The Course will enable the students to critique the elements of imagism, realism and symbolism in 20th century poetry and drama - with an insight into the decaying moral values of the modern age - and develop a detailed literary and thematic understanding of 20th century prose and fiction, as well.
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
W.B. Yeats
Leda and the Swan
The Second Coming
No Second Troy
Sailing to Byzantium
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Sweeney among the Nightingales
The Hollow Men
Suggested Reference Books:
Bennett, Joan. Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist. CUP, 1945.
Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. University of Chicago Press, 1961. Daiches, David. Virginia Woolf. New Directions, 1942.
Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. Penguin, 1962.
Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and his World: Criterion Books, 1953. Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. Chatto & Windus, 1950. Matthiessen, F.D. The Achievement of T.S. Eliot. OUP, 1958.
Norman Jeffares A. Yeats’ Selected Poems. Hutchinson, 1988.
Southam, B.C. T.S. Eliot ‘Prufrock’, ‘Gerontion’, ‘Ash Wednesday’ and Other Shorter Poems
- A Case Book. Macmillan, 1978.
E-Resources including links: https://www.academia.edu/18309045/AP_Literature_Heart_of_Darkness_Journal https://www.britannica.com/art/stream-of-consciousness
Reference Journal:
Sage Publication
The students will: CO31. Examine 20th century British literature in terms of the impact of political and social milieu of the century on the poetic outputs of the age CO32. Compare and contrast the moral and literary aspects of 20th century poetry and drama and the influence of various schools of thought on the selected texts CO33. Defend and explain the literary techniques and style of 20th century literary works and be familiar with the idea of modernism in the literary works CO34. Estimate the basic elements of poetry such as diction, tone, imagery, figures of speech, symbolism and theme to apply styles and concerns of the writers. CO35. Discuss the evolution of the liberal modern literature related to the social changes of time |