Contemporary British Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain.

9.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Ted Hughes

Pike

View of a Pig

Hawk Roosting

Thistles

The Thought-Fox

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

John Osborne    

Look Back in Anger

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

William Golding     

Lord of the Flies

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Doris Lessing

The Summer Before the Dark

5.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Graham Greene

The End of the Affair

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts : Ted Hughes : A Critical Study (1981)
  • Keith Sagar, ed. : The Achievement of Ted Hughes (Manchester, 1983)
  • Norman Page, ed. : William Golding : Novels 1954-67 (London, 1985)
  • Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and Poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes by Subanna Lidstrom
Academic Year: 
2014-2015