Important Qestions for MA English Literature

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1. LITERATURE IN GENERAL

 1. Art for Art's Sake
2. Art and Morality
3. English Literature in the 18th Century
4. English Literature in the 19th Century
5. Trends in the 20th Century Literature
6. Classicism and Romanticism
7. Influence of Renaissance on English Literature
8. Teaching of English Literature in Pakistan

 2. POETRY

9. Romanticism in English Poetry
10. Spenser as 'The Poets' Poet'
11. Milton's Grand Style
12. Milton as an Epic Poet
13. Wordsworth as a Poet of Nature
14. Keats' Famous Odes
15. Emily Dickinson as a Love Poetess
16. The Waste Land --- The Greatest Poem of the 20th Century

3. DRAMA

17. Greek Tragedy
18.  Drama During the Elizabethan Period
19. The Theatre of the Absurd
20. Modern Drama
21. Shakespearean Tragedy
22. Shakespeare's Major Comedies
23. O'Neil's Tragic Vision
24. A. Miller's Tragic Vision
4. NOVEL

25. Novel as an Art Form
26. 18th Century Novel
27.  Victorian Novel
28. The Stream of Consciousness Novel
29. Tragic Vision in Hardy's Novels
30. George Eliot as the First Modern Novelist
31. Psychological Realism in Dickens' Novels
32. Jane Austen's Limited Range
5. MISCELLANEOUS (Prose, Criticism, Short Stories, Linguistics)

33. Bacon as an Essayist
34. Russell as a Philosopher
35. Criticism and Creation
36. A Critic is a Parasite
37. Aristotle's Poetics
38. T.S. Eliot as a Critic
39. Short Story as a Literary Genre
40. English as an International Language

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