Reading Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 602
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To enable 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: 
S. Radhakrishnan                  Democracy
Jim Corbett                              A Shot in the Dark
W. H. Hudson                          The Samphire Gatherer
9.00
Unit II: 
Rabindranath Tagore             Co-operation
Jawaharlal Nehru                    Testament
9.00
Unit III: 
Kartar Singh Duggal               Miracle
Manohar Malgonkar                Two Red Roosters 
Rudyard Kipling                       Rikki – Tikki – Tavi 
9.00
Unit IV: 
Premchand                               The Child
Bhishma Sahni                        The Boss Came to Dinner
Prabhat K. Mukhopadhyay     The Muscular Son-in-Law
9.00
Unit V: 
Rama Mehta

Inside the Haveli

Source Books: 
  1. A Choice of Short Stories, OUP,2006 (Edited by Shakti Batra and P.S. Sidhu)
  2. A Choice of Prose, OUP – D. Chatterjee, S. K. Prasad
  3. English Prose Selection (OUP)
  4. Three Plays by Girish Karnad
  5. Language Through Literature (OUP)
Academic Year: 
2018-2019