Contemporary British Literature

Paper Code: 
ENG 325
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Ted Hughes

Apprehensions

St. Botolph’s

Full Moon and Little Frieda

 

Seamus Heaney

Whatever you say, say nothing

Punishment

Casualty

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Philip Larkin

The Whitsun Weddings

Maiden Name

I Remember, I Remember

 

Thom Gunn

On The Move 

Autumn Chapter

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

John Fowles

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

15.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Harold Pinter

The Homecoming

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Chaterjee, Sisir. Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1999. Print.

Draper, Ronald P, ed. The Literature of Region and Nation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989. Print.  

Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Print.

Marwick, Arthur. British Society since 1945. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982. Print.

Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. London: Faber & Faber, 1994. Print.

Quigley, Austin.The Modern Stage and Other Words. London: Routledge, 2014. Print.

Scigaj, Leonard M. Critical Essays on Ted Hughes. New York : G.K. Hall, 2000. Print.

Academic Year: 
2017-2018