Contemporary British Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain.
 
9.00
Ted Hughes
Pike
View of a Pig
Hawk Roosting
Thistles
The Thought-Fox
11.00
John Osborne
Look Back in Anger
10.00
William Golding
Lord of the Flies 
 
10.00
Doris Lessing
The Summer Before the Dark
 
5.00
Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts : Ted Hughes : A Critical Study (1981)
  2. Keith Sagar, ed. : The Achievement of Ted Hughes (Manchester, 1983)
  3. Norman Page, ed. : William Golding : Novels 1954-67 (London, 1985)
  4. Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and Poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes by Subanna Lidstrom
 
Academic Year: 
2016-2017