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Contemporary British Literature – II (Prose and Fiction)
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The students will: CO144. Analyze the recent trends in contemporary British literature CO145.Develop an insight into contemporary British prose and fiction; their salient features, literary movements and trends CO146.Critique the works of the representative writers in terms of their style and treatment CO147.Appraise the emergence and growth of the Contemporary British Literature and the unique characteristics of the texts and the authors CO148.Chart out the complex and interconnecting intellectual currents of the canonical sage-writing, exploring social reportage and scientific treatises
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William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Doris Lessing
The Summer Before the Dark
A. Alvarez
‘Introduction’ to The New 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
Alvarez, A.TheNew Poetry. Penguin, 1962.
Scanlan, Margaret.Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction. Princeton UP, 1990.
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.
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