Contemporary British Literature

Paper Code: 
ENG 325
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
12.00
Ted Hughes 
Apprehensions
St. Botolph’s
Full Moon and Little Frieda
 
Seamus Heaney
Whatever you say, say nothing
Punishment
Casualty
12.00
Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings
Maiden Name
I Remember, I Remember
 
Thom Gunn
On The Move  
Autumn Chapter
11.00
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
15.00
Harold Pinter
The Homecoming
10.00
Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982)
  2. Ronald Harman : Harold Pinter (1968)
  3. Andrew Motion : Philip Larkin
  4. Boris Ford (Ed.) : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature
  5. Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd
  6. The Literature of Region and Nation ed. by R P Draper (St. Martin’s Press) 
  7. Critical Essays on Ted Hughes ed. by Leonard M. Scigaj (NY:G.K.Hall ..)
  8. The Modern Stage and Other Worlds by Austin Quigley (Methuen)
  9. Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges by Sisir K. Chatterjee (Atlantic)