Contemporary British Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Trace the emergence of recent trends in contemporary British literature
  • Be familiar with contemporary British prose and fiction; their salient features, literary movements and trends
  • Examine the works of the representative writers in terms of their style and treatment

 

William Golding                                                         

Lord of the Flies

Doris Lessing                                                                

The Summer Before the Dark

A. Alvarez                        

‘Introduction’to TheNew Poetry

 

Margaret Scanlan

‘Introduction’ to Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction

Angela Carter                                                               

Wise Children

Martin Amis

The Little Puppy That Could

The Immortals

(from Einstein's Monsters)

 

Kazuo Ishiguro

Come Rain or Come Shine

Malvern Hills

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Alvarez, A.TheNew Poetry. Penguin, 1962.

Scanlan, Margaret.Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction. Princeton UP, 1990.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

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

Bloom, Harold.ed. Dorrid Lessing. Chelsea House, 2003.

Greene, Gayle. Dorris Lessing: The Poetics of Change. University of Michigan Press, 1994.

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

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021