Twentieth Century English Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 414
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

8.00
Unit I: 

E.V. Lucas

A Funeral

On Finding Things

V.S. Pritchett

The Dean
10.00
Unit II: 
George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

Inside the Whale
7.00
Unit III: 

Somerset Maugham        The Mother

James Thurber                       The Night the Ghost Got In
Colin Howard                           Post Haste
10.00
Unit IV: 
D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

10.00
Unit V: 
Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Source Books: 
  • Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature (From James to Eliot)
  • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and his World
  • Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
  • W. Booth : Rhetoric of Fiction
  • Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  • Lawrence Brander : George Orwell (London 1904)
  • Christopher Hollis : A Study of George Orwell (London 1956)
  • Joan Bennett : Virginia Woolf –  Her Art as a Novelist (Cambridge, 1945)
  • Essays (ed.) W.E. Williams
  • G. Orwell : Inside the Whale and Other Essays
  • Short Stories of Yesterday and Today ed.by Shakti Batra and P. S. Sidhu (OUP)
  • Forms of English Prose: An Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays for B.A. Students (Dept. Of English and M.E.L., Lucknow Univ., OUP)
Academic Year: 
2018-2019