Course Contents

ENGLISH 1. Short Stories 1.1. A rose for Emily (William Faulkner) 1.2. Mss Brill ( Katherine Mansfield) 2. Poetry 2.1. Edge (Sylvia Plath) 2.2. Mushrooms (Sylvia Plath) 2.3. Women’s Work (Maya Angelou) 2.4. The Ruined Maid (Thomas Hardy) 2.5. My Last Duchess (Robert Browing) 3. Play 3.1. “A Dolls House” – Act Three (Katherine Musfield) 4. Essay 4.1. “Towards a Feminist Poetics” (Elaine Showalter) 5. Novel 5.1. “Mrs. Dalloway” (Virginia Wolf) Punjabi 6. Punjabi Literature 6.1. Sufism in Punjabi literature 6.2. Poetry in Punjabi literature 6.3. Waris Shah 6.4. Bulhay Shah 6.5. Farkhanda Lodhi 6.6. Munir Niazi URDU 7. Urdu literature and women 8. Drama 8.1. Hajra Sarwar 8.2. Ashfaq Ahmed 9. Safarnama 9.1. Mutunsar Hussain Tarar, 9.2. Bushra Rehman, 9.3. Begum Akhtar Riaz ud Din 10. Poetry 10.1. Parveen Shakir, 10.2. Kishwar Naheed, 10.3. Fehmida Riaz, 10.4. Faiz Ahmed Faiz, 10.5. Wasi Shah 11. Afsany 11.1. Manto, 11.2. Amrita Pritum, 11.3. Zahida Hina, 11.4. Asmat Chughtai 12. Novels 12.1. Umera Ahmed, 12.2. Deputy Nazir Ahmed, 12.3. Bano Qudsia, 12.4. Razia Butt, 12.5. Qurat ul Ain Haider

Course Synopsis

• To highlight the importance of literature and portrayal of gender in different languages. • To identify the work of women writers and their context and compare with male writers.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will able to understand the importance of literature. They can able to differentiate among different male and female writers and their perspectives in different languages.