Contemporary British Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain.

9.00
Unit I: 
A. Alvarez

Introduction to New Poetry

9.00
Unit II: 
William Golding

Lord of the Flies

11.00
Unit III: 
Doris Lessing

The Summer Before the Dark

6.00
Unit IV: 
Angela Carter

Wise Children

10.00
Unit V: 
Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

Source Books: 

Suggested Readings:

Bacchilega, Cristina ,et.al. ed. Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale. Wayne: WSU, 1998.Print.

Bloom, Harold.ed. Dorrid Lessing. USA: Chelsea House, 2003.Print.

Frickey, Pierrette M. ed. Critical Perspectives of Jean Rhys. Pennsylvania: Three Continents Press, 1990.Print.

Greene, Gayle. Dorris Lessing: The Poetics of Change. Michigan: UOM, 1994.Print.

Weekes, Mark Kinkead. William Golding: A Critical Study. Harcourt: Bracer, 1968.Print.

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