Contemporary British Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
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
Seamus Heaney
Dedicatory Poem form Wintering Out 
Mid-Term Break
Digging
At a Potato Digging 
Follower  
9.00
Philip Larkin
Church Going
Toads
Wants
Toads Revisited
At Grass
11.00
Harold Pinter
The Caretaker
6.00
A. Alvarez
Introduction to New Poetry (Penguin,1962)
 
10.00
Angela Carter
Wise Children
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Blake Morrison : Seamus Heaney (London, 1982)
  2. Andrew Motion : Philip Larkin (London, 1982)
  3. The Literature of Region and Nation ed. by R P Draper (St. Martin’s Press)
  4. Critical Essays on Ted Hughes ed. by Leonard M Scigaj (NY: G. K. Hall & Co.)
  5. A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama by Stephen Unwin
  6. Philip Larkin ; Poetry That Builds Bridges S. Kumar Chattterjee.2006
 
Academic Year: 
2016-2017