Course Tittle: Modern Literature

Course Code: ENG 708            MPhil, Semester II

Credit Hours: 03                        Wed & Thursday 1.30 – 3 p.m.

Instructor: ZAREENA QASIM

Email: [email protected]

The essence of this course is critical reading, writing, and discussion of selected modern novels, poems, essays and plays.. We will examine the texts from multiple viewpoints, examining the works not only for themes, narratives, and style, but also through application of a variety of critical theories. The texts are multicultural and may contain mature themes and images.

 Course Goals:

 The primary goals of the course are to have students study the literature by reading all the required texts, discussing the texts in depth during class, and writing critical responses. An additional goal is for students to work cooperatively in small groups to research and report on one aspect of a book to bring greater textual understanding to the entire class. A final goal is to have students apply critical literary theory while working toward an understanding of the text

Course Contents

Modern Poetry:

1. T.S.Eliot  ( Selected poems)                                                2.W. H. Auden   ( Selected poems)  

3.Stephen Spender  ( Selected poems)                                    4. Philip Larkin   ( Selected poems)  

Modern Fiction

1. James Joyce:                        Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

2. D. H Lawrence:                  Women in Love

3. Joseph Conrad:                   Lord Jim & Heart of Darkness

4. E.M.Forster:                        A Passage to India & Howard’s End

Modern Drama

1. Henrik Ibsen:                      The Wild Duck

2.T.S.Eliot:                              Murder in the Cathedral &The Cocktail Party

3. John Osborne:                     Look Back in Anger

Prose

1. Bertrand Russell                 Skeptical Essays

2. Aldous Huxley                    Adonis and the Alphabet

3. E.M.Forster                         What I Believe

4. George Orwell                    Politics and the English Languag

Course Material:

Course Manual will consist of approximately 32 lessons (see “Course Outline” above to get an idea about the contents of these lessons). It will be provided to participants in PDF and MS Word formats. They can take printout and .read the material.

Projects

Students of MPhil during their course work need to learn to analyze literary works and their contexts and developing as critical thinkers and writers. Course activities promote active learning, with most class sessions including a mix of mini-lectures, discussion, short writing exercises, and group work. They will be provided tools and resources to advance their own thinking and writing. They need to have a pressure to do the hard work—the critical reading, discussion, and writing. They will be involved in interpreting texts, generate ideas in electronic and face-to-face discussions, develop presentations with peers, construct written arguments, and use feedback to revise those arguments.They  will be encouraged to findand watch cinematic adaptations of the literary works so that they may compare different forms of art based on the same idea.

Assessment 

Mid Term : 30

Project:  10

Presentation:  05

Participation:  05

Final exam: 50