Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 402
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To enable the students to comprehend and appreciate a variety of prose and fictional works as avenues of creativity
  2. To enable them to learn the fundamentals of fiction & short stories, viz. structure, dialogue, mood, setting, scenes, language, etc.
9.00
Unit I: 
H. Belloc                           On an Educational Reform
Aldous Huxley                         Pleasures
Gilbert Highet                     Wonders are Many
9.00
Unit II: 
J. B. Priestley                           In Crimson Silk
Ernest Hemingway                         Old Man at the Bridge
7.00
Unit III: 
Alan Sillitoe                              On Sturday Afternoon
Kewlian Sio                                Let's Go Home
Joyce Cary                                 Growing Up
7.00
Unit IV: 
Maxim Gorky                                  the Mother of a Traitor
Liam O' Flaherty                               The Reaping Race
 
13.00
Unit V: 
George Orwell

Animal Farm

Source Books: 
  1. Spectrum –An Anthology of Short Stories Edited by J. Sasikumar, Paul Gunashekar (Orient Longman)
  2. The Art of the Essayist (ed. C. H. Lockitt)
  3. A Choice of Short Stories OUP, 2006 (Ed. By Shakti Batra & P.S. Sidhu)
  4. Short Stories of Yesterday and Today ed. by Shiv K. Kumar (OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Anatomy of Prose by M. Boulton (OUP)
  2. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students by L. G. Alexander
  3. Dictionary of Allusions (OUP)
Academic Year: 
2018-2019