Contemporary British Literature-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
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

Seamus Heaney

Dedicatory Poem form Wintering Out

Mid-Term Break

Digging

At a Potato Digging

Follower 

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Philip Larkin   

Church Going

Toads

Wants

Toads Revisited

At Grass

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Harold Pinter   

The Caretaker

6.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

A. Alvarez 

Introduction to New Poetry (Penguin,1962)

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Angela Carter    

Wise Children

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Blake Morrison : Seamus Heaney (London, 1982)
  • Andrew Motion : Philip Larkin (London, 1982)
  • 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.)
  • A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama by Stephen Unwin
  • Philip Larkin ; Poetry That Builds Bridges S. Kumar Chattterjee.2006
Academic Year: 
2014-2015