Masters in English Literature for National University of Bangladesh

Bangladesh National University Syllabus: MA (Final)

English
From session: 2016-2017

Course Description:

Subject Code	Course Title	Unit	Marks
1151	Chaucer and Shakespeare	1.0	100
1152	Modern Poetry	1.0	100
1153	Modern Drama	1.0	100
1154	Modern Novel and Prose	1.0	100
1180	Term paper	0.5	50
1190	Viva	0.5	50

Detailed Syllabus:



Subject Code-1151: Chaucer and Shakespeare

1.Chaucer-
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,
The Nuns Priests Tale,
Troilus and Cresyde

2.Shakespeare-
Hamlet,
Othello,
king lear,
Tempest,
Measure for Measure

Books Recommended:

1 W.P. Kerr, Medieval English Literature
2 N.G. Coghill, The Poet Chaucer
3 C.S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love
4 M. Bowden, A Commentary on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales


Subject Code-1152: Modern Poetry

1 Whitman-Song of Myself
2 W.B. Yeats- Selected Poems (ed.NormanJeffer excluding the pieces included in the First year Honours Course)
3 Robert Frost-Poems (as in Norton-excluding Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening)
4 W.H. Auden-Poems (as in Norton)
5. Dylan Thomas-Poems (as in Norton excluding Fern Hill)
6. Heany Seamus-Poems (as in Norton)

Books Recommended:
1 G.W. Cunliffe, English Literature during the Last Half of a Century
2 C.M. Bowra,The Heritage of Symbolism
3 V.De Sola Pinto, Crisis in Modern Poetry
4 D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
5 Geofrey Dutton, Walt Whitman
6 Phillip L. Gerber, Robert Frost



Subject Code-1153: Modern Drama

1 Synge-Riders to the Sea
2 G.B.Shaw-Man and Superman
3 O NeilDesireUnder the Elms
4 Samuel Becket-Waiting for Godot
5 A. Miller-Death of a Salesman
6 Osborne-Look Back in Anger

Books Recommended:
1 H.Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
2 Murcus Cunlife, Literature of the United States
3 Jean Gould, Modern American Playwrights
4 H.W. Hubel, Who are the Major American Writers?
5 Doris B. Folk, Eugene O Neil and the Tragic Vision
6 G.W. Cunliffe, English Literature during the Last Half of a Century



Subject Code-1154(A):Modern Novel and Prose
1 E.Hemingway-A Farewell to Arms
2 W. Golding-Lord of the Flies
3 N.Hawthorne-The Scarlet Letter
4 Aldous Huxley-Brave New World
5 J. Paul Sartre-Nausea

Prose:
1 F.R. Leavis-Literature and Society
2 Virginia Woolf-Shakespeare’s Sister

Books Recommended:
1 G.W.Cunliffe, English Literature during the Last Half a Century
2 Dmund Wilson, Axel’s Castle
3 Hallbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties
4 Perry Lubbock, The Craft of the Fiction