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MA Syllabus, Department of English, Islamic University

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Syllabus for MASession 2010-2011, Department of EnglishIslamic University Kushtia 


Course 1:  Shakespeare 
Course 2:   Modern Poetry and Drama
Course 3:   Modern Fiction
Course 4:  American Poetry and Drama 
Course 5:   American Fiction and Non-fiction
Course 6:   Continental Literature
Course 7:  Culture and Media Studies 

Course 1:  Shakespeare
  1. Julius Caesar
  2. Hamlet
  3.  King Lear
  4.  Macbeth
  5.  Othello
  6.  Measure for Measure
  7.  The Tempest
  8.  Twelfth Night 


Course 2:   Modern Poetry and Drama
W B Yeats    : Selected Poems
T S Eliot        : The Wasteland, Four Quarter Canto 1
W H Auden :  Selected Poems
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Course 3:   Modern Fiction
Josef Conrad                      : Heart of Darkness
EM Forster                          : A passage to India
D H Lawrence                     : Sons and Loves
James Joyce                       :  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Course 4:  American Poetry and Drama 
Walt Whitman                    : Song of Myself
Robert Frost                       : Selected Poems
Eugene O’Neill                   : The Hairy Ape
Arthur Miller                       : Death of a Salesman

Course 5:   American Fiction and Non-fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne      : The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville                :  Moby Dick
Ernest Hemingway           : The Old Man and the Sea
William Faulkner                :  A Rose for Emily
Ralph Waldo Emerson    : Nature

Course 6:   Continental Literature
            Baudelaire               : Selected Poems
            Leo Tolstoy             : Anna Karenina
            H Ibsen                     : A doll’s House
B Brecht                   : Mother Courage and Her Children  
Albert Camus          : The Outsider
F Kafka                      : Metamorphosis

Course 7:  Culture and Media Studies 


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