Contemporary British Literature – I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO119. Acquire a deeper understanding of the representative writers from the 1950s onwards

CO120. Understand the experimentation in thematic and stylistic expressions in the literature of the age

CO121. Critically appreciate the cultural and literary characteristics of the period and trace the emergence of pre and post war sensibility in the chosen works

CO122. Compare and contrast the moral and literary aspects of poetry and drama of the pertaining age and analyze the influence of various schools of thought on the selected texts
CO123.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
10.00
Unit I: 

Philip Larkin                                                  

Church Going

Toads

Wants

Toads Revisited

At Grass

 

10.00
Unit II: 

Seamus Heaney                                            

Dedicatory Poem from Wintering Out

Mid-Term Break

Digging

At a Potato Digging

Follower 

 

9.00
Unit III: 

Ted Hughes                                                   

Pike

View of a Pig

Hawk Roosting

Thistles

The Thought-Fox

9.00
Unit IV: 

John Osborne                                                

Look Back in Anger

 

7.00
Unit V: 

Harold Pinter                                                 

The Caretaker

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Chatterjee, Sisir Kumar. Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges. Atlantic Publishers, 2006.

Gifford, Terry and Neil Roberts: Ted Hughes: A Critical Study. Faber & Faber, 1981.

Lidstrom, Subanna. Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and Poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. Routledge, 1985.

Scolnicov, Hanna. The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter. University of Delaware Press, 2012.

 

e-resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwLrHOZDOM8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYP0fETFA0k

 

Journals

International Journal of Literary Studies

JSTOR

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024