Contemporary British Literature

Paper Code: 
ENG 325
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
12.00
UNIT I: 
 

 

Ted Hughes 
Apprehensions
St. Botolph’s,
Full Moon and Little Frieda
 
Seamus Heaney 
Whatever you say, say nothing
Punishment
Casualty

 

12.00
UNIT II: 
 

 

Philip Larkin 
The Whitsun Weddings
Maiden Name
I Remember, I Remember
 
Thom Gunn
On the Move  
Autumn Chapter
 

 

15.00
UNIT III: 
John Fowles

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

 

11.00
UNIT IV: 
Harold Pinter

The Homecoming

 

UNIT V: 
Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

 

Source Books: 
SOURCE BOOKS: 

 

  • Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982)
  • Ronald Harman : Harold Pinter (1968)
  • Andrew Motion : Philip Larkin
  • Boris Ford (Ed.) : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature
  • Martin Esslin : Theatre of the Absurd
  • The Literature of Region and Nation ed. by R P Draper (St. Martin’s Press) 
  • Critical Essays on Ted Hughes ed. by Leonard M. Scigaj (NY: G. K. Hall & Co.)
  • The Modern Stage and Other Worlds by Austin Quigley (Methuen)
  • Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges by Sisir K. Chatterjee (Atlantic)

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016