Contemporary British Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Examine the emergence of recent trends in contemporary British literature
  • Appraise the 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
8.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

William Golding                                                       

Lord of the Flies

8.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Doris Lessing                                                             

The Summer Before the Dark

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

A. Alvarez                       

‘Introduction’ to TheNew Poetry

 

Margaret Scanlan

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

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Angela Carter                                                            

Wise Children

9.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Martin Amis

The Little Puppy That Could

The Immortals

(from Einstein's Monsters)

 

Kazuo Ishiguro

Come Rain or Come Shine

Malvern Hills

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: 

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: 
2021-2022