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”
  • “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, 1997

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017