Mulk Raj Anand : The Craft of Short Story Writing

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (c) - Option 7

Unit 1

The short story and its craft

 

Unit 2

The Indian story-telling traditions

 

Unit 3

Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – themes

 

Unit 4

Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – characterization

 

Unit 5

Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – narrative technique and                  structure

 

 

Source Books: 

Reading List

Stories from Anand, Mulk Raj. Greatest Short Stories. Mumbai: Jaico, 1999.

The Lost Child                                                                                      Lullaby                                                                                      

Lajwanti                                                                                                            The Cobbler and the Machine                                                                  

The Power of Darkness                                                                      

A Kashmir Idyll                                                                                  

A Pair of Mustachios                                                                          

The Liar                                                                                               

The Tamarind Tree                                                                             

              The Thief

Garimella, Annapurna (Editor). Mulk Raj Anand: Shaping the Indian       Modern. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 2005. 124pp.

Naik, M. K.(Ed.). “Introduction” to Mulk Raj Anand: Greatest Short Stories.

 

Ramanan, Mohan and P. Sailaja. English and the Indian Short Story. New         Delhi: Orient Longman, 2000.

Reid, Ian. The Short Story. (The Critical Idiom). London: Routledge, 197

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016