Contemporary British Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain
8.00
Unit I: 

William Golding                                                         

Lord of the Flies

8.00
Unit II: 

Doris Lessing                                                                

The Summer Before the Dark

11.00
Unit III: 

A. Alvarez                                                       

‘Introduction’ to The New Poetry

 

Margaret Scanlan

‘Introduction’ to Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction

9.00
Unit IV: 

Angela Carter                                                               

Wise Children

9.00
Unit V: 

Martin Amis

The Little Puppy That Could

The Immortals

(from Einstein's Monsters)

 

Kazuo Ishiguro

Come Rain or Come Shine

Malvern Hills

 

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Alvarez, A.  The New Poetry. Penguin, 1962.  

Scanlan, Margaret. Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction. Princeton UP, 1990.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Bacchilega, Cristina ,et.al. ed. Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale. Wayne: WSU, 1998.Print.
  • Bloom, Harold.ed. Dorrid Lessing. USA: Chelsea House, 2003.Print.
  • Frickey, Pierrette M. ed. Critical Perspectives of Jean Rhys. Pennsylvania: Three Continents Press, 1990.Print.
  • Greene, Gayle. Dorris Lessing: The Poetics of Change. Michigan: UOM, 1994.Print.
  • Weekes, Mark Kinkead. William Golding: A Critical Study. Harcourt: Bracer, 1968.Print.

                                                        

Academic Year: 
2019-2020