Contemporary British Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 614
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
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: 
A. Alvarez

Introduction to New Poetry

 

9.00
UNIT II: 
William Golding

Lord of the Flies

 

11.00
UNIT III: 
Doris Lessing

The Summer Before the Dark

 

6.00
UNIT IV: 
Angela Carter

Wise Children

 

10.00
UNIT V: 
Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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: 
2015-2016