foregrounding
11. Types of Foregrounding
12. Theoretical Positions in Stylistics
13. Formal Stylistics
14. Affective Stylistics
15. Pragmatic Stylistics
16. Pedagogical Stylistics
17. Feminist Stylistics
18. Stylistic Analysis: Practical Application
19. Sample Stylistic Analysis of a Poem
20. Sample Stylistic Analysis of a Short Story
18 Literary Criticism
1. Aristotle: Poetics (Imitation, Concept of Tragedy, Plot, Character, Catharsis)
2. Philip Sydney: The Defense of Poesy, T. Nelson, 1965
3. W. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads
4. S. T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria, Coleridge’s Views on Wordsworth’s Poetic Diction,
On Fancy and Imagination
5. Mathew Arnold: Cultural and Anarchy, (Introduction, Barbarian, Philistines, Populace),
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
6. T S Eliot: The Critic (Tradition and Individual Talent, The Metaphysical Poetry)
7. Raymond Williams: Modern Tragedy (Tragedy and Tradition, Tragedy and
Contemporary Experience).A. Richards: Practical Criticism

19. Literary Theory

1. Liberal Humanism
2. New and Practical Criticism
3. Russian Formalism
4. Structuralism
5. Semiotics
6. Poststructuralism/ Deconstruction
7. Reader Response Theory
8. Marxism
9. Postmodernism
10. Feminism
11. New Historicism
12. Psychoanalysis
13. Ecocriticism

20. Postcolonial Studies

1. Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
2. Introduction from The Empire Writes Back: Four Models of Postcolonial Writing
Key Theorists
1. Frantz Fanon: On National Consciousness
2. Edward Said: Orientalism (Introduction)
3. Homi K. Bhabha: Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry, Cultural Diversity and
Cultural Difference, Third Space (From Key Concepts)
Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak? Postcolonial Feminism
Key Terms
1. Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Neocolonialism, Imperialism, Globalization
2. Abrogation, Appropriation, Alterity, Syncretism, Decolonization, Subject